An oscillatory microstructure has been observed during deep-cellular growth of directionally solidified Sn-36at.%Ni hyperperitectic alloy containing intermetallic compounds with narrow solubility range. This oscillatory microstructure with a dimension of tens of micrometers has been observed for the first time. The morphology of this wave-like oscillatory structure is similar to secondary dendr...

• good electrical conductivity (>100 S cm 1 bulk conductivity), • high thermal conductivity (>20 W cm ), • high chemical and corrosion resistance, • mechanical stability toward compression forces, • low permeability for hydrogen, • low-cost material being processable with mass production techniques, • low weight and volume, and • recyclable materials. Two different kinds of materials have been ...

A typical MCP consists of about 10,000,000 closely packed channels of common diameter which are formed by drawing, etching, or firing in hydrogen, a lead glass matrix. Typically, the diameter of each channel is ~ 10 microns. Each channel acts as an independent, continuous dinode photomultiplier. In astronomy, and in the many other fields that use MCPs, the detectors are generally used for disto...

This paper is about robots that autonomously learn how to interpret their environment through use. Specifically, robot perception is improved with every outing through effortless human assistance. This is made possible by the fact that robots operate repeatedly in specific application domains. Our approach, which we call Experience-Based Classification (EBC), is similar in spirit to the concept...

This paper proposes a new method for shape invariant realtime modification of speech signals. The method can be understood as a frequency domain SOLA algorithm that is using the phase vocoder algorithm for phase synchronization. Compared to time domain SOLA the new implementation provides improved time synchronization during overlap add and improved quality of the noise components of the transf...

in this paper, we develop two piecewise polynomial methods for the numerical evaluation of cauchy principal value integrals of oscillatory kind. the two piecewisepolynomial quadratures are compact, easy to implement, and are numerically stable. two numerical examples are presented to illustrate the two rules developed, the convergence of the two schemes is proved and some error bounds obtained,