A thin-film InGaAs/GaAs edge-emitting single-quantum-well laser has been integrated with a tapered multimode SU-8 waveguide onto an Si substrate. The SU-8 waveguide is passively aligned to the laser using mask-based photolithography, mimicking electrical interconnection in Si complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, and overlaps one facet of the thin-film laser for coupling power from the laser...

We present a technique for converting continuous gray-scale images to halftone (black and white) images that lend themselves to lossless data compression with compression factor of three or better. Our method involves using novel halftone mask structures which consist of non-repeated threshold values. We have versions of both dispersed-dot and clustered-dot masks, which produce acceptable image...

Large area patterned boron nanocones with low turn-on electric field of 2.8 V microm(-1) and low threshold electric field of 3.8 V microm(-1) were synthesized by a pre-manipulation to pattern the catalyst with a grid template as mask. The good field emission performance of patterned boron nanocones arise from the decreased screening effect and a favorable orientation of the nanocones. These res...

This paper presents a very simple methodology for determining the effective channel length and width, which is independent of the determination of the threshold voltage. The procedure is based on measurement of the transconductance-to-current ratio (gm/ID) characteristic of the MOSFET in the linear region, from weak to moderate inversion. For the extraction of both the effective channel length ...

results in the i-gel group, the success rate was 66.7% for placement on the first attempt, 16.7% for the second, and 3.33% for the third attempt. in the lma group, the success rates were 80.6% and 12.9% for the first and second attempts, respectively. failure in placement occurred in four cases in the i-gel and two cases in lma groups. the mean insertion time was not significantly different bet...

results sore throat was recorded in 32.9% of patients with lma and 44.2% of intubated patients, but it was not statistically significant (fisher’s exact test = 0.158). hoarseness was recorded in 3.5% of patients with lma and 24.4% of intubated patients (fisher’s exact test = 0.000). in 1.2% of patients with lma cough was recorded; it was also seen in 7% of the intubated patients (fisher’s exact...

Figure 1 shows an example of a light field camera with a pinhole mask in front of the sensor. If we look at the sensor in 1D and assume an total x-resolution of 900 pixels and a Θ resolution of 9, the local x resolution is 100. The disadvantages are therefore a loss in resolution and a loss of light, as most of the light gets blocked by the mask. Therefore, while this model is very clean on a t...

[1] Understanding the history of ice caps on Mars could reveal important information about Martian geologic and climatic history. To do this, an ice reconstruction model is needed that operates over complex topography and can be constrained with a limited number of free parameters. In this study we developed a threshold-sliding model for ice cap morphology based on the classic model of Nye late...

In the present study, we examined whether perceptual learning methods can be used to improve performance of older individuals. Subjects performed a texture discrimination task in the peripheral visual field and a letter discrimination task in central vision. The SOA threshold was derived by presenting a mask following the stimuli. Older subjects (age greater than 65 years) were either trained f...