Latest technologies from The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Gamma locator for radionuclide diagnostics of oncological diseases

kto@skoltech.ru — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:06:44 GMT

KeywordsNuclear medicine, radionuclide diagnostics, radioguided surgery, gamma-ray detector, gamma probe ApplicationsRadionuclide diagnostics of oncological diseases, radioguided surgery, sentinel lymph nodes localization Problem statementAccording to the World Health Organization more than 7,5 million people die from cancer every year. In Russia at the beginning of 2011 more than 2,6 million patients were registered in oncological hospitals. Over the last 10 years the number of cancer patients in the country increased by 25.5%. Over the past 10 years, the number of cancer patients i...

Gaze Correction in Videoconferencing using Supervised Machine Learning

kto@skoltech.ru — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:00:18 GMT

KeywordsGaze correction, machine learning, predictor, decision forest ApplicationsVideoconferencing and other remote video communication systems Problem statementThe problem of gaze in videoconferencing has been attracting researchers and engineers for a long time. The problem manifests itself as the inability of the people engaged into a videoconferencing (the proverbial “Alice” and “Bob”) to maintain gaze contact. The lack of gaze contact is due to the disparity between Bob’s camera and the image of Alice’s face on Bob’s screen (and vice ve...

Ultra low k dielectrics for ULSI interconnects

kto@skoltech.ru — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 03:09:59 GMT

Keywords: ULSI, interconnect, dielectric, low-k, nanocomposite Applications: ULSI interconnects, interlayer dielectrics Problem: The modern ULSI technology requires interconnects with less and less dielectric constant. Though modern dielectrics demonstrate k = 2.5 the materials with k < 2 are required by the industry Technology: We developed a new ultra low-k dielectric material, which is a combination of inorganic nanoparticles with voids inside and the highly fluorinated polymers. This combination allowed us to obtain materials with the k (dielectric constant) <...