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3 Citations
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Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Curved Plasma Channels with Low Surface Roughness and High Circularity for Multistage Laser-Wakefield Accelerators

  • Hongyang Deng,
  • Ziyang Zhang,
  • Min Chen,
  • Jianlong Li and ,
  • Qiang Cao and
  • Xuejiao Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 April 2023

A multistage laser-wakefield accelerator with curved plasma channels was proposed to accelerate electrons to TeV energy levels. In this condition, the capillary is discharged to produce plasma channels. The channels will be used as waveguides to guid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fundamentals and Applications of Laser Micro/Nanostructuring and Synthesis of Micro/Nanomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,421 Views
22 Pages

10 May 2024

For the convenience of comparison with previous literature, the gravity calculations are revisited for the Asteroid 4769 Castalia, but with extensions on its surface and on intersecting planes and spheres around it, using the polyhedron and harmonic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Spacecraft Attitude and Orbital Dynamics, Control, Trajectory Planning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,804 Views
16 Pages

1 September 2023

Traditional 3D slope reliability analysis methods have high computational costs and are difficult to popularize in engineering practice. Under the framework of the limit equilibrium method with 3D slip surface normal stress correction, the critical h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Management Technologies for Deep Excavations in Water-Rich Areas)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
766 Views
15 Pages

Impact of Preservation Techniques on Polyphenols in Aronia melanocarpa Pomace and Their Recovery by Optimized Accelerated Solvent Extraction

  • Jan Sawicki,
  • Weronika Wójciak,
  • Magdalena Żuk,
  • Sławomir Dresler and ,
  • Ireneusz Sowa,
  • Agnieszka Skalska-Kamińska and
  • Magdalena Wójciak
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 April 2026

The valorization of agro-industrial by-products is of increasing importance within circular economy strategies. Aronia melanocarpa pomace, a by-product of juice production, represents a valuable source of polyphenols with potential applications in fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioactive Natural Compounds: From Discovery to Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,847 Views
22 Pages

11 October 2022

Point orthogonal projection onto an algebraic surface is a very important topic in computer-aided geometric design and other fields. However, implementing this method is currently extremely challenging and difficult because it is difficult to achieve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Functions and Polynomials: Theory, Practice, Applications, and Modeling)
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  • Open Access
2,023 Views
26 Pages

State Observer-Based Conditioned Reverse-Path Method for Nonlinear System Identification

  • Atta Oveisi,
  • Umaaran Gogilan,
  • Jafar Keighobadi and
  • Tamara Nestorović

11 April 2024

In light of the complex behavior of vibrating structures, their reliable modeling plays a crucial role in the analysis and system design for vibration control. In this paper, the reverse-path (RP) method is revisited, further developed, and applied t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Actuators and Dampers for Vibration Control: Damping and Isolation Applications - Volume II)
  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
12,060 Views
46 Pages

A Review—Effect of Accelerating Methods on Gas Nitriding: Accelerating Mechanism, Nitriding Behavior, and Techno-Economic Analysis

  • Yu-Long Zhou,
  • Fan Xia,
  • Ai-Jun Xie,
  • Hao-Ping Peng and ,
  • Jian-Hua Wang and
  • Zhi-Wei Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 October 2023

Gas nitriding, as a surface modification technology to improve the wear resistance of workpiece surfaces, is widely used in wind turbine gears, pressure vessel gears, high-precision die casting abrasives, and other areas. However, the gas nitriding t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancement in Heat Treatment and Surface Modification for Metals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,249 Views
17 Pages

14 January 2021

Road surfaces should be maintained in excellent condition to ensure the safety of motorists. To this end, there exist various road-surface monitoring systems, each of which is known to have specific advantages and disadvantages. In this study, a smar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Advancement and Health Monitoring of Transport Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,822 Views
16 Pages

20 November 2023

The compaction quality of asphalt surface courses has a significant impact on the overall performance of asphalt pavements, but the dynamic response and compaction degree variations of different asphalt surface courses (top, middle, and bottom surfac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asphalt Mixtures and Pavements Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,890 Views
20 Pages

Acceleration-Based In Situ Eddy Dissipation Rate Estimation with Flight Data

  • Zhenxing Gao,
  • Haofeng Wang,
  • Kai Qi,
  • Zhiwei Xiang and
  • Debao Wang

