Penetration of a nanochannel mask by 190keV Co + ions is tested for the purpose of achieving laterally modulated ion implantation into a SiO2 thin film on a Si substrate. A 2Dnanoporous membrane of anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) is chosen as the mask. Criteria and challenges for designing the mask are presented. Implantation experiments through a mask with pore diameter of 125 nm and inter-pore di...

Sub-wavelength lithography places a serious limitation on the conventional ”thin mask” approximation of the field immediately behind the patterned mask. This approximation fails to account for the increasingly important topographical effects of the mask or ”thick mask” effects. This approximation of the photomask near-fields results from the direct application of Kirchhoff Boundary Conditions, ...

Recently, a set of generalized gradient-based optical proximity correction (OPC) optimization methods have been developed to solve for the forward and inverse lithography problems under the thin-mask assumption, where the mask is considered a thin 2D object. However, as the critical dimension printed on the wafer shrinks into the subwavelength regime, thick-mask effects become prevalent, and th...

We present a comparison of three different technologies for the fabrication of microoptical elements with arbitrary surfaces. We used direct laser writing, binary mask lithography in combination with reactive ion etching, and graytone lithography.

In this paper, we propose an application of a compressive imaging system to the problem of wide-area video surveillance systems. A parallel coded aperture compressive imaging system is proposed to reduce the needed high resolution coded mask requirements and facilitate the storage of the projection matrix. Random Gaussian, Toeplitz and binary phase coded masks are utilized to obtain the compre...

The paper describes a method for binary 2D and 3D object methamorphosis using a normalized morphological interpolation function and a mask. Comparing with the existing methods the proposed one has two important advantages: the normalization of the interpolation function and the new formulation of the interpolator. The first one allows obtaining steady and smooth transfomation of the area (volum...

We present some novel tools for the analysis of bluenoise binary patterns. Unlike most of the existing methods that evaluate the frequency content of a given mask or its lower order statistics, our new metrics characterize the morphological content of a mask that is quantified using simple one-pass filtering. An analytical filter expression is given. As a result, one can balance the structural ...

Consonant recognition was assessed following extraction of speech from noise using a more efficient version of the speech-segregation algorithm described in Healy, Yoho, Wang, and Wang [(2013) J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 134, 3029-3038]. Substantial increases in recognition were observed following algorithm processing, which were significantly larger for hearing-impaired (HI) than for normal-hearing (N...

The development of intelligent technology has also made rapid progress in relevant speech fields. In order to increase the application scenarios recognition systems, research improved traditional Speech enhancement algorithm, namely Ideal Binary Mask (IBM) and combined it with unimproved IBM algorithm propose an adaptive algorithm. Based on this built a new system, system uses FIR filter realiz...

The problem of single channel speaker separation, attempts to extract a speech signal uttered by the speaker of interest from a signal containing a mixture of auditory signals. Most algorithms that deal with this problem, are based on masking, where reliable components from the mixed signal spectrogram are inversed to obtain the speech signal from speaker of interest. As of now, most techniques...