52 results about "Scaling dimension" patented technology

A route to the fabrication of electronic devices is provided, in which the devices consist of two crossed wires sandwiching an electrically addressable molecular species. The approach is extremely simple and inexpensive to implement, and scales from wire dimensions of several micrometers down to nanometer-scale dimensions. The device of the present invention can be used to produce crossbar switch arrays, logic devices, memory devices, and communication and signal routing devices. The present invention enables construction of molecular electronic devices on a length scale than can range from micrometers to nanometers via a straightforward and inexpensive chemical assembly procedure. The device is either partially or completely chemically assembled, and the key to the scaling is that the location of the devices on the substrate are defined once the devices have been assembled, not prior to assembly.

Conventionally, text boxes are used to inform an image capture device of the size of an area to which a captured image will need to be scaled, when fitting the captured image into that area of the composite document. In contrast, size selection systems, methods and graphical user interfaces allow the user to select one of a number of predetermined sets of scale dimensions that the captured image is to be scaled to. The size selection systems, methods and graphical user interfaces provide an alternative method for specifying the dimensions that a captured image is to be scaled to. In various exemplary embodiments of the size selection systems, methods and graphical user interfaces, an image size tab of a graphical user interface for an image capture driver includes a scale portion. The scale portion, in addition to having a number of dimension boxes that allow the user to directly input the desired dimensions to which the captured image is to be scaled, also includes a dimension list box. The dimension list box includes predetermined sets of dimensions to which the captured image can be scaled. In various exemplary embodiments, the dimensions list box includes, as the predetermined sets, sets of dimensions for common paper sizes and sets of dimensions for different paper orientations. The predetermined sets of dimensions can also include sets of user-defined dimensions. These user-defined dimensions allow the user to specify the dimensions of an image area of a document that is often used.

The periodic stress and strain fields produced by a pure twist grain boundary between two single crystals bonded together in the form of a bicrystal are used to fabricate a two-dimensional surface topography with controllable, nanometer-scale feature spacings (e.g., from 50 nanometers down to 1.5 nanometers). The spacing of the features is controlled by the misorientation angle used during crystal bonding. One of the crystals is selected to be thin, on the order of 5-100 nanometers. A buried periodic array of screw dislocations is formed at the twist grain boundary. To bring the buried periodicity to the surface, the thin single crystal is etched to reveal an array of raised elements, such as pyramids, that have nanometer-scale dimensions. The process can be employed with numerous materials, such as gold, silicon and sapphire. In addition, the process can be used with different materials for each crystal such that a periodic array of misfit dislocations is formed at the interface between the two crystals.

The invention provides a real-time human skeleton articulation point detection method and belongs to the field of image processing. The invention designs a hierarchical context attitude detection network, digital image processing and deep learning are adopted for realizing real-time detection on coordinates of skeleton articulation points of human bodies under the conditions of different attitudes, different illuminations and different scale dimensions, a real-time detection method is realized while precision is guaranteed, calculation amount of a model can be obviously reduced, and model training, deployment and usage efficiency is guaranteed.

Microfluidic devices and methods for operations on micro through nano-meter scales. Methods of processing, handling and analysis of yocto-liter scale volumes. Methods and devices for single-molecule transports in milli-scale dimensions. Methods of laser propulsion of individual cells and droplets. Methods of packaging and manufacturing of micro and nanofluidic devices. Method of improving dispensing accuracy. Methods of uses and manufacturing of micro-optico-fluidic devices. Bottom up processing method. Ionic particle deflector device. Smart package device and methods for high-throughput synthesis and screening. Methods and devices for controlled refills of micro stamps. Methods and devices for insitu concentration and dilution of micro volumes of solids and liquids. Methods and devices for eliminating undesirable dry outs and evaporation of microscale volumes of fluids.

The invention discloses a blacktop reflecting crack propagation analog experiment device which includes an environment box and a blacktop simulative platform and a reflecting crack propagation tester arranged in the environment box. The reflecting crack propagation tester includes a horizontal pulling fatigue test part, a vertical cutting fatigue test part and a data collecting part controlled by a microcomputer. The blacktop simulative platform includes a fixed testing vehicle (1) and a skip car frame (3) welded as a whole, and an active testing skip car (2) that can move horizontally on the skip car frame (3). The device can carry through pulling type and cutting type reflecting crack propagation expanding large scale dimension road structure experiment, analyze and compare the anti-crack effects of different blacktop structures or materials, acquire relevant calculating parameters and verify a theoretical calculating result, and provide a reliable testing basis for the blacktop structure design.

The systems and methods described herein include a sensor for suitable for sensing chemical and biological substances. The sensor comprises a semiconductor layer formed in or on a substrate and a channel having nano-scale dimensions formed in the semiconductor layer, where the structure creates an electrically conducting pathway between a first contact and a second contact on the semiconductor layer. In certain preferred embodiments, the nano-scale channel has a trapezoidal cross-section with an effective width and exposed lateral faces, where the effective width is selected to have same order of magnitude as a Debye length (L_D) of the semiconductor material of which the semiconductor layer is formed.

