Traffic grooming in networks employing WDM is gaining attention due to the difference between the bandwidth requirements of the traffic demands coming from the client layer and the capacity of a wavelength in an Optical Transport Network (OTN). In this paper an algorithm for efficient traffic grooming in a multi-layer IP/MPLS-over-meshed OTN scenario is presented. It allows designing the IP/MPL...

Microtubules driven by kinesin motors have been utilised as "molecular shuttles" in microfluidic environments with potential applications in autonomous nanoscale manipulations such as capturing, separating, and/or concentrating biomolecules. However, the conventional flow cell-based assay has difficulty in separating bound target molecules from free ones even with buffer flushing because molecu...

This paper describes the preparation of new bilayered device comprising a drug containing mucoadhesive layer and a drug free backing layer. Bilaminated films were produced by a casting/ solvent evaporation technique. The mucoadhesive layer was composed of mixture of drug and sodium alginate with or without carbopol 934 P, and backing layer was made of ethyl cellulose. The double layer structure...

For the first time, we successfully developed exchange anisotropy of PtMn/Ni80Fe20 (1 1 0) bilayers grown on a MgO(1 1 0) substrate with or without Pt buffer layer. The results of angular-dependent magneto-optical Kerr effect indicate that the PtMn/Ni80Fe20(1 1 0) films possess unidirectional anisotropy with coercivity and exchange field around 135Oe and 60Oe, respectively. The Pt buffer layer ...

We investigate nonlinear transmission in a layered structure consisting of a slab of positive index material with Kerr-type nonlinearity and a subwavelength layer of linear negative index material (NIM) sandwiched between semi-infinite linear dielectrics. We find that a thin layer of NIM leads to significant changes in the hysteresis width when the nonlinear slab is illuminated at an angle near...

The switched reluctance motor is a simple and robust machine, which has found application over a wide power and speed ranges in different shapes and geometries. This paper introduces a new configuration for a two phase unidirectional switched reluctance motor/field assisted generator. The proposed novel motor/generator consists of two magnetically independent stator and rotor sets (layers), whe...