... in three steps including ethanol for min, HCl (2%, v/v) for min, and piranha solution for The chip surfaces were then activated by H2 SO4 (20% (v/v), 80 ◦ C for 10 min) After each step, the chips ... previously reported for our micro-sized FET arrays Forbiomolecular experiments the devices were silanized with either APTES or GPTES using our standard protocols We present first biomolecular detection ... of 250 mV For biotin a smaller, but still large shift of 33 mV was measured With this device platform and this protocol for biofunctionalization of the wire surfaces we are now ready for real...
... procedure below Before modification, the Al2 O3 surface was treated with oxygen plasma [14] (50 mW power, 30 sccm flow rate for min) for two purposes One is for cleaning the sample surface, and ... Serum Albumin, BSA) is deposited on the sample and is kept in glutaraldehyde vapour for 40 The sample is then dried in air for 15 After modification, the sample is covered with solution-exchanging ... (3% in ethanol with 5% water) for h The device is rinsed with ethanol solution for five times before baking at 110 ◦ C for 10 After wire bonding, 2% urease in 20 mM NaCl solution (5% glyc- Fig Differential...
... operating temperature of 400 ◦ C for both the samples Optical characterization Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy was performed over a wide temperature and wavelength range for the purpose of investigating ... sensors with superior performance-NANOS4” STREP project no 001528 “Nanostructured semiconductors for chemical sensing PRIN project 2004 “Quasi mono dimensional nanosensors for label free ultra sensitive ... thesis on nanostructured metal oxides for gas sensing applications His main activity regards synthesis and electrical characterization of metal oxides for gas sensing applications Presently, he...
... gas -sensing applications [15–17] For the gas -sensing materials, there are various approaches using CNTs as the solution such as CNTs for dispersion, CNTs for composite, CNTs for filling, CNTs for ... mole for ethanol -sensing properties At appropriate annealing conditions, it has shown the formation of the solid solution from two components by the XRD pattern All the film surfaces were uniform ... (MOST) and for the financial support from Third Italian-Vietnamese Executive Programme of Co-operation in S&T for 2006–2008 under the project ‘‘Synthesis and Processing of Nanomaterials for Sensing, ...
... wafer Sample “WO3 ·1/3H2 O” (JCPDS card 35–270) was formed by depositing a droplet of suspension on Si and then dried at RT, under air Sample “h-WO3 ” (JCPDS card 33–1387), the preceding sample ... shown in Fig The sample “WO3 ·1/3H2 O” is formed by drying (room temperature, under air) a droplet of suspension on the Si wafer; sample “h-WO3 ” is the dehydration product of sample “WO3 ·1/3H2 ... mother phase of the nanosize dimension derivatives applied forsensing layers is shown This morphology seems to be promising as a precursor forsensing layers with nanosize dimension grains AFM images...
... SnO2:Pd and WO3:Cr sensors for various gas pulses, as NH3 concentration increases from ppm to 15 ppm We notice that a good saturation level is obtained for both materials, for the exposure and the ... SnO2:Pd and WO3:Cr Porous Silicon micro-hotplates were used for low power consumption Characterization of gas sensors was performed for various NH3 concentrations and operating temperatures, using ... with gas concentration and temperature In the same figure, measurements of sensors using undoped SnO2 deposited by RF sputtering are also reported for comparison We notice that the sensitivity...
... voltages of 25 or 30 kV were employed The system allows for sample rotation (360◦ ) and sample inclination (90◦ ) 2.4 Gas sensing measurements The gas sensing properties of the different hybrid active ... Specifically, these concentrations were: 100, 200, 500 and 1000 ppb for NO2 ; 10 and 50 ppm for CO; 2, and 10 ppm for NH3 and 50 and 150 ppm for C6 H6 To assess the reproducibility of the results, each ... performed For this evaluation, MWCNTs decorated with metal nanoclusters dispersed in glycerol were analyzed In this case no metal oxide was used and the same procedure as the one employed for...
... tells him it was true The old man says that someone should have told him He blames May's mother for her relentless pursuit and says that the way she kept opening her heart to him eventually made ... emotionally on the edge monologues Production Challenges/Problems: Learning how to work a lasso for Eddie The extreme physicality it requires Making the doors boom as indicated by the script...
... the effects of the technology on the user's physical comfort as well as social comfort Traditional sensing technologies are rarely designed for continuous, on-body use: those that require skin contact ... with comfort and wearability (properties of standard, non-electronic garments) Many textile-based sensors are actually sensing materials used to coat a textile [1] or sensing materials formed ... demonstrated, pressure sensing in the wearable environment can provide useful descriptive information about the physical state of the user Conducting electroactive polymers are attractive forsensing in...
... Information exchange Sampling Processing Classification Sampling Processing Information reduction Classification Sampling Sampling Processing ··· Information reduction (a) Sampling Processing Information ... depends on the sampling frequency and on the observation time As an example, for a signal observed for ms and sampled at a frequency of 40 MHz, the signal length is equal to 80000 samples Such ... describing the general spectrum sensing performances, the influence of the information reduction phase on the performances, and some consideration regarding the elapsed time for processing and classification...
