Top Research Papers on VLSI Design PDF

Abstract Graphs have provided an expressive mathematical tool to model quantum-mechanical devices and systems. In particular, it has been recently discovered that graph theory can be used to describe and design quantum components, devices, setups and systems, based on the two-dimensional lattice of parametric nonlinear optical crystals and linear optical circuits, different to the standard quantum photonic framework. Realizing such graph-theoretical quantum photonic hardware, however, remains extremely challenging experimentally using conventional technologies. Here we demonstrate a graph-theo...

A genome-wide association study of plasma protein levels measured with 4,907 aptamers in 35,559 Icelanders highlights links with over 370 disease endpoints and other traits.

A scenario for 2030 for the Moroccan electricity system is studied and the challenges that need to be addressed are identified in order to accelerate the integration of renewable energies in the Moroccan energy mix and to achieve a possible export of such green energy towards Europe.

Intrinsically stretchable electronics with skin-like mechanical properties have been identified as a promising platform for emerging applications ranging from continuous physiological monitoring to real-time analysis of health conditions, to closed-loop delivery of autonomous medical treatment 1-7 . However, current technologies could only reach electrical performance at amorphous-silicon level (that is, charge-carrier mobility of about 1 cm 2 V -1 s -1 ), low integration scale (for example, 54 transistors per circuit) and limited functionalities 8-11 . Here we report high-density, intrinsical...

The ability to assemble large numbers of nearly indistinguishable and tunable artificial atoms into phase-stable PICs marks a key step towards multiplexed quantum repeaters 7 and general-purpose quantum processors.

Optical metasurfaces are planar arrangements of subwavelength meta-atoms that implement a wide range of transformations on incident light. The design of efficient metasurfaces requires that the responses of and interactions among meta-atoms are accurately modeled. Conventionally, each meta-atom's response is approximated by that of a meta-atom located in a periodic array. Although this approximation is accurate for metastructures with slowly varying meta-atoms, it does not accurately model the complex interactions among meta-atoms in more rapidly varying metasurfaces. Optimization-based design...

Predicting the effects of mutations in proteins is critical to many applications, from understanding genetic disease to designing novel proteins that can address the authors' most pressing challenges in climate, agriculture and healthcare, and this work introduces ProteinGym, a large-scale and holistic set of benchmarks specifically designed for protein fitness prediction and design.

This work proposes a hybrid model based on a long short-term memory-based encoder-decoder neural network and a Savitzky-Golay filter that can investigate nonlinear characteristics in a complicated water environment.

In this review, the newly emerging methods for the large-scale production of CDs are summarized, such as microwave, ultrasonic, plasma, magnetic hyperthermia and microfluidic technology.

The rising tide of mental ill‐health in young people globally demands that this focus be elevated to a top priority in global health.

Heat pumps can recover and upgrade industrial waste heat using renewable electricity, creating an essential technological lever to decarbonise thermal processes. High profitability requirements, unfavourable electricity-gas price ratios, and a lack of awareness of meaningful application possibilities among stakeholders from consultants and decision-makers, in both politics and companies, hinder further market penetration. To address these barriers, this review classifies 155 case studies of large-scale heat pumps to identify suitable characteristics that favour implementation. Unit operations,...

This work demonstrated a 64 × 64 flexible tactile sensor array with a record-high spatial resolution of 0.9 mm by integrating a high-performance piezoresistive film (PRF) with a large-area active matrix of carbon nanotube thin-film transistors and hardware-implemented a smart tactile system.

Abstract New, rapid, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective species discovery and delimitation methods are needed for tackling “dark taxa,” here defined as groups for which $<$10$\%$ of all species are described and the estimated diversity exceeds 1,000 species. Species delimitation for these taxa should be based on multiple data sources (“integrative taxonomy”) but collecting multiple types of data risks impeding a discovery process that is already too slow. We here develop large-scale integrative taxonomy (LIT), an explicit method where preliminary species hypotheses are generated bas...

An extensive review of research related to the main power system operational challenges with respect to the massive deployment of PV sources and various control approaches and applications of battery energy storage system (BESS) to improve the inertial response of a low-inertia power system is presented.

This work experimentally demonstrate continuous, multi-channel control of MRR weight banks using simple calibration procedures, achieving a record-high accuracy and precision for all the controlled MRRs.

Human olfactory sensors have a large variety of receptor cells that generate signature responses to various gaseous molecules. Ideally, artificial olfactory sensors should have arrays of diverse sensors. However, it is challenging to monolithically integrate large-scale arrays of different high-performance gas sensors. Here we report biomimetic olfactory chips that integrate nanotube sensor arrays on nanoporous substrates with up to 10,000 individually addressable sensors per chip. The range of sensors is achieved using an engineered material composition gradient. Supported by artificial intel...

It is demonstrated that using a few large convolutional kernels instead of a stack of small kernels could be a more powerful paradigm, and proposed RepLKNet, a pure CNN architecture whose kernel size is as large as 31×31, in contrast to commonly used 3×3.

A recently developed large-scale tactile sensing system for a robotic link, called TacLINK, which can be assembled to form a whole-body tactile sensing robot arm that is scalable in size, durable in operation, and low in cost, that can be widely exploited in the design of robotic arms, prosthetic arms, and humanoid robots, etc.

Producing hydrogen by water electrolysis with solar and wind energy will be one of the main methods of hydrogen production. The inherent intermittency and volatility are, however, the biggest obstacles to the utilization of these low-carbon resources. This limitation leads to an urgent need for fundamental analysis and system integration of renewable energy sources. In this paper, the random fluctuations of wind and solar energy were characterized by the spectral analysis method to explore underlying laws within. The base models of wind power and photoelectric (PV) power were defined to reveal...

The identification of large-scale NCPs in both monocot and dicot plants reveals that a much larger portion of the plant genome can be translated to biologically functional molecules, which has important implications in functional genomic studies.