MEMS is the acronym for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems. Micromachining has potential applications for large area image sensors and displays, but conventional MEMS technology, based on crystalline silicon wafers cannot be used. Instead, large area devices use deposited films on glass substrates. This presents many challenges for MEMS, both as regards materials for micro-machined structures and...

MEMS-based storage is one of the leading candidates as tomorrow’s storage medium due to its salient characteristics such as high-parallelism, high density, and low-power consumption. Because physical structures of MEMS-based storage is different from those of hard disks, new software management techniques for MEMS-based storage are needed. Specifically, MEMS-based storage has thousands of paral...

Fingerprint has continued to enjoy dominance over other biometrics like face, iris, nose, signature among others in human verification and authentication. This is promoted by its major characteristics which include availability, uniqueness, consistency and reliability. Fingerprint verification and authentication involves the serial stages of enrolment, processing and matching. Enrolment through...

The expending development of wireless communication requires strong demands for components with improved capabilities. RF MEMS devices offer a variable alternative to conventional communication components because they consume less DC power, have lower losses, higher linearity and higher Q factor. However, the commercialization of RF MEMS devices is hindered by technological issues such as their...

MEMS-based storage devices are a new technology that is significantly different from both disk drives and semiconductor memories. These differences motivate the question of whether they need new abstractions to be utilized by systems, or if existing abstractions will work well. This paper addresses this question by examining the fundamental reasons that the abstraction works for existing system...

Although Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are forming the basis for a rapidly growing industry and fields of research, many MEMS designers still rely on backof-the-envelope calculations due to a lack of efficient computer-aided design (CAD) tools that can assist with the initial stages of design exploration. This paper introduces case-based reasoning (CBR) techniques to the design of MEM...

ÐFingerprint identification is based on two basic premises: 1) persistence: the basic characteristics of fingerprints do not change with time and 2) individuality: the fingerprint is unique to an individual. The validity of the first premise has been established by the anatomy and morphogenesis of friction ridge skin. While the second premise has been generally accepted to be true based on empi...

Fingerprint images vary in quality. In order to ensure that the performance of an automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) will be robust with respect to the quality of input fingerprint images, it is essential to incorporate a fingerprint enhancement module in the AFIS system. In this paper, we introduce a new fingerprint enhancement algorithm which decomposes the input fingerprint i...

We theoretically investigate a practically realizable Floquet topological superconductor model based on one-dimensional Rashba nanowire and proximity-induced $s$-wave superconductivity in the presence of Zeeman field. The driven system hosts regular 0-Majorana end modes anomalous $\ensuremath{\pi}$-Majorana (MEMs). By tuning chemical potential frequency drive, we illustrate generation multiple ...