Leland Stanford Junior University

Children's Medical Center Corporation

Other

Jing Wang

Zhigang He

Liqun Luo

Fan Wang

Eric Hoopfer

Qiwei Zhai

Ryan Watts

Lei Xing

Shoucheng Zhang

One or more of the photovoltaic panel controllers determine according to specific information in a control signal whether to control one or more photovoltaic panels according to the control signal.

Photovoltaic system

A solar panel array includes panel bridges associated with solar panels and a signal bridge associated with the converter for communicating with the panel bridges.

Solar array communications

A topological insulator is grown on an IC wafer in a vacuum chamber as a thin film interconnect between two circuits in the IC communicating with each other. As the TI is being grown, magnetic doping of the various TI sub-layers is varied to create different edge states in the stack of sub-layers. The sub-edges conduct in parallel with virtually zero power dissipation. Conventional metal electrodes are formed on the IC wafer that electrically contact the four corners of the TI layer (including the side edges) to electrically connect a first circuit to a second circuit via the TI interconnect. The TI interconnect thus forms two independent conducting paths between the two circuits, with each path being formed of a plurality of sub-edges. This allows bi-direction communications without collisions. Since each electrode contacts many sub-edges in parallel, the overall contact resistance is extremely low.

Topological insulator in IC with multiple conductor paths

A binary image reconstruction method is provided to identify metal objects in a computer tomography (CT) image. The method includes providing a suitably programmed computer, providing a CT image, where the CT image includes intensity data, and the suitably programmed computer is used to determine a first range of attenuation coefficient values and a second range of attenuation coefficient values in the intensity data, where when a difference between the first range of attenuation coefficient values and the second range of attenuation coefficient values is less than a pre-determined gradient threshold value, a boundary of a metal object in the CT image is determined.

Accurate determination of the shape and localization of metallic object(s) in X-ray CT imaging

Reduced degeneration of an axon predetermined to be subject to degenerative neuropathy in a term patient is effected by contacting the axon in situ with an effective amount of a ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) inhibitor sufficient to reduce degeneration of the axon; and detecting a resultant reduction in the degeneration of the axon in situ.

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Jing Wang