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Applied Sciences, Volume 4, Issue 2

2014 June - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
19,077 Views
13 Pages

30 May 2014

A semi-classical electrodynamical model is derived to describe the electrical transport along graphene, based on the modified Boltzmann transport equation. The model is derived in the typical operating conditions predicted for future integrated circu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
16,048 Views
17 Pages

CERN-MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE): A New Facility

  • Ricardo Manuel Dos Santos Augusto,
  • Leo Buehler,
  • Zoe Lawson,
  • Stefano Marzari,
  • Monika Stachura,
  • Thierry Stora and
  • CERN-MEDICIS collaboration

16 May 2014

About 50% of the 1.4 GeV CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, www.cern.ch) protons are sent onto targets to produce radioactive beams by online mass separation at the Isotope Separator Online Device (ISOLDE) facility, for a wide range of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,992 Views
23 Pages

16 May 2014

Graphene is an ultimate membrane that mixes both flexibility and mechanical strength, together with many other remarkable properties. A good knowledge of the elastic properties of graphene is prerequisite to any practical application of it in nanosco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,990 Views
10 Pages

Electromagnetic Properties of Graphene-like Films in Ka-Band

  • Sofia Voronovich,
  • Alesya Paddubskaya,
  • Konstantin Batrakov,
  • Polina Kuzhir,
  • Sergey Maksimenko,
  • Tommi Kaplas and
  • Yuri Svirko

15 May 2014

We studied electromagnetic properties of pyrolytic carbon (PyC) films with thicknesses from 9 nm to 110 nm. The PyC films consisted of randomly oriented and intertwined graphene flakes with a typical size of a few nanometers were synthesized by chemi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,895 Views
15 Pages

12 May 2014

Active and abandoned mines may present health risks, especially to children, from environmental exposure to airborne chemical elements, such as Pb, As, and Mn. X-ray fluorescence analysis of tailings at the Three Kids Mine show they contain high lev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,909 Views
12 Pages

Chemical Surface, Thermal and Electrical Characterization of Nafion Membranes Doped with IL-Cations

  • María Del Valle Martínez de Yuso,
  • Ana Arango-Díaz,
  • Shanti Bijani,
  • Virgina Romero,
  • Juana Benavente and
  • Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón

29 April 2014

Surface and bulk changes in a Nafion membrane as a result of IL-cation doping (1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate or BMIM+BF4 and phenyltrimethylammonium chloride or TMPA+Cl) were studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), contac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,712 Views
33 Pages

29 April 2014

This review focuses on intra- and interlayer (IL) electron-phonon interactions and phonon self-energy renormalizations in twisted and AB-stacked bilayer graphene (2LG) composed either only of 12C or a mixing of 12C and 13C isotopes. A simple way to i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,482 Views
15 Pages

Mechanism of Thin Layers Graphite Formation by 13C Implantation and Annealing

  • Gaelle Gutierrez,
  • François Le Normand,
  • Fitsum Aweke,
  • Dominique Muller,
  • Claude Speisser and
  • Frédéric Antoni

21 April 2014

The mechanism of thin layers graphite (TLG) synthesis on a polycrystalline nickel film deposited on SiO2 (300 nm thick)/Si(100) has been investigated by 13C implantation of four equivalent graphene monolayers and annealing at moderate temperatures (4...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,840 Views
13 Pages

Shift Multiplex Recording of Four-Valued Phase Data Pages by Volume Retardagraphy

  • Daisuke Barada,
  • Hiroki Sekiguchi,
  • Takashi Fukuda,
  • Shigeo Kawata and
  • Toyohiko Yatagai

8 April 2014

In this paper, shift multiplex recording of phase data pages on a volume polarization-sensitive medium by retardagraphy is demonstrated. The origin of shift selectivity in volume retardagraphy is explained. In the experiment, four-valued phase data p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
12,708 Views
9 Pages

8 April 2014

Herein, we report on the solvent-free synthesis of 2-aminothiophenes via the Gewald reaction. Utilizing high speed ball milling conditions, we discovered the Gewald reaction can be catalytic in base, and conducted under aerobic conditions. Using ther...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,264 Views
20 Pages

Compressed Sensing-Based Distributed Image Compression

  • Muhammad Yousuf Baig,
  • Edmund M-K Lai and
  • Amal Punchihewa

31 March 2014

In this paper, a new distributed block-based image compression method based on the principles of compressed sensing (CS) is introduced. The coding and decoding processes are performed entirely in the CS measurement domain. Image blocks are classified...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,576 Views
10 Pages

Shift-Peristrophic Multiplexing for High Density Holographic Data Storage

  • Zenta Ushiyama,
  • Hiroyuki Kurata,
  • Yu Tsukamoto,
  • Shuhei Yoshida and
  • Manabu Yamamoto

31 March 2014

Holographic data storage is a promising technology that provides very large data storage capacity, and the multiplexing method plays a significant role in increasing this capacity. Various multiplexing methods have been previously researched. In the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,495 Views
29 Pages

Round-Off Noise of Multiplicative FIR Filters Implemented on an FPGA Platform

  • Jean-Jacques Vandenbussche,
  • Peter Lee and
  • Joan Peuteman

25 March 2014

The paper analyzes the effects of round-off noise on Multiplicative Finite Impulse Response (MFIR) filters used to approximate the behavior of pole filters. General expressions to calculate the signal to round-off noise ratio of a cascade structure o...

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