A new broadband in-phase power divider based on multilayer technology is presented. A simple design procedure is developed for the proposed multilayer power divider. An S-band four-way multilayer power divider was designed and measured. The simulated results are compared with the measured data, and good agreement is reported. The measured 15 dB return loss bandwidth is demonstrated to be about ...

Measurement Validity Types Idea of Construct Validity Convergent & Discriminant Validity Threats to Construct Validity The Nomological Network The Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix Pattern Matching for Construct Validity Construct validity refers to the degree to which inferences can legitimately be made from the operationalizations in your study to the theoretical constructs on which those operati...

Metal–dielectric multilayer metamaterials with extreme loss-anisotropy, in which the longitudinal component of the permittivity tensor has an ultra-large imaginary part, are proposed and designed. Diffraction-free deep subwavelength beam propagation and manipulation, due to the nearly flat iso-frequency contour, is demonstrated in such loss-anisotropic metamaterials. It is also shown that deep ...

To construct sophisticated biochemical circuits from scratch, one needs to understand how simple the building blocks can be and how robustly such circuits can scale up. Using a simple DNA reaction mechanism based on a reversible strand displacement process, we experimentally demonstrated several digital logic circuits, culminating in a four-bit square-root circuit that comprises 130 DNA strands...

In this paper, we study the use of boosted weak classifiers selected with AdaBoost algorithm in object detection. Our work is motivated by the good performance of AdaBoost in selecting discriminative features and the effectiveness of Classification and Regression Tree (CART) compared with other classification methods. First, we study the cascaded structure of the boosted weak classifier detecto...

This paper proposes a reinforcement fuzzy adaptive learning control network (RFALCON), constructed by integrating two fuzzy adaptive learning control networks (FALCON), each of which has a feedforward multilayer network and is developed for the realization of a fuzzy controller. One FALCON performs as a critic network (fuzzy predictor), the other as an action network (fuzzy controller). Using t...

A design concept, device layout, and monolithic microfabrication processing sequence have been developed for a dual-metal layer atom chip for next-generation positional control of ultracold ensembles of trapped atoms. Atom chips are intriguing systems for precision metrology and quantum information that use ultracold atoms on microfabricated chips. Using magnetic fields generated by current car...

Thin polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) films are frequently used in "lab on a chip" devices as flexible membranes. The common solvent used to dilute the PDMS for thin films is hexane, but hexane can swell the underlying PDMS substrate. A better solvent would be one that dissolves uncured PDMS but doesn't swell the underlying substrate. Here, we present protocols and spin curves for two alternatives t...