Layered materials consist of molecular layers stacked together by weak interlayer interactions. They often crystallize to form atomically smooth thin films, nanotubes, and platelet or fullerene-like nanoparticles due to the anisotropic bonding. Structures that predominately expose edges of the layers exhibit high surface energy and are often considered unstable. In this communication, we presen...

The critical paths of a Max-plus linear systems with noise are random variables. In this paper we introduce the edge criticalities which measure how often the critical paths traverse each edge in the precedence graph. We also present the parallel path approximation, a novel analytic method for approximating these new statistics as well as the previously studied max-plus exponent. We show that f...

This paper presents the QoS differentiated Adaptive Scheduled Optical Burst Switching (QAS-OBS) paradigm that efficiently supports dynamic grid applications. (QAS-OBS) paradigm enables differentiated-services optical burst switching via two-way reservation and adaptive QoS control in distribute wavelength-routed networks. Based on the network loading status, the edge nodes dynamically optimize ...

We investigate the shot noise generated by particle emission from a mesoscopic capacitor into an edge state coupled to another edge state at a quantum point contact (QPC). For a capacitor subject to a periodic voltage the resulting shot noise is proportional to the number of particles (both electrons and holes) emitted during a period. The shot noise is proportional to the driving frequency, ho...

In this paper, we consider the problem of segmenting an image into sky and non-sky regions, typically referred to as horizon line detection or skyline extraction. Specifically, we present a new approach to horizon line detection by coupling machine learning with dynamic programming. Given an image, the Canny edge detector is applied first and keeping only those edges which survive over a wide r...