Most highly motorized countries in the world have implemented different speed limits for light weight and heavy weight vehicles. The heavy vehicle speed limit is usually chosen to be lower than that of passenger cars due to the difficulty for the drivers to safely maneuver the heavy vehicle at high speed and greater impact during a crash. However, in many cases, the speed limit for heavy vehicl...

We present the theory, experimental results, and analytical modeling of high-speed CMOS switches, with a 2-D layout, suitable for the implementation of packet-switched free-space optoelectronic Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs). These switches are fully connected, bi-directional, and scaleable. The first design is a proof of concept of the half-switch, which is a two-to-one multiplexer...

Growth of a multitude of zinc oxide nanostructures has been achieved without the use of catalysts at atmospheric pressure in less than 10 minutes at low power (65WRF) in an inductive heating apparatus. Scanning electron microscopy shows an array of nanostructures including nanocrystals, tetrapods, telescopic tetrapods, and nanowires which do not appear to be terminated with a catalyst. X-ray di...

Spinning-disk interferometers are a new class of analytic sensors to detect immobilized biomolecules with high speed and high sensitivity. The disks are composed of a large number of surface-normal self-referencing interferometers, analogous to an optical CD, but operating on the principle of microdiffraction quadrature that achieves sensitive linear detection of bound molecules. The surface-no...

Multistage interconnection networks (MINs) can be used to construct electro-optic switches. To implement crosstalkfree switching in such a switch, two I/O connecting paths cannot share a common switching element (SE). Thus, a permutation must be decomposed into partial permutations, each being routed through the switch without crosstalk. It was shown that any permutation can be decomposed into ...

Interferometers can detect optical path changes down to a billionth-lambda at the half intensity point at quadrature, (defined when the signal and reference waves are out of phase by ninety degrees). We have fabricated interferometric microstructures on silicon all operating at quadrature. The ultimate capability of this approach is the fabrication of over a billion interferometric biosensors o...

In spite of several modified versions proposed, there is a huge demand for an efficient implementation of CORDIC in signal processing applications. Various methods proposed for CORDIC have their own drawbacks either in range of functionality or complexity. This paper presents speed optimized scale-free CORDIC in order to be mainly used in signal processing applications such as FFT and DCT etc.T...

Laplace operators on metric graphs give rise to Klein-Gordon and wave operators. Solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation and the wave equation are studied and finite propagation speed is established. Massive, free quantum fields are then constructed, whose commutator function is just the Klein-Gordon kernel. As a consequence of finite propagation speed Einstein causality (local commutativity) ho...

In this paper, a new MBE (modified Booth encoding) recoder, and a new MBE decoder are proposed in CMOS transistor level to improve the performance of traditional multipliers. The proposed pipelined Booth multiplier can reduce the delay time of the critical path by levelizing the complex gate in the MBE decoder. As a result, MBE decoder is no more the speed bottleneck of a pipelined booth multip...