Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) heterostructures are used for many purposes in the modern electronics industry, forming the basis of devices such as SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors and Si/SiGe modula...
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A visual privacy system unilaterally blocks rolling shutter cameras by providing a periodically interrupted ambient light source imposing bright and dark bands on the image yet at a frequency impercep...
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A dataflow computer processor is teamed with a general computer processor so that program portions of an application program particularly suited to dataflow execution may be transferred to the dataflo...
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An associative memory that can be integrated with standard computer memory flexibly reduces its parallelism to match the memory bus speed thereby providing substantial increases in memory density poss...
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A GPU architecture employs a crossbar switch to preferentially store operand vectors in a compressed form allowing reduction in the number of memory circuits that must be activated during an operand f...
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A wireless vibrometer employs an antenna array to significantly boost the signal-to-noise ratio of faint received signals twin small objects vibrating at acoustic frequencies. This technique may be us...
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A computer architecture for graph-traversal provides a processor for bottom-up sequencing through the graph data according to vertex degree. This ordered sequencing reduces redundant edge checks. In o...
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A cartridge for use by print-disabled users to play digital audio content and a player having a receptacle for receiving the cartridge are provided. The cartridge includes a random-access digital stor...
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A phase shifter includes a first dielectric layer, a switch mounted to the first dielectric layer, a conductive layer mounted to the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer mounted to the co...
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A memory module includes a memory device, a command/address buffering device, and a processing data buffer. The memory device includes a memory cell array, a first set of input/output terminals, each ...
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A quantum computing system and method for performing quantum computation is provided. In some aspects, the system includes at least one charge qubit comprising a quantum dot assembly prepared with a s...
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A connector assembly may include a body and a fluid fitting, the fluid fitting configured for releasably engaging a syringe nozzle, at least one deflectable locking arm connected to the body and radia...
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A multiple band phase shifter includes a first dielectric layer, a conductive layer, a second dielectric layer, and for each central operating frequency of a plurality of central operating frequencies...
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Aspects of the present invention provide a memory system comprising a plurality of stacked memory layers, each memory layer divided into memory sections, wherein each memory section connects to a neig...
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Magnetoelectric devices based on piezoelectric/magnetostrictive bilayers are provided. Also provided are methods of using the devices to modulate or to sense the magnetization of the magnetostrictive ...
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An improved non-line-of-sight camera provides for real-time evaluation of a relay wall with respect to illuminated points and sensing areas for higher accuracy and practical field use. Gated sensing a...
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A computer architecture suitable for out-of-order processors manages the problem of timing slack, in which an instruction completes before its clock cycle, by recycling that slack to allow the next su...
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A hardware accelerator for computers combines a stand-alone, high-speed, fixed program dataflow functional element with a stream processor, the latter of which may autonomously access memory in predef...
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A high-bandwidth adaptive cache reduces unnecessary cache accesses by providing a laundry counter indicating whether a given adaptive cache region has any dirty frames to allow write-back without a pr...
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A wavefront sensor system suitable for integration into an integrated circuit light detector may provide for wave angle sensors having varying functional relationships between the wave angle and signa...
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Magnetic switching devices, including magnetic memory devices, are provided. The devices use high-quality crystalline films of 4d or 5d transition metal perovskite having a strong spin-orbit coupling ...
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A computer architecture for graph processing employs a high-bandwidth memory closely coupled to independent processing elements for searching through a graph using a first set of processing elements o...
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A waveguide includes a first double-ridge waveguide, a second double-ridge waveguide, and a polarization rotator. The first double-ridge waveguide provides a phase of an input electrical field rotated...
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A computer architecture employs multiple special-purpose processors having different affinities for program execution to execute substantial portions of general-purpose programs to provide improved pe...
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Spintronic devices based on metallic antiferromagnets having a non-collinear spin structure are provided. Also provided are methods for operating the devices. The spintronic devices are based on a bil...
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