One-dimensional light harvesting structures with a realistic geometry nano-patterned on an opaque metallic film are optimized to render high transmission efficiencies at optical and infrared frequencies. Simple design rules are developed for the particular case of a slit-groove array with a given number of grooves that are symmetrically distributed with respect to a central slit. These rules ta...

We present dual-polarization QPSK link transmission performance below the FEC limit with simultaneous transmission of three OAM states carrying 14×10-GBd WDM channels using silica 2D-3D hybrid integrated devices for OAM state multiplexing/demultiplexing capacity of 1.68 Tb/s. OCIS codes: (060.1660) Coherent communications; (050.4865) Optical vortices; (060.4230) Multiplexing Currently, space-di...

While COVID-19 had the potential to be extremely disruptive Canadian pork supply chain, sector showed resiliency by adjusting market changes ensure industry continuation. Unlike other non-agricultural firms that were mandated close at times, was deemed an essential service and allowed continue operating throughout pandemic. Evidence of this is seen in three main ways. First, access United State...

This paper reports on a microfluidic device capable of sorting droplets utilizing conventional bilayer pneumatic micro-valves as sorting controllers. The device consists of two micro-valves placed symmetrically on two sides of a sorting area, each on top of a branching channel at an inclined angle with respect to the main channel. Changes in transmitted light intensity, induced by varying light...

This paper presents a power and area efficient processor for real-time neural spike-sorting. We propose a robust spike detector (SD), a feature extractor (FE), and an improved k-means algorithm for better clustering accuracy. Furthermore, time-multiplexing architecture is used in SD for dynamic power reduction. A customized 39kb 8T SRAM is also implemented to minimize leakage and storage area. ...

Agro processing is defined as set of techno-economic activities, applied to all the produces, originating from agricultural farm, livestock, aquacultural sources and forests for their conservation, handling and value-addition to make them usable as food, feed, fibre, fuel or industrial raw materials. Agro processing sector has experienced expansion during last 5 decades, starting with a handful...

AND LAYPERSON SUMMARY OF PROJECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) was found in increasing numbers in vineyards in Oregon from 2013-2016. In California, BMSB was found in areas closely bordering vineyards, but not in any vineyards to date. Temperatures above and below feeding thresholds (Low=6°C, High =26°C) result in cessation of feeding. Older life stages such as adults were f...

Given the challenges of testing at the system level, only a fully automated approach can really scale up to industrial real-time embedded systems (RTES). Our goal is to provide a practical approach to the model-based testing of RTES by allowing system testers, who are often not familiar with the system’s design but are application domain experts, to model the system environment in such a way as...