Liquid-phase operation of resonant cantilevers vibrating in an out-of-plane flexural mode has to date been limited by the considerable fluid damping and the resulting low quality factors (Q factors). To reduce fluid damping in liquids and to improve the detection limit for liquid-phase sensing applications, resonant cantilever transducers vibrating in their in-plane rather than their out-of-pla...

We extend our previous work on the quasi-particle excitations in N = 4 non-commutative U(1) Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature. We show that above some critical temperature there is a tachyon in the spectrum of excitations. It is a collective transverse photon mode polarized in the non-commutative plane. Thus the theory seems to undergo a phase transition at high temperature. Furthermore w...

This paper describes a 158 MS/s JPEG 2000 codec with an embedded block coder (EBC) based on a bit-plane and pass-parallel architecture. The EBC contains bit-plane coders (BPCs) corresponding to each bit-plane in a codeblock. An upper BPC transfers significance states and sign bits to a lower BPC via a first-in-first-out buffer (FIFO) to synchronize BPCs themselves. The upper and the lower bit-p...

In many real-world OpenFlow-based SDN deployments, the ability to program heterogeneous forwarding elements built with different forwarding architectures is a desirable capability. In this paper, we discuss a data plane programming framework suitable for a flexible and protocol-oblivious data plane and show how OpenFlow can evolve to provide a generic interface for platform-independentprogrammi...

The space-domain integral equation method using the generalized scattering matrix description of microwave passive circuits is employed to investigate the mode conversion of a CBCPW open-end discontinuity with unequal side plane widths. The conversion into two additional dominant modes, the c-modelike mode and the -mode-like mode, and into the transmitted microstrip mode from an incident CPW mo...

The initial stage of fretting fatigue crack growth is significantly influenced by tangential force induced by fretting action along the contact surface where a mixed-mode crack growth is involved. Fretting crack behavior of aluminum alloy 2024 was studied, taking into account the problem of contact asperities. Finite element was used for the determination of the stress field near the contact su...

the effect of axial deformation of shell particles on the dynamic instability (flutter) of cantilevered cylindrical shells made of functionally graded materials (fgm) under an end axial follower force is addressed. to this end, at first, results for free vibration of fgm cylindrical shells were verified with previous outcomes and they were in very good agreement. then, the effect of axial defor...

In this paper, modal-interaction phenomena on guided-wave structures are investigated using the theory of critical and singular points. It has been previously shown that classical mode coupling is controlled by the functional characteristics of the dispersion equation in the vicinity of a Morse critical point (MCP), which is real valued for typical structures in the lossless case. The purpose o...