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Nanomechanical Resonators: Toward Atomic Scale, Bo Xu, Pengcheng Zhang, Jiankai Zhu, Zuheng Liu, Alexander Eichler, Xu-Qian Zheng, Jaesung Lee, Aneesh Dash, Swapnil More, Song Wu, Yanan Yanan, Hao Jia, Akshay Naik, Adrian Bachtold, Rui Yang, Philip X.-L. Feng, Zenghui Wang
Nanomechanical Resonators: Toward Atomic Scale, Bo Xu, Pengcheng Zhang, Jiankai Zhu, Zuheng Liu, Alexander Eichler, Xu-Qian Zheng, Jaesung Lee, Aneesh Dash, Swapnil More, Song Wu, Yanan Yanan, Hao Jia, Akshay Naik, Adrian Bachtold, Rui Yang, Philip X.-L. Feng, Zenghui Wang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications
The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and inspired researchers to venture to new grounds. Scientific feats and technological milestones of miniaturization of mechanical structures have been widely accomplished by advances in machining and sculpturing ever shrinking features out of bulk materials such as silicon. With the flourishing multidisciplinary field of low-dimensional nanomaterials, including one-dimensional (1D) nanowires/nanotubes, and two-dimensional (2D) atomic layers such as graphene/phosphorene, growing interests and sustained efforts have been devoted to creating mechanical devices toward the ultimate limit of miniaturization— genuinely down …
Distributed Beamforming With Imperfect Phase Synchronization For Cognitive Radio Networks, Andrew Minturn, Deepraj Vernekar, Yaoqing Lamar Yang, Hamid Sharif
Distributed Beamforming With Imperfect Phase Synchronization For Cognitive Radio Networks, Andrew Minturn, Deepraj Vernekar, Yaoqing Lamar Yang, Hamid Sharif
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications
In this paper, we present the analysis and simulation evaluation of a cognitive radio network employing a distributed beamforming technique with imperfect phase synchronization in the presence of a primary receiver. Our system model consists of a group of cognitive transmitters, each with an ideal isotropic antenna and equal transmit power, communicating with a secondary receiver in the farfield. The objective of the network of cognitive transmitters is to optimize its beampattern in the direction of the secondary receiver while minimizing the beampattern in the direction of the primary receiver to a certain threshold. The phases of the transmitted signals …
Sensor Ranging Technique For Determining Corn Plant Population, Joe D. Luck, Santosh Pitla, Scott A. Shearer
Sensor Ranging Technique For Determining Corn Plant Population, Joe D. Luck, Santosh Pitla, Scott A. Shearer
Department of Biological Systems Engineering: Conference Presentations and White Papers
Mapping of corn plant population can provide useful information for making field management decisions. This research focused on using low cost infra-red sensors to count plants. The voltage output data from the sensors were processed using an algorithm developed to extract plant populations. Preliminary investigations were conducted using sensors mounted on a stationary track for laboratory testing and on a row crop tractor for field testing. Repeated measurements were taken on a manually counted corn row. Visual inspection of the data from the field test indicated the potential to identify corn stalks based on approximate physical widths of the stalks. …