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Applied Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 1

January 2018 - 148 articles

Cover Story: In recent years, organic optic electronic devices have been attracting extensive research interest. DNA from salmon fish is one of the most well-known biopolymers, as it possesses a double helix structure, but it has high leakage due to having a large number of sodium ions and its film being water sensitive. However, a DNA derivative, DNA–CTMA, could be dissolved in polar solvents, and was effective in reducing the movement of mobile ions through ion exchange reactions. This facilitates its wide application in electronic devices, such as organic field-effect transistor (OFET), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and photovoltaic devices. View this paper
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Articles (148)

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,989 Views
28 Pages

Current Status of Single Particle Imaging with X-ray Lasers

  • Zhibin Sun,
  • Jiadong Fan,
  • Haoyuan Li and
  • Huaidong Jiang

22 January 2018

The advent of ultrafast X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) opens the tantalizing possibility of the atomic-resolution imaging of reproducible objects such as viruses, nanoparticles, single molecules, clusters, and perhaps biological cells, achieving...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,361 Views
10 Pages

Manipulating Propagation Constants of Silver Nanowire Plasmonic Waveguide Modes Using a Dielectric Multilayer Substrate

  • Yifeng Xiang,
  • Junxue Chen,
  • Douguo Zhang,
  • Ruxue Wang,
  • Yan Kuai,
  • Fengya Lu,
  • Xi Tang,
  • Pei Wang,
  • Hai Ming and
  • Mary Rosenfeld
  • + 2 authors

22 January 2018

Experiments and numerical simulations demonstrate that when a silver nanowire is placed on a dielectric multilayer, but not the commonly used bare glass slide, the effective refractive index of the propagating surface plasmons along the silver nanowi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,640 Views
18 Pages

22 January 2018

Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique is used to extract maximum power from the photovoltaic system. This paper involves working on an enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based MPPT method for the photovoltaic (PV) system integrated th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,129 Views
12 Pages

22 January 2018

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an effective non-invasive neuroimaging technique for measuring hemoglobin concentration in the cerebral cortex. Owing to the nature of fNIRS measurement principles, measured signals can be contaminated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,710 Views
14 Pages

22 January 2018

It is essential to monitor and to diagnose faults in rotating machinery with a high thrust–weight ratio and complex structure for a variety of industrial applications, for which reliable signal measurements are required. However, the measured values...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
137 Citations
17,206 Views
14 Pages

22 January 2018

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been applied to diverse machine learning tasks for different modalities of raw data in an end-to-end fashion. In the audio domain, a raw waveform-based approach has been explored to directly learn hierarchical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,917 Views
9 Pages

20 January 2018

This research presents results of the estimation of temporal variability of the hydroacoustic noise probability density function (PDF) in shallow waters within the frequency band of 0.03–3.3 kHz; the studies were conducted near the Primorsky Aquarium...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
126 Citations
17,741 Views
18 Pages

Incoherent Digital Holography: A Review

  • Jung-Ping Liu,
  • Tatsuki Tahara,
  • Yoshio Hayasaki and
  • Ting-Chung Poon

20 January 2018

Digital holography (DH) is a promising technique for modern three-dimensional (3D) imaging. Coherent holography records the complex amplitude of a 3D object holographically, giving speckle noise upon reconstruction and presenting a serious drawback i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,309 Views
15 Pages

Motion Planning for Bipedal Robot to Perform Jump Maneuver

  • Xinyang Jiang,
  • Xuechao Chen,
  • Zhangguo Yu,
  • Weimin Zhang,
  • Libo Meng and
  • Qiang Huang

19 January 2018

The remarkable ability of humans to perform jump maneuvers greatly contributes to the improvements of the obstacle negotiation ability of humans. The paper proposes a jumping control scheme for a bipedal robot to perform a high jump. The half-body of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,935 Views
16 Pages

Computational Modelling of Rectangular Sub-Boundary Layer Vortex Generators

  • Unai Fernandez-Gamiz,
  • Iñigo Errasti,
  • Ruben Gutierrez-Amo,
  • Ana Boyano and
  • Oscar Barambones

19 January 2018

Vortex generators (VGs) are increasingly used in the wind turbine manufacture industry as flow control devices to improve rotor blade aerodynamic performance. Nevertheless, VGs may produce excess residual drag in some applications. The so-called sub-...

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