A silicon nitride based waveguide device is presented for the detection of light backscattered from liquids. The device is composed of a source waveguide and a series of collector waveguides displaced relatively to the source. The experimental result shows that detection of photons backscattered from the interior of a droplet in direct surface contact with source and detector waveguides is feas...

The testing of oral fluid for drugs of abuse has increased significantly over recent years and is now commonplace in drug rehabilitation clinics, the workplace, prisons and custody suites. The global problem of identifying drugged drivers has also led to an increase in oral fluid testing at the roadside. The main requirements for the implementation of roadside drug testing are a rapid sample co...

It is shown that magnetic bipolar transistors can amplify currents even in the saturation regime, in which both the emitter–base and collector–base junctions are forward biased. The collector current and the current gain can change sign as they depend on the relative orientation of the equilibrium spin in the base and on the nonequilibrium spin in the emitter and collector. The predicted phenom...

We report the first realization of a charge injection transistor with a complementary collector. The device is implemented using InGaAs/InAlAs/InGaAs heterostructure material grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Real space transfer of hot electrons into the p-type collector leads to a luminescence signal arising from the recombination of the injected electrons with holes in the collector active reg...

In this paper, a new solar-heated generation system with capacity of 10kW is designed. The system is based on solar-heated Rankine cycle. The CPC solar energy collector array is used as the main heat source, and the gas boiler as the assistant heat source. The heat storage facility provides heat for put-off 24 hours generating without sun’s radiation. The paper is focused on the analysis of fou...

We expand an acyclic distributed garbage collector (the cleanup protocol of Stub-Scion Pair Chains) with a detector of distributed cycles of garbage. The whole result is as a complete and asynchronous distributed garbage collector. The detection algorithm for free distributed cycles is inspired by Hughes 5]. A local collector marks outgoing references with dates, which are propagated asynchrono...

Decrease in the time interval between the first node death and the last node death, due to the completion of their energy supply, is the main goal of load-balancing methods in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). This paper proposes a Load-Balancing Enhancement (LBE) method, in WSN. LBE method uses a mobile data collector to data gathering from sensor nodes. The mobile data collector can directly co...

We demonstrate a mesoscopic spin polarizer/analyzer system that allows the spin polarization of current from a quantum point contact in a large in-plane magnetic field to be measured. A transverse electron focusing geometry is used to couple current from an emitter point contact into a collector point contact. At large in-plane fields, with the point contacts biased to transmit only a single sp...

We show the difficulties that arise for the implementation of a real-time garbage collector in a multi-threaded system. A mechanism for synchronization between threads and the garbage collector activities is proposed for a single processor system. It is shown how this mechanism can be used to maintain exact information on roots, to implement efficient write-barriers, to do incremental or even c...

A new garbage collection algorithm for distributed object systems, called DMOS (Distributed Mature Object Space), is presented. It is derived from two previous algorithms, MOS (Mature Object Space), sometimes called the train algorithm, and PMOS (Persistent Mature Object Space). The contribution of DMOS is that it provides the following unique combination of properties for a distributed collect...