Imbibition dynamics of nano-particulate ink-jet drops on micro-porous media

Ink-jet printing of nano-metallic colloidal fluids on to porous media such as coated papers has become a viable method to produce conductive tracks for low-cost, disposable printed electronic devices. However, the formation of well-defined and functional tracks on an absorbing surface is controlled by the drop imbibition dynamics in addition to the well-studied post-impact drop spreading behavior. This study represents the first investigation of the realtime imbibition of ink-jet deposited nano-Cu colloid drops on to coated paper substrates. In addition, the same ink was deposited on to a non-porous polymer surface as a control substrate. By using high-speed video imaging to capture the deposition of ink-jet drops, the time-scales of drop spreading and imbibition were quantified and compared with model predictions. The influences of the coating pore size on the bulk absorption rate and nano-Cu particle distribution have also been studied

Efficient orthogonal control of tunnel couplings in a quantum dot array

Electrostatically-defined semiconductor quantum dot arrays offer a promising platform for quantum computation and quantum simulation. However, crosstalk of gate voltages to dot potentials and inter-dot tunnel couplings complicates the tuning of the device parameters. To date, crosstalk to the dot potentials is routinely and efficiently compensated using so-called virtual gates, which are specific linear combinations of physical gate voltages. However, due to exponential dependence of tunnel couplings on gate voltages, crosstalk to the tunnel barriers is currently compensated through a slow iterative process. In this work, we show that the crosstalk on tunnel barriers can be efficiently characterized and compensated for, using the fact that the same exponential dependence applies to all gates. We demonstrate efficient calibration of crosstalk in a quadruple quantum dot array and define a set of virtual barrier gates, with which we show orthogonal control of all inter-dot tunnel couplings. Our method marks a key step forward in the scalability of the tuning process of large-scale quantum dot arrays.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure

Jetted mixtures of particle suspensions and resins

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from AIP at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof2/26/10/10.1063/1.4897238.Drop-on-demand (DoD) ink-jetting of hard particle suspensions with volume fraction Φ ~ 0.25 has been surveyed using 1000 ultra-high speed videos as a function of particle size (d90 = 0.8-3.6 µm), with added 2 wt% acrylic (250 kDa) or 0.5 wt% cellulose (370 kDa) resin, and also compared with Newtonian analogues. Jet break-off times from 80 µm diameter nozzles were insensitive (120±10 µs) to particle size, and resin jet break-off times were not significantly altered by > 30 wt% added particles. Different particle size grades can be jetted equally well in practice, while resin content effectively controls DoD break-off times

A population-based temporal logic gate for timing and recording chemical events

Engineered bacterial sensors have potential applications in human health monitoring, environmental chemical detection, and materials biosynthesis. While such bacterial devices have long been engineered to differentiate between combinations of inputs, their potential to process signal timing and duration has been overlooked. In this work, we present a two‐input temporal logic gate that can sense and record the order of the inputs, the timing between inputs, and the duration of input pulses. Our temporal logic gate design relies on unidirectional DNA recombination mediated by bacteriophage integrases to detect and encode sequences of input events. For an E. coli strain engineered to contain our temporal logic gate, we compare predictions of Markov model simulations with laboratory measurements of final population distributions for both step and pulse inputs. Although single cells were engineered to have digital outputs, stochastic noise created heterogeneous single‐cell responses that translated into analog population responses. Furthermore, when single‐cell genetic states were aggregated into population‐level distributions, these distributions contained unique information not encoded in individual cells. Thus, final differentiated sub‐populations could be used to deduce order, timing, and duration of transient chemical events

Direct CP and T Violation in Baryonic B Decays

We review the direct CP and T violation in the three-body baryonic B decays in the standard model. In particular, we emphasize that the direct CP violating asymmetry in $B^\pm\to p\bar p K^{*\pm}$ is around 22% and the direct $T$ violating asymmetry in \bar B^0 \ra \Lambda \bar p \pi^+ can be as large as 12%, which are accessible to the current B factories at KEK and SLAC as well as SuperB and LHCb.Comment: 6 pages, Talk given at 4th International Conference on Flavor Physics (ICFP 2007), Beijing, China, 24-28 Sep 200

Lower bounds on photometric redshift errors from Type Ia supernovae templates

Cosmology with Type Ia supernovae heretofore has required extensive spectroscopic follow-up to establish a redshift. Though tolerable at the present discovery rate, the next generation of ground-based all-sky survey instruments will render this approach unsustainable. Photometry-based redshift determination is a viable alternative, but introduces non-negligible errors that ultimately degrade the ability to discriminate between competing cosmologies. We present a strictly template-based photometric redshift estimator and compute redshift reconstruction errors in the presence of photometry and statistical errors. With reasonable assumptions for a cadence and supernovae distribution, these redshift errors are combined with systematic errors and propagated using the Fisher matrix formalism to derive lower bounds on the joint errors in $\Omega_w$ and $\Omega_w'$ relevant to the next generation of ground-based all-sky survey.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figure

Internal fracture caused by focusing of explosive waves

Internal fracture caused by focusing of explosive wave