A method for the fabrication of nanostructured semiconducting, photoconductive, photovoltaic, optoelectronic and electrical battery thin films and materials at low temperature, with no molecular template and no organic contaminants. High-quality metal oxide semiconductor, photovoltaic and optoelectronic materials can be fabricated with nanometer-scale dimensions and high dopant densities through the use of low-temperature biologically inspired synthesis routes, without the use of any biological or biochemical templates.

There is disclosed a method and system for objective video quality assessment. The objective video quality assessment approach automatically predicts human visual quality assessment behaviours in evaluating videos that contain artifacts generated during video acquisition, storage, reproduction, compression, transmission, processing, and/or display. The present method and system computes a five-dimensional quality map of a video being assessed, where the map indicates the local quality variations of the video in a five-dimensional space, which includes two spatial dimensions, one scale dimension, one time dimension, and one distortion type dimension. The present method and system may use one or a combination of device and viewing condition parameters in the generation of the quality map, and in the combination of the quality map into a scalar or vector-values measure that indicates quality aspects of the test videos.

The present invention includes a method of fabricating organic/inorganic composite nanostructures on a substrate comprising depositing a solution having a block copolymer and an inorganic precursor on the substrate using dip pen nanolithography. The process can comprise providing a substrate, providing a nanoscopic tip having an inking composition thereon, wherein the inking composition comprises at least one metal oxide precursor; and transferring the inking composition from the nanoscopic tip to the substrate to form a deposit on the substrate comprising at least one metal oxide precursor, and optionally further comprising the step of converting the metal oxide precursor on the substrate to form the metal oxide. The nanostructures comprises arrays of lines and/or dots having widths/diameters less than 1 micron. The present invention also includes a device comprising an organic/inorganic composite nanoscale region chemically bonded to a substrate, wherein the nanoscale region, wherein the nanoscale region has a nanometer scale dimension other than height.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electrode by adopting a multi-station combining method and machining a die inserted block for forming a microstructure by using the electrode, which belongs to the technical fields of special machining and micromachining. The method comprises two steps, i.e. combined electrode machining by electrical discharge wire-cutting and microstructure machining by electrical discharge forming. A plurality of discharge stations of which the narrow slit widths sequentially and gradually decrease are machined on the same electrode material by using the electrical discharge wire-cutting, the gradually-decreased values of the narrow slit widths are equivalent to the variable quantity of electrode scaling dimensions from rough machining to finish machining in the electrical discharge forming. When the electrical discharge forming is carried out, the positions of a workpiece and the electrode are exchanged, the polarity of a pulse power supply is reversed, and the workpiece carries out servo-feeding machining on the electrode so as to finish discharging machining on each station. The method provided by the invention has the effects and benefits that the error in repeatedly positioning caused by exchanging electrodes is avoided, the vibration error caused by the servo motion of an electrode with a heavier weight and a larger volume is avoided, both the manufactured micro inserted block and the manufactured microstructure are die steel and have high hardness, long service lives, good surface quality and mirror effects.

Probe-based methods for patterning a surface of a material are described. In particular, high resolution patterning of molecules on a surface of a material, such as nano-scale patterns with feature sizes of less than 30 nanometers, are described. In one aspect, a method for patterning a surface of a material includes providing a material having a polymer film. A heated, nano-scale dimensioned probe is then used to desorb molecules upon interacting with the film. The film includes a network of molecules (such as molecular glasses) which are cross-linked via intermolecular (noncovalent) bonds, such as hydrogen bonds.

The present invention provides a system and method for achieving a calibration-free primary atomic clock standard operating at the 0-0 transition free-atom frequency, thus creating a primary frequency standard, with attributes that include scalable to chip-scale dimensions and power consumption.

Embodiments of the present invention employ complexly shaped, high-surface-area channels for separation and purification of molecules, including important biopolymers such as proteins, glycoproteins, polysaccharides, and other molecular components of living cells. The relatively large internal surface areas of the complexly shaped channels employed in embodiments of the present invention provide, in comparison to traditional, simply shaped separation channels, increased heat dissipation during electrokinetic separation, and a decreased tendency for bulk-solution flow. Heat dissipation prevents high temperatures that can denature proteins and that can induce thermal currents within the separation channel. Bulk-solution flow within a separation channel can overwhelm the generally linear, electrical-potential-induced migration of molecules that leads to efficient and well-resolved molecular separations. The complexly shaped channels employed in various embodiments of the present invention can be readily manufactured at microscale dimensions for use in microscale devices, at millimeter-scale dimensions for inclusion in microfluidics devices, and may also be used in larger scale, traditional separation and purification systems.

