Publications
Time-reversal symmetry and universal conductance fluctuations in a driven two-level system
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In the presence of time-reversal symmetry, quantum interference gives strong corrections to the electric conductivity of disordered systems. The self-interference of an electron wave function traveling time-reversed paths leads to effects such as weak localization and universal conductance fluctuations. Here, we investigate the effects of broken time-reversal symmetry in a...
Graph embedding for speaker recognition
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This chapter presents applications of graph embedding to the problem of text-independent speaker recognition. Speaker recognition is a general term encompassing multiple applications. At the core is the problem of speaker comparison-given two speech recordings (utterances), produce a score which measures speaker similarity. Using speaker comparison, other applications can be...
Dwell scheduling algorithms for phased array antenna
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In a multifunctional radar performing searching and tracking operations, the maximum number of targets that can be managed is an important measure of performance. One way a radar can maximize tracking performance is to optimize its dwell scheduling. The problem of designing efficient dwell scheduling algorithms for various tracking and...
The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2011 MT System
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This paper describes the MIT-LL/AFRL statistical MT system and the improvements that were developed during the IWSLT 2011 evaluation campaign. As part of these efforts, we experimented with a number of extensions to the standard phrase-based model that improve performance on the Arabic to English and English to French TED-talk...
Atomic layer deposition of Sc2O3 for passivating AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor devices
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Polycrystalline, partially epitaxial Sc2O3 films were grown on AlGaN/GaN substrates by atomic layer deposition (ALD). With this ALD Sc2O3 film as the insulator layer, the Sc2O3/AlGaN/GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor high electron mobility transistors showed excellent electrical performance with a high Ion/Ioff ratio of over 108 and a low subthreshold slope of 75...
High efficiency coherent beam combining of semiconductor optical amplifiers
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We demonstrate 40 W coherently combined output power in a single diffraction-limited beam from a one-dimensional 47-element array of angled-facet slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifiers at 1064 nm. The output from each emitter was collimated and overlapped onto a diffractive optical element combiner using a common transform lens. Phase locking was...
Characterizing the optical variability of bright blazars: variability-based selection of fermi active galactic nuclei
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We investigate the use of optical photometric variability to select and identify blazars in large-scale time-domain surveys, in part to aid in the identification of blazar counterparts to the ~30% of y -ray sources in the Fermi 2FGL catalog still lacking reliable associations. Using data from the optical LINEAR asteroid...
Tower Flight Data Manager benefits assessment: initial investment decision interim report
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This document provides an overview of MIT Lincoln Laboratory's activities in support of the interim stage of the Initial Investment Decision benefits assessment for the Tower Flight Data Manager. It outlines the rationale for the focus areas, and the background, methodology, and scope in the focus areas of departure metering...
Switchable electrowetting of droplets on dual-scale structured surfaces
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The authors report on the development of surfaces containing artificially fabricated structures of dual nanometer and micrometer surfaces that allow an aqueous droplet to be reversibly switched by electrowetting from a Cassie state with low adhesion to a Wenzel state with high adhesion. A variety of geometries were fabricated to...
Multifunction Phased Array Radar wind shear experiment
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Terminal Doppler Weather Radars (TDWRs) provide near-ground wind shear detection that is critical for aircraft safety at 46 airports across the United States. These systems are part of the larger network of 510 weather and aircraft surveillance radars owned and operated by government agencies in the continental United States. As...