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Inspired by its central role in many biological processes, the transport of biopolymers across nanoscale pores is at the heart of a single-molecule sensing technology aimed at nucleic acid and protein sequencing, as well as biomarker…
Nanopore sequencing is an emerging DNA sequencing technology that has been proposed for use in DNA storage systems. We propose the noisy nanopore channel model for nanopore sequencing. This model captures duplications, inter-symbol…
In neuromorphic engineering, computation is commonly performed asynchronously, mimicking the way in which nervous systems process information: spike by spike. The Neuromorphic Auditory Sensor (NAS) has been implemented under this principle:…
Modification of surface properties by polymer adsorption is a widely used technique to tune interactions in molecular experiments such as nanopore sensing. Here, we investigate how the ionic current noise through solid-state nanopores…
Spikes can be easily detected inmostintracellular recordings as sharp peaks. However, insome experimental preparations,because of unipolar morphology or other characteristicsof the recorded neurons, the sizes of the spikes recorded from the…
Event cameras capture sparse, asynchronous brightness changes which offer high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, low power consumption, and sparse data output. These advantages make them ideal for Space Situational Awareness,…
The demand from industry to produce accurate acceleration measurements down to ever lower frequencies and with ever lower noise is increasing. Different vibration transducers are used today for many different purposes within this area, like…
Methods for reducing and directly controlling the speed of DNA through a nanopore are needed to enhance sensing performance for direct strand sequencing and detection/mapping of sequence-specific features. We have created a method for…
We present a simplified model of the dynamics of translocation of RNA through a nanopore which only allows the passage of unbound nucleotides. In particular, we consider the disorder averaged translocation dynamics of random, two-component,…
The nature of optical metrology is to perform efficient transfer and precise retrieval for lasers and optical signals, which is beneficial for a variety of applications ranging from optical clocking, spectroscopy, to telecommunications and…
Neuromorphic computing, inspired by biological neural systems, has emerged as a promising approach for ultra-energy-efficient data processing by leveraging analog neuron structures and spike-based computation. However, its application in…
The translocation of a macromolecule through a nanometer-sized pore is an interesting process with important applications in the development of biosensors for single--molecule analysis and in drug delivery and gene therapy. We have carried…
Resilience to noise and to decoherence processes is an important ingredient for the implementation of quantum information processing, and quantum technologies. To this end, techniques such as pulsed and continuous dynamical decoupling have…
Denoising and filtering are widely used in routine seismic-data-processing to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of recorded signals and by doing so to improve subsequent analyses. In this paper we develop a new denoising/decomposition…
Modern compression algorithms exploit complex structures that are present in signals to describe them very efficiently. On the other hand, the field of compressed sensing is built upon the observation that "structured" signals can be…
Power line interference may severely corrupt neural recordings at 50/60 Hz and harmonic frequencies. In this paper, we present a robust and computationally efficient algorithm for removing power line interference from neural recordings. The…
Exploration of the time-domain radio sky has huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the dynamic universe. Past surveys have discovered large numbers of pulsars, rotating radio transients and other transient radio phenomena; however,…
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamonds are excellent nanoscale sensors for measuring parameters such as temperature, magnetic field, and viscosity in complex fluidic environments, including living cells. However, the rapid motion of…
We develop sub-Nyquist sampling systems for analog signals comprised of several, possibly overlapping, finite duration pulses with unknown shapes and time positions. Efficient sampling schemes when either the pulse shape or the locations of…
Accurately measuring the size, morphology, and structure of nanoparticles is very important, because they are strongly dependent on their properties for many applications. In this paper, we present a deep-learning based method for…