The invention relates to a semi-automatic classification method for timing sequence remote sensing images based on continuous wavelet transforms. The semi-automatic classification method first builds a plurality of within-a-year sequential variation initial maps of known surface features, conducts continuous wavelet transforms on the within-a-year sequential variation initial maps, and then obtains wavelet coefficient maps and on this basis builds wavelet variance maps based on time dimension and wavelet variance maps based on scale dimension. Meanwhile, wavelet variance maps based on time dimension and wavelet variance maps based on scale dimension of all the research units in the whole research area are built, and then the optimum time domains and the optimum scale domains for images classification are respectively confirmed according to an inter-class otherness maximization principle of the wavelet variance maps of known surface features, and finally semi-automatic classification of remote sensing images is achieved through building a comprehensive evaluation system. The semi-automatic classification method can effectively draw the characteristics of timing sequence remote sensing images in time dimension and scale dimension and has the advantages of being less in reliable on prior knowledge, good in robustness, high in classification accuracy, high in the degree of automation and the like.

The invention discloses an engine stability scaling method. The method includes the steps of: determining a global parameter, a geometrical parameter, a propellant parameter and a nozzle injection parameter of a full-scale engine; determining a complete combustion length of fuel gas of a combustor of the full-scale engine; determining propellant category, temperature before injection, a mixing ratio and scaling combustor pressure of a scaling engine; determining a scaling dimension r; performing a combustion flow filed similarity design; performing a stability scaling design; and reckoning the full-scale engine according to stability evaluation parameters of the scaling engine. By adoption of the abovementioned method, similar conditions of two combustion flow fields can be well satisfied. Combustor pressure is selected properly, so that a liquid propellant is in a super-critical state, thereby truly representing characteristics of mixed flow fields inside the full-scale engine. Compared with the full-scale engine, both mass flow and combustor pressure are greatly reduced, the structure is simple, operation is easy, and cost is relatively low.

The invention discloses a thermal-method powdery electrode printing material. The thermal-method powdery electrode printing material is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by mass: any one of nickel cobalt lithium manganite, lithium manganite, lithium cobaltate, lithium iron phosphate, lithium titanate and graphite, which accounts for 79.5 percent to 98.57 percent of the total mass; any one of graphene, a carbon nanotube, onion carbon and a nano silver wire, serving as an electrode enhancing phase, which accounts for 1 to 10 percent of the total mass; phenol-formaldehyde resin powder which accounts for 0.3 percent to 5.0 percent of the total mass; urotropine which accounts for 10 percent of the amount of the phenol-formaldehyde resin; any one of calcium stearate and zinc stearate, which accounts for 0.1 percent to 0.5 percent of the total mass, wherein the total sum is 100 percent. The invention further discloses a preparation method of a printing electrode of the thermal-method powdery electrode printing material. The printing material disclosed by the invention has the advantages that a selection range of the raw materials is wide and a process is simple; the shape of an electrode can be finely controlled within a micro-scale dimension and the electrochemical performance is good.

The invention discloses a multidimensional and self-definable psychological evaluation scale generation system. A questionnaire module consists of a series of written small questions and is used for collecting opinions, feelings, responses and knowledge cognition of interviewees; the questionnaire module comprises a question module and a dimension module; the question module comprises an affiliated dimension, a question stem, question types and an option score; the dimension module is used for a dimension analysis entry; the dimension module comprises a father dimension, a name, a weight, an average number/a standard deviation, a definition and a high/low score index; the expression of the dimension is used for striking out an exemplificative declarative sentence for high, medium and low levels of each evaluation dimension; and a scoring module is accessed after access of the questionnaire module and a reply module. According to the system, the problem that different psychological scales need different program codes is solved; a configuration mechanism based on a UI is provided; the addition of the question with the scale dimension of 0-4 levels is supported; and the flexibility and applicability of a psychological evaluation platform are improved.

A route to the fabrication of electronic devices is provided, in which the devices consist of two crossed wires sandwiching an electrically addressable molecular species. The approach is extremely simple and inexpensive to implement, and scales from wire dimensions of several micrometers down to nanometer-scale dimensions. The electronic devices can be used to produce crossbar switch arrays, logic devices, memory devices, and communication and signal routing devices. The construction of molecular electronic devices is achieved on a length scale than can range from micrometers to nanometers via a straightforward and inexpensive chemical assembly procedure. The molecular switchable devices in the cross-bar geometry are configurable while the conformational change is controlled by intramolecular forces that are stronger than hydrogen bonding. The method of the present invention is directed to configuring an ensemble of molecular switches in a prescribed manner in cross-bar geometry and then making such configuration either substantially permanent or stable with respect to temperature fluctuations.

A method of fabrication of a micro-optics device included providing a layer of material; patterning the layer of material by one or more of: locally unzipping and desorbing molecules thereof, with a nano-scale dimensioned probe, to obtain a curved surface for the layer of material, the curved surface having a curved profile in a plane section; and completing a layer structure perpendicular to the plane section by providing one or more additional layers of material in contact with the curved surface to obtain the micro-optics device, wherein the micro-optics device has the layer structure, with a given layer thereof comprising a defect delimited by two surfaces, wherein one of the two surfaces is the curved surface.