A process is provided for splicing multiple blocks of multi-lane festooned material. In a case where a group to which a target user equipment belongs is changed from a first group to a second group, the target user equipment may transmit, to a first group member management device, the information regarding the group change. When the timer times out, the host controller or host saves the state of the virtual machine. The shield passes the deposition flux through the aperture and substantially blocks the deposition flux from propagating past the shield everywhere else. The tree-like nanostructure array comprises a trunk part and a branch part. The channel plate is produced by 1) depositing a photoimagable dielectric layer onto a substrate, 2) photoimaging at least one channel plate feature on the dielectric layer, and 3) developing the dielectric layer to form the at least one channel plate feature in the dielectric layer, thereby forming the channel plate.