Communication abilities of a wireless network decrease significantly in the presence of a jammer. This paper presents a reactive technique, to detect and locate the position of a jammer using a distributed collection of wireless sensor devices. We employ the theory of autonomic computing as a framework to design the same. Upon detection of a jammer, the affected nodes self-configure their power...

Maximizing DNA recovery during its isolation can be vital in forensic casework, particularly when DNA yields are expected to be low, such as from touch samples. Many forensic laboratories utilize centrifugal filtration devices to purify and concentrate the DNA; however, DNA loss has been reported when using them. In this study, all centrifugal filtration devices tested caused substantial DNA lo...

Determining orientation with respect to a known reference plays an important role in almost all modes of navigation. As the sensors required for measuring magnetic field have found their way into portable navigation devices, researchers have started investigating their application to orientation estimation in different environments. Nevertheless, the success of these sensors for orientation est...

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Current devices for EUV lithography combine both laser and discharge physics to achieve sufficient brightness with minimum debris generation to support the throughput requirements of High-Volume Manufacturing (HVM) lithography exposure tools with long lifetime. Source performance, Debris mitigation, and reflector system are critical to efficient EUV collection and component lifetime. Integrated...

Field Programmable Gate Array devices have become the technology of choice in small volume modern instrumentation and control systems. These devices have always offered significant advantages in flexibility, and recent advances in fabrication have greatly increased logic capacity, substantially increasing the number of applications for this technology. Unfortunately, the increased density (and ...

Low-loss superconducting rf devices are required when used for quantum computation. Here, we present a series of measurements and simulations showing that conducting losses in the packaging our resonator affect maximum achievable internal quality factors (Qi) thin-film Al quarter-wave resonators with fundamental resonant frequencies varying between 4.9 5.8 GHz. By utilizing different widths gap...

Optoelectronic devices, such as solar cells and light-emitting diodes, well transparent electronic rely on efficient light–matter interactions usually require top electrodes that are deposited onto a device layer stack. Magnetron sputtering, established in the coating industry, is most common technique to deposit materials. Nevertheless, this process may result irreversible damage underlying se...

Wearable devices have recently become popular, and more and more people now buy and wear these devices to obtain health-related services. However, as wearable device technology quickly advances, its security cannot keep up with the speed of its development. As a result, it is highly likely for the devices to have severe vulnerabilities. Moreover, because these wearable devices are usually light...

Significance Part 7 – Mitigation Techniques This paper is a condensed version, presented to an international audience, of the IEEE IAS Transactions, " Matching surge-protective devices to their environment " which is reproduced in Part 7 of the Anthology under the hyperllink " Matching environment " .