A technique for implementing monolithic resistors with a desired temperature coefficient (TC) over a wide temperature range is introduced. A typical monolithic resistor consists of a core resistive layer terminated with contact layers on each end. In a typical process, there are core resistive layers that have TCs with opposite sign of that of the contacts. The authors propose to take advantage...

Lensed fiber optics is of great importance to many applications such as optical sensing, optical coupling, laser trapping etc. In this paper we have demonstrated a unique method to fabricate liquid-core lensed fibers by filling UV curable adhesive into hollow fibers, and to control the focal length and spot size by pumping liquid into or out of the fiber end. In experiment, tuning of focal leng...

We present a 10-bit 1-MS/s successive approximation analog-to-digital converter core including a charge redistribution digitalto-analog converter and a comparator. A new linearity calibration technique enables use of a nearly minimum capacitor limited by kT/C noise. The ADC core without digital control blocks has been fabricated in a 0.18μm CMOS process and consumes 118 μW at 1.8 V power supply...

A Multiple Structural Alignment algorithm is presented. The algorithm accepts an ensemble of protein structures and finds the largest substructure (core) of C alpha atoms whose geometric configuration appear in all the molecules of the ensemble (core). Both the detection of this core and the resulting structural alignment are done simultaneously. Other large enough multistructural superimpositi...

In this paper, we address the issue of providing differentiated services to IP packets over an optical burst-switched network. QoS is supported by introducing prioritized contention resolution policies in the network core and a new burst assembly technique at the network edge. In the core, contention is resolved through prioritized burst segmentation and prioritized deflection. The burst segmen...

The gas-filled hollow-core fiber compression and the optical filamentation technique are compared experimentally in a parameter regime suitable for intense few-cycle pulse generation. In particular, pointing stability, spectral properties, and spatial chirp are investigated. It is found that in the case of filamentation, the critical parameter for pointing stability is gas pressure inside the g...

Watermarking represents a potentially effective tool for the protection and verification of ownership rights in remote sensing images. Multispectral images (MSIs) are the main type of images acquired by remote sensing radiometers. In this paper, a robust multispectral image watermarking technique based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the tucker decomposition (TD) is proposed. The co...

Current clustering techniques are able to identify arbitrarily shaped clusters in the presence of noise, but depend on carefully chosen model parameters. The choice of model parameters is difficult: it depends on the data and the clustering technique at hand, and finding good model parameters often requires time consuming human interaction. In this paper we propose CORE, a new nonparametric clu...

objectives: this study aimed to assess and compare the apical sealing ability of herofill® soft-core system and lateral condensation technique in fine curved canals using the fluid filtration method. materials and methods: forty human mesiobuccal root canals of mandibular first molars with 25° to 40° curvatures were instrumented to an apical size 30/0.04. roots were randomly assigned to two exp...