145 research outputs found
Plasmonic Enhancement of Emission from Si-nanocrystals
Plasmonic gratings of different periodicities are fabricated on top of
Silicon nanocrystals embedded in Silicon Dioxide. Purcell enhancements of up to
2 were observed, which matches the value from simulations. Plasmonic
enhancements are observed for the first three orders of the plasmonic modes,
with the peak enhancement wavelength varying with the periodicity. Biharmonic
gratings are also fabricated to extract the enhanced emission from the first
order plasmonic mode, resulting in enhancements with quality factors of up to
16.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures added explanation of low purcell enhancement
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An accurate and efficient quasi-dynamic simulation method of electricity-heat multi-energy systems
Quasi-dynamic energy flow computation (EFC) has become a critical tool to determine and predict the states of the multi-energy system (MES), which helps improve MESā operation efficiency and issues the security warning. However, methods in literature suffer numerical problems including fake oscillations, divergence, etc., Also, with the increasing of system dimensions, the computation efficiency can be hardly guaranteed due to the cross iterations between different nonlinear equations. This paper proposes an accurate and efficient method for quasi-dynamic energy flow computation. Using a scheme with total variation decreasing property, the numerical instability in solutions of thermal dynamics are effectively reduced. By estimating local truncation errors in a cheap way, the simulation step sizes are controlled adaptively and hence the overall simulation efficiency is greatly increased. Numerical tests were performed in a small system and the famous Barry Island system, which verified the advantages of the proposed method in both efficiency and accuracy
MiRNA-145 increases therapeutic sensibility to gemcitabine treatment of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells.
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the most leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Although recent advances provide various treatment options, pancreatic adenocarcinoma has poor prognosis due to its late diagnosis and ineffective therapeutic multimodality. Gemcitabine is the effective first-line drug in pancreatic adenocarcinoma treatment. However, gemcitabine chemoresistance of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells has been a major obstacle for limiting its treatment effect. Our study found that p70S6K1 plays an important role in gemcitabine chemoresistence. MiR-145 is a tumor suppressor which directly targets p70S6K1 for inhibiting its expression in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, providing new therapeutic scheme. Our findings revealed a new mechanism underlying gemcitabine chemoresistance in pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells
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Attention-Based Dense Point Cloud Reconstruction From a Single Image
Article proposes a two-stage training dense point cloud generation network
MCT: A tool for commenting programs by multimedia comments
Program comments have always been the key to understanding code. However, typical text comments can easily become verbose or evasive. Thus sometimes code reviewers find an audio or video code narration quite helpful. In this paper, we present our tool, called MCT (Multimedia Commenting Tool), which is an integrated development environment-based tool that enables programmers to easily explain their code by voice, video and mouse movement in the form of comments. With this tool, programmers can replay the audio or video when they feel like. A demonstration video can be accessed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEHqZme4VEhttp://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000333965800166&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701Computer Science, Software EngineeringComputer Science, Theory & MethodsEngineering, Electrical & ElectronicEICPCI-S(ISTP)
Coupled fiber taper extraction of 1.53 um photoluminescence from erbium doped silicon nitride photonic crystal cavities
Optical fiber tapers are used to collect photoluminescence emission at ~1.5
um from photonic crystal cavities fabricated in erbium doped silicon nitride on
silicon. Photoluminescence collection via fiber taper is enhanced 2.5 times
relative to free space, with a total taper collection efficiency of 53%. By
varying the fiber taper offset from the cavity, a broad tuning range of
coupling strength is obtained. This material system combined with fiber taper
collection is promising for building on-chip optical amplifiers.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Effective Quantization for Diffusion Models on CPUs
Diffusion models have gained popularity for generating images from textual
descriptions. Nonetheless, the substantial need for computational resources
continues to present a noteworthy challenge, contributing to time-consuming
processes. Quantization, a technique employed to compress deep learning models
for enhanced efficiency, presents challenges when applied to diffusion models.
These models are notably more sensitive to quantization compared to other model
types, potentially resulting in a degradation of image quality. In this paper,
we introduce a novel approach to quantize the diffusion models by leveraging
both quantization-aware training and distillation. Our results show the
quantized models can maintain the high image quality while demonstrating the
inference efficiency on CPUs. The code is publicly available at:
https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-transformers
Review of Associations between Built Environment Characteristics and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Risk.
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has stimulated intensive research interest in its transmission pathways and infection factors, e.g., socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, climatology, baseline health conditions or pre-existing diseases, and government policies. Meanwhile, some empirical studies suggested that built environment attributes may be associated with the transmission mechanism and infection risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, no review has been conducted to explore the effect of built environment characteristics on the infection risk. This research gap prevents government officials and urban planners from creating effective urban design guidelines to contain SARS-CoV-2 infections and face future pandemic challenges. This review summarizes evidence from 25 empirical studies and provides an overview of the effect of built environment on SARS-CoV-2 infection risk. Virus infection risk was positively associated with the density of commercial facilities, roads, and schools and with public transit accessibility, whereas it was negatively associated with the availability of green spaces. This review recommends several directions for future studies, namely using longitudinal research design and individual-level data, considering multilevel factors and extending to diversified geographic areas
FilamentāFree Bulk Resistive Memory Enables Deterministic Analogue Switching
Digital computing is nearing its physical limits as computing needs and energy consumption rapidly increase. Analogueāmemoryābased neuromorphic computing can be orders of magnitude more energy efficient at dataāintensive tasks like deep neural networks, but has been limited by the inaccurate and unpredictable switching of analogue resistive memory. Filamentary resistive random access memory (RRAM) suffers from stochastic switching due to the random kinetic motion of discrete defects in the nanometerāsized filament. In this work, this stochasticity is overcome by incorporating a solid electrolyte interlayer, in this case, yttriaāstabilized zirconia (YSZ), toward eliminating filaments. Filamentāfree, bulkāRRAM cells instead store analogue states using the bulk point defect concentration, yielding predictable switching because the statistical ensemble behavior of oxygen vacancy defects is deterministic even when individual defects are stochastic. Both experiments and modeling show bulkāRRAM devices using TiO2āX switching layers and YSZ electrolytes yield deterministic and linear analogue switching for efficient inference and training. BulkāRRAM solves many outstanding issues with memristor unpredictability that have inhibited commercialization, and can, therefore, enable unprecedented new applications for energyāefficient neuromorphic computing. Beyond RRAM, this work shows how harnessing bulk point defects in ionic materials can be used to engineer deterministic nanoelectronic materials and devices.A resistive memory cell based on the electrochemical migration of oxygen vacancies for ināmemory neuromorphic computing is presented. By using the average statistical behavior of all oxygen vacancies to store analogue information states, this cell overcomes the stochastic and unpredictable switching plaguing filamentāforming memristors, and instead achieves linear, predictable, and deterministic switching.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163547/3/adma202003984_am.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163547/2/adma202003984-sup-0001-SuppMat.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163547/1/adma202003984.pd
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