Abstract: Techniques and structures to facilitate instantiating a data model, including receiving a parameterized encoding of a data model including one or more scenarios, receiving data from a source, executing one or more operations associated with each of the one or more scenarios to transform the received data and creating a plurality of records for the data model based on the transformed data.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an integrated waveguide structure, and a first light source operable to produce a probe beam having a first wavelength, wherein the probe beam is coupled into a first end of the waveguide structure. A second light source is operable to produce an excitation beam with having a second wavelength to excite gas molecules in close proximity to a path of the probe beam. A light detector is coupled to a second end of the integrated waveguide structure and is operable to detect the probe beam after it passes through the waveguide structure. The apparatus is operable such that excitation of the gas molecules results in a temperature increase of the gas molecules that induces a change in the probe beam that is measurable by the light detector.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical receiver for digital signals in the visible range, with a photodetector consisting of a two-dimensional array of avalanche photodiodes (APD), connected in parallel and with an output representing the sum of the individual responses of each APD. The photodetector requires a low on incidence power and therefore allows to detect specific optical signals in a very well-defined range of powers and frequencies, in real high intensity back light conditions without the requirement of optical filters, which allows a great advance in the utility and applicability of communication with visible light with digital modulation techniques.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical receiver for digital signals in the visible range, with a photodetector consisting of a two-dimensional array of avalanche photodiodes (APD), connected in parallel and with an output representing the sum of the individual responses of each APD. The photodetector requires a low on incidence power and therefore allows to detect specific optical signals in a very well-defined range of powers and frequencies, in real high intensity back light conditions without the requirement of optical filters, which allows a great advance in the utility and applicability of communication with visible light with digital modulation techniques.

Abstract: Techniques and structures to facilitate instantiating a data model, including receiving a parameterized encoding of a data model including one or more scenarios, receiving data from a source, executing one or more operations associated with each of the one or more scenarios to transform the received data and creating a plurality of records for the data model based on the transformed data.

Abstract: A passive nanomagnet alignment method is described to self-align a membrane to another surface. The membrane and the surface each have a plurality of nanomagnets patterned on it, wherein the nanomagnets are magnetized based on an applied external magnetic field. The membrane is brought into close proximity and coarse alignment to the surface by a positioning mechanism (e.g., an actuation force), such that the nanomagnets on the membrane attract to and self-align with the nanomagnets on said surface based on the nanomagnet magnetizations.

Abstract: A passive nanomagnet alignment method is described to self-align a membrane to another surface. The membrane and the surface each have a plurality of nanomagnets patterned on it, wherein the nanomagnets are magnetized based on an applied external magnetic field. The membrane is brought into close proximity and coarse alignment to the surface by a positioning mechanism (e.g., an actuation force), such that the nanomagnets on the membrane attract to and self-align with the nanomagnets on said surface based on the nanomagnet magnetizations.