porous silicon layers have been prepared from n-type silicon wafers of (100) orientation. sem, ftir and pl have been used to characterize the morphological and optical properties of porous silicon. the influence of varying etching time in the anodizing solution, on structural and optical properties of porous silicon has been investigated. it is observed that pore size increases with etching tim...

Digital materials are composed of many discrete voxels placed in a massively parallel layer deposition process, as opposed to continuous (analog) deposition techniques. We explore the material properties attainable using a voxel-based freeform fabrication process and simulate how the properties can be tuned for a wide range of applications. By varying the precision, geometry, and material of th...

Maxime Lucas, 2, ∗ Duccio Fanelli, † Timoteo Carletti, ‡ and Julien Petit 4, § Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, United Kingdom Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, INFN and CSDC, Via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy naXys, Namur Institute for Complex Systems, University of Namur, B5000 Namur, Belgium Department of Mathematic...

To transmit information by timing arrivals to a singleserver queue, we consider using the exponential server channel’s maximum-likelihood decoder. For any server with service times that are stationary and ergodic with mean 1 seconds, we show that the rate 1 nats per second (capacity of the exponential server timing channel) is achievable using this decoder. We show that a similar result holds f...

The question of robust direct communication in vehicular networks is discussed. In most stateof-the-art approaches, there is no central entity controlling channel access, so there may be arbitrary interference from other parties. Thus, a suitable channel model for Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication is the Arbitrarily Varying Channel (AVC). Employing multiple antennas on a vehicle or sending over ...

This paper studies collaboration through the cloud in the context of cooperative adaptive control for robot manipulators. We first consider the case of multiple robots manipulating a common object through synchronous centralized update laws to identify unknown inertial parameters. Through this development, we introduce a notion of Collective Sufficient Richness, wherein parameter convergence ca...

A stream of unstructured news can be a valuable source of hidden relations between different entities, such as financial institutions, countries, or persons. We present an approach to continuously collect online news, recognize relevant entities in them, and extract time-varying networks. The nodes of the network are the entities, and the links are their co-occurrences. We present a method to e...

We propose generalizations of a number of standard network models, including the classic random graph, the configuration model, and the stochastic block model, to the case of time-varying networks. We assume that the presence and absence of edges are governed by continuous-time Markov processes with rate parameters that can depend on properties of the nodes. In addition to computing equilibrium...

The discrete additive multiple-access arbitrarily varying channel (AVC) with two senders and one receiver is considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for its deterministic-code average-probability-of-error capacity region under a state constraint to have a nonempty interior. In the case that no state constraint is present, the capacity region is characterized exactly. In the ca...

Microscale tipstreaming is a hydrodynamic phenomenon capable of producing submicron sized droplets within a microfluidic device. Tipstreaming is the ejection of small drops from a liquid thread formed by interfacial tension gradients and convective transport of surfactant. To use tipstreaming in potential applications, including nanoparticle synthesis, chemical detection and separation, occlusi...