We design a novel long-range hybrid wedge plasmonic (LRHWP) waveguide composed of two identical dielectric nanowires symmetrically placed on two opposed wedges of a diamond shaped metal wire. With strong coupling between the dielectric nanowire mode and long-range surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode, both deep subwavelength mode confinement and low propagation loss are achieved. On one hand, w...

This paper investigates the simulation of a hybrid desalination system composed of multi-effect evaporation with thermal vapour compression desalination (METVC) and reverse osmosis (RO) plant. The hybrid desalination system is also integrated with a gas turbine power plant through a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). First, a comprehensive Thermodynamic model for HRSG, METVC, and RO are deve...

Abstract In this paper a promising novel output voltage filtering concept for multi-cell switch-mode power amplifiers is analyzed. The proposed hybrid filtering concept is based on a passive LC filter enhanced by a linear-mode correction stage of small rated power. Using this principle, also "sub-harmonic" (i.e. low-frequency) switching noise distortions (typically appearing in real interleaved...

We present evidence for the existence of a hybrid state of Tamm plasmons and microcavity exciton polaritons in a II-VI material based microcavity sample covered with an Ag metal layer. The bare cavity mode shows a characteristic anticrossing with the Tamm-plasmon mode, when microreflectivity measurements are performed for different detunings between the Tamm plasmon and the cavity mode. When th...

We first derive the mass sum rules for the heavy hybrid mesons to obtain the binding energy and decay constants in the leading order of heavy quark effective theory. The pionic couplings between the lightest 1−+ hybrid (Qq̄g) and the lowest three heavy meson doublets are calculated with the light cone QCD sum rules. With SUf (3) flavor symmetry we calculate the widths for all the possible two-bo...

For many real-world systems, which exhibit complex, nonlinear, and hybrid behavior, it is important to accurately track and monitor the state and health of these systems. The continuous state estimation problem has been well studied, and a number of extensions of the Kalman filter to nonlinear systems have been proposed. Hybrid state estimation poses an additional challenge, because the model m...

A plasma-loaded sheath helix supports lower hybrid modes that extend to the outside vacuum region. The phase velocity of the mode is significantly retarded by the presence of the sheath helix, making it liable to excitation by a low-energy electron beam. The extent of the mode outside the plasma is also reduced by the helix. An analysis of lower hybrid mode excitation by a beam propagating in t...

We show that the coupled mode equations for the stationary propagation of upper–hybrid and magnetoacoustic waves in magnetized electron–ion plasmas with negative group dispersion can be exactly derived from the generalized Hénon–Heiles Hamiltonian. The parameter regimes for the integrable cases of the coupled mode equations have been explicitly obtained. For positive group dispersion of the upp...

By utilizing a racetrack resonator topography, an on-chip mode locked silicon evanescent laser (ML-SEL) is realized that is independent of facet polishing. This enables integration with other devices on silicon and precise control of the ML-SEL's repetition rate through lithographic definition of the cavity length. Both passive and hybrid mode-locking have been achieved with transform limited, ...

Innovative methods have been developed for diagnosis, activity monitoring, and state estimation that achieve high accuracy through the use of stochastic models involving hybrid discrete and continuous behaviors. A key bottleneck is the automated acquisition of these hybrid models, and recent methods have focused predominantly on Jump Markov processes and piecewise autoregressive models. In this...