A Comparison of Capacitive and Active Array Based Human Fingerprint Readers This paper addresses relative aspects of the two currently available all-solid-state technology solutions to the digital fingerprint identification problem. In the body of this report passing mention is made of some other approaches, and a very brief summary of the whole biometric technology set can be found in APPENDIX...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) composed of multiple flash memory chips are often deployed as a cache in front of a cheap and slow disks [5, 2, 7]. This provides the performance of flash with the cost of disk for large data sets, and is actively used by Facebook and others to provide low-latency access to petabytes of data [3]. An SSD-backed cache, though, is limited by its narrow block interface and...

Irradiation of biphenyl encapsulated in the cavities of a NaZSM-5 zeolite framework has been reported to result in the formation of an extremely long-lived radical cation. Here, we show that such zeolite encapsulated radical cations can act as irreversible one-electron oxidants for simple alkenes and dienes, in a solid-state analogue to solution-phase cosensitization. Compared to the well-known...

We demonstrated nanoscale solid-state thermal rectification. High-thermal-conductivity carbon and boron nitride nanotubes were mass-loaded externally and inhomogeneously with heavy molecules. The resulting nanoscale system yields asymmetric axial thermal conductance with greater heat flow in the direction of decreasing mass density. The effect cannot be explained by ordinary perturbative wave t...

By definition, solid state is that particular aggregation form of matter characterized by strong interaction forces between constituent particles (atoms, ions, or molecules). As a result, a solid state material has an independent geometric form (in contrast to liquids, which take the form of the container) and an invariant volume (in contrast to gases/vapors) in given temperature and pressure c...

Aman Aggarwal, Hari Singh, Pradeep Kumar & Manmohan Singh Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Rohini, Delhi 110 085, India Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra 136 119, India Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 247 267, India. Solid State P...

A very detailed 2D-solid finite element model is developed representing the load carrying box girder of a wind turbine blade. Using typical geometrical values for the girder dimensions and public available material data, the overall cross-sectional behaviour is analysed for a simple compressive line load. The results are compared with result from similar shell models, which typically are used f...