Displaying digital holograms of real-world objects on a mobile device using tilt-based interaction

Holography is a well-known technique for sensing and displaying real-world three-dimensional (3D) objects. Reconstructions from digital holograms are typically displayed with regular two-dimensional (2D) screens and therefore lot of the 3D specific information is not passed on to the viewer during the display process. Mobile devices have interesting possibilities for displaying 3D data interactively. In this study, we show how nine viewers evaluated hologram reconstructions with a tilt based display system incorporated into a mobile device

Evaluation of perceived quality attributes of digital holograms viewed with a stereoscopic display

Holography is a well-known technique for sensing and displaying real-world three-dimensional (3D) objects. Digital holograms have been successfully displayed on conventional stereoscopic displays allowing research into perception of quality of 3D holographic data. We do know that quality is enhanced if reconstructions of digital holograms are displayed with conventional stereoscopic displays rather than with a regular two-dimensional (2D) screen. However, it is not known how different attributes (e.g. noise, blur, and perceived depth) and the viewer's subjective perception of quality are related. In this study, we show how 13 viewers evaluated these attributes and the visual quality oftive holograms displayed stereoscopicall

Tunable thermal conductivity in silicon twinning superlattice nanowires based phononic metamaterial

International audienceUsing nonequilibrium molecular dynamic simulations, the thermal conductivity of a set of Si phononic metamaterial nanowires with a twinning superlattice structure has been investigated. We first show that this latter structural modulation can yield 65% thermal-conductivity reduction compared to the straight wire case at room temperature. Second, a purely geometry-induced minimal thermal conductivity of the phononic metamaterial is observed at a specific period depending on the nanowire diameter. Mode analysis reveals that the the minimal thermal conductivity arises due to the disappearance of favored atom polarization directions. The current thermal-conductivity reduction mechanism can collaborate with the other known reduction mechanisms, such as the one related to coating, to further reduce thermal conductivity of the metamaterial. Current studies reveal that twinning superlattice nanowires could serve as a promising candidate for efficient thermoelectric conversion benefitting from the large suppression in thermal transport and without deterioration of electron-transport properties when the surface atoms are passivated

Blocking Phonon Transport by Structural Resonances in Alloy-Based Nanophononic Metamaterials Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

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