We design, fabricate and characterize a CMOS-compatible, Mach-Zehnder-coupled, second-order-microring-resonator filter with large Free Spectral Range and demonstrate non-blocking thermo-optical filter reconfiguration. The device consists of 10-μm radius silicon microring resonators, with an FSR equivalent to that of a structure consisting of 5-μm radii microrings. The structure is reconfigurabl...

Echo state networks are a powerful type of reservoir neural network, but the reservoir is essentially unrestricted in its original formulation. Motivated by limitations in neuromorphic hardware, we remove combinations of the four sources of memory—leaking, loops, cycles, and discrete time—to determine how these influence the suitability of the reservoir. We show that loops and cycles can replic...

OBJECTIVES Physical activity may be constrained or facilitated by local environments. The availability of neighborhood facilities for physical activity may be particularly relevant for youth, who are unable to drive and whose activity is often limited to the immediate distance they are able to walk or bicycle. Several studies have shown that proximity to recreational facilities and parks is one...

This work presents a simple model of via-hole using electromagnetic field solver. Equivalent model parameters on Si are found out at Ka-band. Proposed single via-hole model has been compared with theoretical published data. The effect of viahole radius and substrate height at Ka-band frequencies has been studied. Further, S-parameter analysis and comparison for multiple vias at two different fr...

We describe a generalized Levenberg-Marquardt method for computing critical points of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional which models superconductivity. The algorithm is a blend of a Newton iteration with a Sobolev gradient descent method, and is equivalent to a trust-region method in which the trustregion radius is defined by a Sobolev metric. Numerical test results demonstrate the method t...

An algorithm is presented to fit precipitates in atom probe tomographic data sets as equivalent ellipsoids. Unlike previous techniques, which measure only the radius of gyration, these ellipsoids retain the moments of inertia and principle axes of the original precipitate, preserving crystallographic orientational information. The algorithm is applied to study interconnected γ-precipitates (L12...

We show that a-parabolic Harnack inequality for random walks on graphs is equivalent, on one hand, to so called-Gaussian estimates for the transition probability and, on the other hand, to the conjunction of the elliptic Harnack inequality, the doubling volume property, and the fact that the mean exit time in any ball of radius R is of the order R. The latter condition can be replaced by a cert...

In this paper, empirical relations for the evaluation of both the resonant frequency fr and the quality factor Q for the dominant TM010 mode of a circular substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity resonator are proposed and validated. These formulas are based on well established analytical expressions valid for the case of circular metallic cavity resonator, in which an equivalent radius Req ...

For the numerical tests, we consider a disk with radius 2 at distance of 3 from the origin. We also consider different rotations of the disk over its center, so it forms an angle θ with the direction to the origin. Specifically, we consider the rotation from 0 to π/2 radians, since due to symmetry all the other possible rotations are equivalent. The computed values are collected in Table S1, wh...

We propose to use periodically spaced, curved optical waveguides for observation of optical Bloch oscillations. The refractive index distribution in this system is equivalent to the sum of a periodic term resulting from the equal spacing of the waveguides and a linear ramp, created by the curvature. We demonstrate numerically that light propagation in this geometry exhibits spatial Bloch oscill...