... fibers for chemical sensing [18] FIB milling for nanostructure formation allows precise control of size and shape in nanometer accuracy This paper deals specifically with the metal coating on the formation ... has the lowest thermal expansion coefficient (23.1 × 10-6/°C for Al, 18.9 × 10-6/°C for Ag, 14.2 × 10-6/°C for Au, 0.55 × 10 -6 /°C for SiO ), which will reduce the thermal destruction of the ... nanosensor probe by performing a scan on a standard Figure SEM images of a an uncoated nanofiber and b a gold-coated nanofiber sample, e.g., a Fischer pattern The standard sample usually consists...
... behavior can further reduce the necessary samples for recovery and improve the recovery performance Then, the performance of recovery algorithm in CS is evaluated before and after projection matrix optimization ... CS performance improves for both BP and OMP as m increases and in this experiment, BP outperforms OMP Also, as expected, all the optimization methods lead to improved performance of CS For some ... of m, the performance is improved by 10 : for BP and 100 : for OMP The optimization method proposed by us outperforms both Elad’s method and Duarte-Carvajalino and Sapiro’s method For some values...
... same immunity to noise uncertainty, and is therefore suited for operations at low SNR 7.4 Performance Comparison We may now take a look at the performance of the different detectors Figure illustrates ... be used for signal detection of linearly modulated signals in Section We will conclude by a comparison of the new detector performance with second-order detector and energy detector performances ... second-order and fourth-order detectors are affected in the same way by a multipath channel (equivalent degradation of performances) Therefore it does not seem critical to introduce multipath channels...
... matrix is pM × N Since all yi’s are the parts of the same y, their information is the same and they contain Gaussian noise of the same mean and the same variance As long as the reconstruction does ... natural signal can be made sparse by applying orthogonal transforms such as wavelet transform, Fast Fourier transform, discrete cosine transform This step is represented as s = Ψ T x, (2) where x is ... cases Keywords: compressed sensing (CS); orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP); distributed compressed sensing; model-based method Introduction Compressed sensing (CS) is a sampling paradigm that provides...
... matrix is pM × N Since all yi’s are the parts of the same y, their information is the same and they contain Gaussian noise of the same mean and the same variance As long as the reconstruction does ... natural signal can be made sparse by applying orthogonal transforms such as wavelet transform, Fast Fourier transform, discrete cosine transform This step is represented as s = Ψ T x, (2) where x is ... cases Keywords: compressed sensing (CS); orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP); distributed compressed sensing; model-based method Introduction Compressed sensing (CS) is a sampling paradigm that provides...
... of dendrimer with CdTe QDs CdTe -dendrimer conjugates Binding constant Binding capacity (n) KSV (107 M-1) Kb (107 M-1) CdTe -Dendrimer G2.0 0.23 0.29 1.29 CdTe -Dendrimer G4.0 1.9 2.2 1.98 CdTe -Dendrimer ... interaction between CdTe QDs and dendrimer Hence, efforts have been made to bind the dendrimer molecules with QDs via covalent bond Here, the formation of CdTe Dendrimer conjugate is followed ... of surface amine group (NH2) of dendrimer is present in the CdTe Dendrimer conjugate This suggests that a fraction of surface amine groups of dendrimer is used for coupling with QDs, and the rest...
... precursors for the porous anodic oxide film fabrication The samples in the form of the flagshape plates (7 · · 0.2) mm were annealed at 500 °C for h, chemically cleaned, rinsed, and electropolished before ... aluminum at Ua = 40 V for 1.5 h after the perforation of alumina barriers by decreasing Ua down to Ua,fin = 5.0 V and subsequent etchings in the phosphoric acid and immersion solutions for 22 and min, ... 27.0 V and chemical pore widening for sw 60 min); (2) after formation of Zn0 layer at the bottom of the pores by immersion in a solution of Zn/Ni fluorborates for min; (3) after replacement of...
... Occultation Method for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Ionosphere X Radio Occultation Method for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Ionosphere Y.A Liou Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, ... Occultation Method for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Ionosphere 1.2 RO system for monitoring the atmosphere To obtain information about the atmosphere and ionosphere for meteorology, climatology, ... j-th ray For the evaluation of the GIO transforms in two considered partial cases it is not necessary to find the angular spectrum A(u ) The SP method gives the next formula for the transformed...
... Characterization of NucelosideDendrimer (G2.5) Conjugates Radioligand binding was completed for each of the G2.5 dendrimerconjugates Compound 17 showed a 2.4 nM affinity for the A3 AR while compound ... G2.5 PAMAM dendrimer, with preference for its acylation over the secondary amine Each of the G3 and G2.5 dendrimerconjugates also contained an AlexaFluor 488 (AF488) moiety [18] for fluorescent ... released from the dendrimer to retain activity Therefore, there must be a different explanation for the improvement of selectivity and affinity of the G2.5 dendrimer- ligand conjugates The two...
... Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1966) In the area of remote sensing, he is the editor of Information Processing for Remote Sensing and Frontiers of Remote Sensing Information Processing (World Scientific Publishing, ... popular transform techniques, Chapter 24 [now Chapter 12] demonstrates that Hermite transform can be very useful for noise reduction and image fusion in remote sensing The Hermite transform is an ... book are the other two books edited by myself One is Information Processing for Remote Sensing and the other is Frontiers of Remote Sensing Information Processing, both published by World Scientific...