Building performance simulation is being increasingly deployed beyond the building design phase to support efficient building operation. Specifically, the predictive feature of the simulation-assisted building systems control strategy provides distinct advantages in view of building systems with high latency and inertia. Such advantages can be exploited only if model predictions can be relied u...

Thermal ablation is an interventional technique that promises to enable percutaneous treatment of many cancers and other disorders throughout the human body. Acoustic ablation offers the possibility of steering thermal energy electronically [1], and is known to be MRI compatible, and thus amenable to real-time thermal dose monitoring through MR thermometry. We propose a pneumatically actuated r...

A method based on thermal bistability for ultra-low threshold microlaser optimization is demonstrated. When sweeping the pump laser frequency across a pump resonance, the dynamic thermal bistability slows down the power variation. The resulting lineshape modification enables a real-time monitoring of the laser characteristic. We demonstrate this method for a functionalized microsphere exhibitin...

Thermal denaturation of chromatin is observed by simultaneously monitoring absorption and circular dichroism at 276 nm as functions of temperature. Either observation indicates that sheared chromatins shows less thermal stability than native chromatin. The temperature-dependent ellipticities at 276 nm of these chromatins show features not seen in the absorption curves: the ellipticity of unshea...

Dynamic thermal management (DTM) schemes rely on physical sensors to provide them with feedback to ensure an accurate and closed-loop throttling mechanism. Powerdensity trends in current-generation, high-performance processors motivate the need for multiple low-area, lowpower and high-sensitivity temperature monitoring circuits. To this end, we have proposed and implemented in 45nm CMOS, a nove...

This report describes our initial in vitro results with roboticallyassisted strain imaging for intraoperative monitoring of hepatic tumor thermal ablation. First, we demonstrate a strong correlation between thermal ablation of liver tissue and changes in elastic properties. Second, we present an experimental environment to provide controlled robotically-assisted compression of liver tissue with...