We use a phase-changing metal alloy to reversibly tune the elastic rigidity of an elastomer composite. The elastomer is embedded with a sheet of low-melting-point Field’s metal and an electric Joule heater composed of a serpentine channel of liquid-phase gallium–indium–tin (Galinstan R ) alloy. At room temperature, the embedded Field’s metal is solid and the composite remains elastically rigid....

In this paper, we propose a new coding scheme for the general relay channel. This coding scheme is in the form of a block Markov code. The transmitter uses a superposition Markov code. The relay compresses the received signal and maps the compressed version of the received signal into a codeword conditioned on the codeword of the previous block. The receiver performs joint decoding after it has...

This paper introduces a new color image superresolution algorithm in an adaptive, robust M-estimation framework. Using a robust error norm in the objective function, and adapting the estimation process to each of the low-resolution frames, the proposed method effectively suppresses the outliers due to violations of the assumed observation model, and results in color superresolution estimates wi...

We investigate the fluctuations induced by time-dependent interchange between the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer and Bose–Einstein condensation regimes in the ultracold gas of fermion atoms. Such crossover can be triggered by varying the external magnetic field across the Feshbach resonance. Experimental realization is usually done via very fast switching which leads to the nonequilibrium effects. I...

The present study highlights the interdependence of ambient humidity levels on the electrical parameters of organic-inorganic hybrid composite based humidity sensor at varied AC frequencies of input signal. Starting from the bottom, the layer stack of the fabricated humidity sensor was 200-nm silver (Ag) thin film and 4 μm spun-coated PEPC+NiPC+Cu2O active layer. Silver thin films were deposite...

In the field of electronic gas sensing, low-dimensional semiconductors such as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can offer high detection sensitivity owing to their unprecedentedly large surface-to-volume ratio. The sensitivity and responsivity can further improve by increasing their areal density. Here, an accelerated gas adsorption is demonstrated by exploiting volumetric effects via di...

—The model of Composite Fermions for describing interacting electrons in two dimensions in the presence of a magnetic field is described. In this model, charged Fermions are combined with an even number of magnetic flux quanta in such a way that the external magnetic field is compensated on the average for half filling of Landau levels and the interaction is incorporated into an effective mass ...

Composite performance indicators of steganographic systems are investigated, on the basis which a new approach to construction covert channel models in telecommunication communication networks is proposed. Analytical expressions obtained for estimating maximum value bandwidth when introducing counteraction method and changing packet lengths, allow determining characteristics data hiding system.

Previously we presented a TV-based super-resolution sharpening-demosaicing method. Our previous method makes it possible to restore frequency components higher than the Nyquist frequency, and to interpolate color signals effectively while preserving their sharp color edges, without producing ringing artifacts along the edges. However, since our previous method applies the TV regularization sepa...