Abstract: A method of fabricating a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center quantum sensing device based on electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printing. A nanopipette with an aperture at one end is filled with nanodiamond suspension ink so the ink is present in a meniscus at The aperture, the nanodiamond suspension ink comprises nanodiamonds and solvent. The nanopipette is supported above a substrate having a back electrode. A DC is applied pulse between the nanopipette and the back electrode so as to generate an electrostatic attractive force resulting in the ejection of nano-diamond-laden droplets with sub-attoliter volume. The droplet lands on the substrate and is allowed to dry due to solvent evaporation. Using the method, the control of the number of printed nano-diamonds is at will, attaining single-particle level precision. This printing approach, therefore, enables printing NV center arrays with a controlled number directly on the substrate without any lithographic process.

Abstract: System and method for sensing movement such as chest movement of each of a plurality of target test subjects by: transmitting, at each of N transmitting antennas (TXs) of a phased multiple-input multiple-output (phased-MIMO) radar, a common frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal in each of a plurality of time division multiplex (TDM) slots, each TDM slot having associated with it a respective weight selected in accordance with a transmit steering vector configured to cause a coherent summation of transmitted signal in a desired direction ?0 toward at least one target; receiving target-reflected energy associated with the transmitted FMCW signals at a virtual array formed by stacking signal from P TDM slots received via M receiving antennas (RXs) of the phased-MIMO radar; and processing an output of the virtual array to extract therefrom signal received from the desired direction ?0 to determine thereby target movement in the desired direction ?0.

Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus providing a dual-function radar communication (DFRC) system a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is configured to have only a small number of its antennas active in each channel use. Probing waveforms are of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) type. OFDM carriers are divided into two groups, one group that is used by the active antennas in a shared fashion, and another group where each subcarrier is assigned to an active antenna in an exclusive fashion (e.g., private subcarriers). Target estimation is carried out based on the received and transmitted symbols. The system communicates information via the transmitted OFDM data symbols and the pattern of active antennas in a generalized spatial modulation (GSM) fashion. A multi-antenna communication receiver can identify the indices of active antennas via sparse signal recovery methods.