The standard platform for silicon photonics has been ridge or channel waveguides fabricated on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. SOI waveguides are so versatile and the technology built around it is so mature and popular that silicon photonics is almost regarded as synonymous with SOI photonics. However, due to several shortcomings of SOI photonics, novel platforms have been recently emerging....

Recommender systems help users to cope with information overload and have become one of the most powerful and popular tools in electronic commerce. In order to provide better recommendations and to be able to use recommender systems in arguably more complex types of applications, most of the typical used approaches need significant extensions. On the video recommendation domain, one of these ex...

We study intragap bound states in the topological phase of a Rashba nanowire in the presence of a magnetic field and with non-uniform spin orbit interaction (SOI) and proximity-induced superconductivity gap. We show that fermionic bound states (FBS) can emerge inside the proximity gap. They are localized at the junction between two wire sections characterized by different directions of the SOI ...

The impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the Antarctic region are of special importance in evaluating the variability and change of the climate system in high southern latitudes. In this study, the ENSO signal in modeled precipitation over West Antarctica since 1979 is evaluated using forecast precipitation from several meteorological analyses and reanalyses. Additionally, a dy...

Smart cards have been commercial products for 15 years, but they have only found use in a broad range of applications in the past few years. Most early applications, such as prepaid phone cards, used memory cards with access logic. Adding a CPU to the card enhanced the security and paved the way for more possibilities: subscriber identification module (SIM) cards in cellular phones, banking car...

In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-centralized Cooperative Localization (CL) under severe communication constraints, i.e., when each robot can communicate only a single bit per real-valued (analog) measurement. Existing approaches, such as those based on the Sign-of-Innovation Kalman filter (SOI-KF) and its variants, require each robot to process quantized versions of both its loca...

A high-sensitivity Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) biochemical sensing platform based on Silicon-in-insulator (SOI) rib waveguide with large cross section is proposed in this paper. Based on the analyses of the evanescent field intensity, the mode polarization and cross section dimensions of the SOI rib waveguide are optimized through finite difference method (FDM) simulation. To realize high...

The High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) technology has become the keystone to reduce gate leakage and enable the continuous scaling of transistors towards 32nm node and beyond. However, the reduction of gate leakage in 32nm HKMG PD (Partially Depleted)-SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator) CMOS (Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor) inevitably changes the modeling methods for gate current, floating body effect, a...

Magnetic transport of holes in Ge/Si core/shell nanowires (NWs) is investigated under the control of dual electrical gating. The strength of the spin–orbit interaction (SOI) is analyzed from the weak-antilocalization (WAL) of the magnetoconductance (MC) as a function of a perpendicular magnetic field. By superimposing a small alternating signal on the voltage offset of both gates the universal ...

Enhanced third harmonic (TH) generation from Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) planar waveguides as well as SOI photonic crystal (PhC) slabs is studied in different angular configurations, both in the visible and infrared energy ranges. In the SOI planar waveguide, the multilayer structure causes the optical properties such as TH reflection to be different from those of bulk silicon samples. This beha...