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How can cells embedded into a gradient concentration triangulate the position of the source and migrate toward their final destination? The source triangulation requires to recover the three dimensional coordinates of the source from the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-07 Ulrich Dobramysl , David Holcman

In this paper, a novel mutation operator of differential evolution algorithm is proposed. A new algorithm called divergence differential evolution algorithm (DDEA) is developed by combining the new mutation operator with divergence operator…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Yifeng Gao , Shuhong Gong , Ge Zhao

Composite light-trapping structures offer a promising approach to achieving broadband absorption and high efficiency in thin-film solar cells (TFSCs) in order to accelerate sustainable energy solutions. As the leading material in thin-film…

The random phase approximation (RPA) has emerged as a prominent first-principles method in material science, particularly to study the adsorption and chemisorption of small molecules on surfaces. However, its widespread application is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-01 Edoardo Spadetto , Pier Herman Theodoor Philipsen , Arno Förster , Lucas Visscher

This paper introduces a circle detection method based on Differential Evolution (DE) optimization. Just as circle detection has been lately considered as a fundamental component for many computer vision algorithms, DE has evolved as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Erik Cuevas , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez , Marte Ramirez

The ability to provide very high data rates is a significant benefit of optical wireless communication (OWC) systems. In this paper, an optical wireless downlink in a data centre that uses wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 O. Z. Alsulami , S. O. M. Saeed , S. H. Mohamed , T. E. H. El-Gorashi , M. T. Alresheedi , J. M. H. Elmirghani

In this work, we consider a method of searching of the direction of a wireless network development (the places of new access points or base stations etc.) optimized with criteria of coverage of important territories and minimum cost of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Lev Kazakovtsev

In this letter, we investigate the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem for wireless sensing with movable antenna (MA) systems in the presence of unknown antenna position errors (APE). To achieve robust wireless sensing, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Chengzhi Ye , Ruoyu Zhang , Wen Wu , Byonghyo Shim

Convex optimization is a powerful tool for resource allocation and signal processing in wireless networks. As the network density is expected to drastically increase in order to accommodate the exponentially growing mobile data traffic,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Brendan O'Donoghue , Khaled B. Letaief

We investigate the angular behavior of the upper bound of absorption provided by the guided modes in thin film solar cells. We show that the 4n^2 limit can be potentially exceeded in a wide angular and wavelength range using two-dimensional…

Cu(In,Ga)Se2 based solar cells exceed power conversion efficiencies of 23 %. Yet, the fill factor of these solar cells, with best values around 80 %, is relatively low (Si reaches 84.9%) mostly due to diode factors greater than one.…

We demonstrate optimization of optical metasurfaces over $10^5$--$10^6$ degrees of freedom in two and three dimensions, 100--1000+ wavelengths ($\lambda$) in diameter, with 100+ parameters per $\lambda^2$. In particular, we show how…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zin Lin , Victor Liu , Raphaël Pestourie , Steven G. Johnson

We present a theoretical investigation of the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced absorption (EIA) in a 4-level system consisting of vee and ladder subsystems. The four levels are coupled using one weak probe field, and two strong…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Vineet Bharti , Ajay Wasan , Vasant Natarajan

Difference image analysis (DIA) is a powerful tool for studying time-variable phenomena, and has been used by many time-domain surveys. Most DIA algorithms involve matching the spatially-varying PSF shape between science and template…

All-perovskite tandem solar cells with narrow and wide bandgap perovskite absorbers are promising candidates for low-cost and high efficiency photovoltaic applications. However, the open circuit voltage of typical tandem structures is…

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) are widely applied as compact solutions for desired light manipulations via wavefront shaping. Recent advanced chip applications further require their feature sizes to move down to the subwavelength,…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-01 I-Lin Ho

In contrast to radio frequency (RF), where the modulation bandwidth is restricted by regulations to avoid interference, the available bandwidth in optical wireless communication (OWC) is primarily constrained by system components. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Xiaochen Liu , Jean-Paul M. G. Linnartz , Thiago E. B. Cunha

This paper first considers a multicell network deployment where the base station (BS) of each cell communicates with its cell-edge user with the assistance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) relay node. Equipped with a power splitter and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ali A. Nasir , Duy T. Ngo , Xiangyun Zhou , Rodney A. Kennedy , Salman Durrani

In this paper we describe weighting techniques used for the optimal coaddition of CCD frames with differing characteristics. Optimal means maximum signal-to-noise (s/n) for stellar objects. We derive formulae for four applications: 1)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Philippe Fischer , Greg P. Kochanski

A popular approach to sample a diffusion-based generative model is to solve an ordinary differential equation (ODE). In existing samplers, the coefficients of the ODE solvers are pre-determined by the ODE formulation, the reverse discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Guoqiang Zhang , Niwa Kenta , W. Bastiaan Kleijn