Successful implementation of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography depends on research and progress toward minimizing collector optics degradation from intense plasma erosion and debris deposition. Thus studying the surface degradation process and implementing innovative methods, which could enhance the surface chemistry causing the mirrors to suffer less damage, is crucial for this technology ...

The glp-1 gene is essential for two cell interactions that control cell fate in Caenorhabditis elegans: induction of anterior pharynx in the embryo and induction of mitotic proliferation in the germ line. To identify other genes involved in these cell interactions, we have isolated suppressors of two temperature sensitive alleles of glp-1. Each of 14 recessive suppressors rescues both embryonic...

A simple nervous system combined with stereotypic behavioral responses to tastants, together with powerful genetic and molecular tools, have turned Drosophila larvae into a very promising model for studying gustatory coding. Using the Gal4/UAS system and confocal microscopy for visualizing gustatory afferents, we provide a description of the primary taste center in the larval central nervous sy...

We report the realization of an acoustic capacitive microphone formed by graphene/poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). It is first time that ultra-large graphene/PMMA membrane suspended fully over cavity has been fabricated releasing silicon dioxide sacrificial layer underneath membrane. The novelty in fabrication method etched hydrogen fluoride vapor from back partly substrate. Using new process,...

In this paper we describe a rst hardware realisation of a block-based disparity estimator which is suitable for real time applications with video speed. Since the quality of the calculated raw disparity elds will be rather poor, postprocessing steps are needed, but this is considered as a separate step. The circuit is implemented as an Application Speciic Integrated Circuit (ASIC) on a CMOS Sea...