Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) process enables topographic selectivity through formation of a protective oxide thin film on the recessed locations of the deposited metal layer, while a continuous chemical oxidation ...

An artificial neural network (ANN) is a computational model − implemented as a computer program − that is aimed at emulating the key features and operations of biological neural networks. ANNs are extensively used to model ...

In the present study we prove rigorously that in the long-wave limit, the unidirectional solutions of a class of nonlocal wave equations to which the improved Boussinesq equation belongs are well approximated by the solutions ...

MEMS array oscillators typically require a separate detector and feedback loop for each oscillator. We show that grating-based-optical-readout induces nonlinearity, which enables simultaneous operation of an array-of-oscillators ...

In this paper, we investigate the joint effects of beam width and the spatial coherence length in a partially coherent free-space optical (FSO) link from the information theory perspective, taking into account the combined ...

In a wireless multihop broadcasting scenario, a number of relay nodes may cooperate the source node in order to improve the capacity of the network. However, the imposition of total energy and maximum hop constraints to ...

Following Hasan Tasus, MNG’s Ground Operations Director Serkan Eren took the stage. He talked about various aspects of the airline cargo market. We learned that global cargo growth rates have outperformed that of trade ...

Using data on private Turkish pension funds we show that most active managers are not able to provide performance beyond what could be achieved by passive indexing. The average fund beats its benchmark by only 26 basis ...