I) Given a segment-cuttable polygon P drawn on a planar piece of material Q, we show how to cut P out of Q by a (short) segment saw with a total length of the cuts no more than 2.5 times the optimal. We revise the algorithm of Demaine et al. (2001) so as to achieve this ratio. (II) We prove that any collection R of n disjoint1 axis-parallel rectangles drawn on a planar piece of material Q is cu...

Novel Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices using the new langasite (LGS) family of crystals have been designed, fabricated, and tested for high temperature (up to 750°C) gas sensor applications. The devices were fabricated using platinum (Pt) and palladium (Pd) thin film technology and were mounted in a high temperature sealed stainless steel chamber for gas testing. The high temperature SAW sen...

A saw-toothed chessboard, or STC for short, is a kind of chessboard whose boundary forms two staircases from left down to right without any hole inside it. A rook at square (i, j) can dominate the squares in row i and in column j . The rook problem of an STC is to determine the minimum number of rooks that can dominate all squares of the STC. In this paper, we model an STC by two particular gra...

A high-end smartphone must filter the transmit and receive paths for 2G, 3G, and 4G wireless access methods in up to 15 bands, as well as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the receive path of GPS receivers. Signals in the receive paths must be isolated from one another. They also must reject other extraneous signals whose causes are too diverse to list. To do so, a multi-band smartphone will require eight o...

The Global SAW Tag [1] is projected to be a large-volume SAW device application. The modulation method and overall tag data structure are reviewed for a family of proposed RFID devices. Current implementations use a basic group structure that encodes 16 information bits using 4 reflectors chosen from 75 reflector slots. Several groups are placed in-line on a single acoustic track to achieve ID ...

In this paper we explore the possibility of intermediate scale physics in the context of superstring models with higher Kac-Moody levels, by focusing on leftright and Pati-Salam symmetries. We find that the left-right scale may lie in the range 10 − 10 GeV which is favored by neutrino physics, while the Pati-Salam scale is at most two or three orders of magnitude below the unification scale MX ...