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Applied Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 10

October 2017 - 140 articles

Cover Story: Since the proposed actuator is so soft and flexible, it can be easily embedded into flexible or shape-changeable devices. We inserted the structure of the proposed actuator and its operating principle. We made a wave-shaped PVC gel as a vibrating film to maximize the displacement in a small and thin actuator and designed a new structure for concentrating most of electric energy on the actuation. When voltage input is applied to the PVC gel, the PVC gel deforms toward an anode. So, under an applied voltage, the actuator compresses to the thickness direction. As soon as remove the voltage input, and it quickly returns to its initial state. Viev this paper here.
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Articles (140)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,309 Views
10 Pages

Amorphous Oxide Thin Film Transistors with Nitrogen-Doped Hetero-Structure Channel Layers

  • Haiting Xie,
  • Guochao Liu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Yan Zhou and
  • Chengyuan Dong

24 October 2017

The nitrogen-doped amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) thinfilm transistors (TFTs) with double-stacked channel layers (DSCL) were prepared and characterized. The DSCL structure was composed of nitrogen-doped amorphous InGaZnO and InZnO films (a-IGZO:...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,554 Views
10 Pages

Effect of ZnO Addition and of Alpha Particle Irradiation on Various Properties of Er3+, Yb3+ Doped Phosphate Glasses

  • Arun Poudel,
  • Iuliia Dmitrieva,
  • Regina Gumenyuk,
  • Laura Mihai,
  • Dan Sporea,
  • Ofelia Mureşan,
  • Ion Rusen,
  • Teemu Hakkarainen,
  • Nadia G. Boetti and
  • Tapio Niemi
  • + 1 author

24 October 2017

New Er3+, Yb3+ codoped phosphate glasses with the (98-x) (0.50P2O5-0.40SrO-0.10Na2O) -0.5Er2O3-1.5Yb2O3-xZnO (in mol %) composition were prepared by melting process with up to 10 mol % of ZnO. The impact of the changes in the glass composition on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,171 Views
16 Pages

A Stochastic Bi-Level Scheduling Approach for the Participation of EV Aggregators in Competitive Electricity Markets

  • Homa Rashidizadeh-Kermani,
  • Mostafa Vahedipour-Dahraie,
  • Hamid Reza Najafi,
  • Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam and
  • Josep M. Guerrero

24 October 2017

This paper proposes a stochastic bi-level decision-making model for an electric vehicle (EV) aggregator in a competitive environment. In this approach, the EV aggregator decides to participate in day-ahead (DA) and balancing markets, and provides ene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,144 Views
24 Pages

A Lookahead Behavior Model for Multi-Agent Hybrid Simulation

  • Mei Yang,
  • Yong Peng,
  • Ru-Sheng Ju,
  • Xiao Xu,
  • Quan-Jun Yin and
  • Ke-Di Huang

24 October 2017

In the military field, multi-agent simulation (MAS) plays an important role in studying wars statistically. For a military simulation system, which involves large-scale entities and generates a very large number of interactions during the runtime, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,772 Views
15 Pages

Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging Based on Bubble Region Detection

  • Yurong Huang,
  • Jinhua Yu,
  • Yusheng Tong,
  • Shuying Li,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Yuanyuan Wang and
  • Qi Zhang

24 October 2017

The study of ultrasound contrast agent imaging (USCAI) based on plane waves has recently attracted increasing attention. A series of USCAI techniques have been developed to improve the imaging quality. Most of the existing methods enhance the contras...

  • Article
  • Open Access
523 Citations
25,412 Views
19 Pages

24 October 2017

Smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and ad-hoc wearable devices are being increasingly used to monitor human activities. Data acquired by the hosted sensors are usually processed by machine-learning-based algorithms to classify human activit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,451 Views
12 Pages

Feature Selection and Classification of Ulcerated Lesions Using Statistical Analysis for WCE Images

  • Shipra Suman,
  • Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin,
  • Aamir Saeed Malik,
  • Shiaw Hooi Ho,
  • Ida Hilmi,
  • Alex Hwong-Ruey Leow and
  • Khean-Lee Goh

24 October 2017

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a technology developed to inspect the whole gastrointestinal tract (especially the small bowel area that is unreachable using the traditional endoscopy procedure) for various abnormalities in a non-invasive manner....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,145 Views
15 Pages

A Transparent Decision Support Tool in Screening for Laryngeal Disorders Using Voice and Query Data

  • Jonas Minelga,
  • Antanas Verikas,
  • Evaldas Vaiciukynas,
  • Adas Gelzinis and
  • Marija Bacauskiene

24 October 2017

The aim of this study is a transparent tool for analysis of voice (sustained phonation /a/) and query data capable of providing support in screening for laryngeal disorders. In this work, screening is concerned with identification of potentially path...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,786 Views
15 Pages

T-Spline Based Unifying Registration Procedure for Free-Form Surface Workpieces in Intelligent CMM

  • Zhenhua Han,
  • Yingmo Wang,
  • Xinhui Ma,
  • Shugui Liu,
  • Xiaodong Zhang and
  • Guoxiong Zhang

23 October 2017

With the development of the modern manufacturing industry, the free-form surface is widely used in various fields, and the automatic detection of a free-form surface is an important function of future intelligent three-coordinate measuring machines (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,500 Views
29 Pages

Fracture Initiation of an Inhomogeneous Shale Rock under a Pressurized Supercritical CO2 Jet

  • Yi Hu,
  • Yiwei Liu,
  • Can Cai,
  • Yong Kang,
  • Xiaochuan Wang,
  • Man Huang and
  • Feng Chen

23 October 2017

Due to the advantages of good fracture performance and the application of carbon capture and storage (CCS), supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) is considered a promising alternative for hydraulic fracturing. However, the fracture initiation mechani...

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