0.1016/j.nanoen.2 lsevier Ltd. All rig uthor at: School a Institute of Tec . [email protected] Abstract Demonstrating integrated triboelectric nanogenerator energy harvesting systems that contain triboelectric nanogenerators, power management circuits, signal processing circuits, energy storage elements, and/or load circuits are core steps for practical applications of triboelectric nanogenerator...

One way to evolve new artificial lifeforms is to fuse existing forms in var ious ways . If one wishes for a new lifeform 's program to be the same size as each of it s parent pr ogram s, then one might take half of each parent program and pat ch the two halves together . T his method is typical of sexual repr oduction, and of the genet ic programming approach . A different meth od of crossbreed...

Interference alignment(IA) is mostly achieved by coding interference over multiple dimensions. Intuitively, the more interfering signals that need to be aligned, the larger the number of dimensions needed to align them. This dimensionality requirement poses a major challenge for IA in practical systems. This work evaluates the necessary and sufficient conditions on channel structure of a 3 user...

This paper describes a technique to reliably and securely identify individual integrated circuits (ICs) based on the precise measurement of circuit delays and a simple challenge–response protocol. This technique could be used to produce key-cards that are more difficult to clone than ones involving digital keys on the IC. We consider potential venues of attack against our system, and present ca...

The factors that determine whether immune complexes (IC) are cleared safely from the circulation or are deposited in vulnerable tissues such as glomeruli are not well defined. To better understand how IC are handled, the present study examined the fate in vivo of three model IC preparations with different immunochemical characteristics. Radiolabeled IC were constructed with murine IgG1, IgG2a, ...

Forensic microelectronics space age silicon science or barbarian bloodletting? Corporate lifesaving laser surgery or clumsy caveman carving to a slow death? Is our ability to diagnose a failing IC still in the stone age? At times it seems so, particularly when the production test data provides no more insight than a cryptic “FAIL” flag and the design provides no testability avenues. Despite rec...

The 555 timer IC was first introduced around 1971 by the Signetics Corporation as the SE555/NE555 and was called "The IC Time Machine" and was also the very first and only commercial timer IC available. It provided circuit designers with a relatively cheap, stable, and user-friendly integrated circuit for both monostable and astable applications. Since this device was first made commercially av...

Incrementally maintaining a qualitative understanding of physical system behavior based on observations is crucial to real-time process monitoring, diagnosis, and control. This paper describes the DATMI theory for dynamically maintaining a pinterp-spuce, a concise representation of the local and global interpretations consistent with observations over time. Each interpretation signifies an alte...

Surface micromachining has become an established technology for inertial sensing. Compatibility with standard IC fabrication processes enables monolithic integration of the sensing element and interface electronics for reduced size and power dissipation, simplified packaging, and increased functionality. The need to resolve sub-Angstrom displacements poses a challenge on the interface. Capaciti...