19 November 2020

Inducing civil aviation aircraft to bumpiness, atmospheric turbulence is a typical risk that seriously threatens flight safety. The Eddy Dissipation Rate (EDR) value, as an aircraft-independent turbulence severity indicator, is estimated by a vertica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Weather and Aviation Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,771 Views
35 Pages

12 September 2024

To address the lack of reliable measurement methods for identifying wear mechanisms and predicting the state of mechanical seal tribo-parts, this study proposes a method for characterizing tribological behavior based on measuring face vibration accel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wear Mechanism Identification and State Prediction of Tribo-Parts)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,924 Views
15 Pages

Prediction of Tuber Damage from Harvesting and Processing Machine Working Units Based on the Recording of Impact Parameters

  • Michał Sypuła,
  • Aleksander Lisowski,
  • Jacek Klonowski,
  • Tomasz Nowakowski and ,
  • Jarosław Chlebowski and
  • Magdalena Dąbrowska
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 January 2025

The paper presents the development of an empirical mathematical model of the potato tuber damage index that considers the relationship between impact parameters, such as peak acceleration, velocity change, and the experimental coefficient. This coeff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technologies and Techniques for the Enhancement of Agriculture 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,316 Views
12 Pages

20 August 2021

A procedure based on energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy in a scanning electron microscope (SEM-EDXS) is proposed to measure ultra-thin oxide layer thicknesses to atomic scale precision in top-down instead of cross-sectional geometry. The approach i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,528 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2022

The interaction between silica and rubber is very important for the production of high performance rubber. Silica surface modification with silane is a general method that aims to enhance the reinforcement efficiency of silica. In this study, a new s...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites)
  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Citations
10,143 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2020

In order to identify the abnormal road surface condition efficiently and at low cost, a road surface condition recognition method is proposed based on the vibration acceleration generated by a smartphone when the vehicle passes through the abnormal r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,350 Views
29 Pages

Modeling and Machine Learning of Vibration Amplitude and Surface Roughness after Waterjet Cutting

  • Michał Leleń,
  • Katarzyna Biruk-Urban,
  • Jerzy Józwik and
  • Paweł Tomiło

29 September 2023

This study focused on analyzing vibrations during waterjet cutting with variable technological parameters (speed, vfi; and pressure, pi), using a three-axis accelerometer from SEQUOIA for three different materials: aluminum alloy, titanium alloy, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,201 Views
12 Pages

A Study of the Adsorption Properties of Individual Atoms on the Graphene Surface: Density Functional Theory Calculations Assisted by Machine Learning Techniques

  • Jingtao Huang,
  • Mo Chen,
  • Jingteng Xue,
  • Mingwei Li and ,
  • Yuan Cheng,
  • Zhonghong Lai,
  • Jin Hu,
  • Fei Zhou,
  • Nan Qu and
  • Jingchuan Zhu
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

20 March 2024

In this research, the adsorption performance of individual atoms on the surface of monolayer graphene surface was systematically investigated using machine learning methods to accelerate density functional theory. The adsorption behaviors of over thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adsorption Materials and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,360 Views
20 Pages

Estimation of Aircraft-Dependent Bumpiness Severity in Turbulent Flight

  • Haofeng Wang,
  • Zhenxing Gao,
  • Hongbin Gu and
  • Kai Qi

18 February 2021

Atmospheric turbulence threatens flight safety of civil aviation aircraft by inducing aircraft bumpiness. A severity estimation method of aircraft bumpiness in turbulent flight is explored according to in-situ Eddy Dissipation Rate (EDR) indicator. W...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Applied Aerodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,265 Views
24 Pages

28 September 2020

Atmospheric turbulence is a typical risk that threatens the flight safety of civil aviation aircraft. A method of estimating aircraft’s vertical acceleration in turbulence is proposed. Based on the combination of wing and horizontal tail, the c...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
10,029 Views
13 Pages

5 August 2015

Direct tire-road contact friction estimation is essential for future autonomous cars and active safety systems. Friction estimation methods have been proposed earlier for driving conditions in the presence of a slip angle or slip ratio. However, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inertial Sensors and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,373 Views
16 Pages

6 March 2021

In this paper we have proposed a method of solving the computer graphic problem of creating a Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) surface in large clouds in order to create viewsheds. The method is based on radial TIN surface and viewshed visualizat...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,256 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2023

The Daguangbao (DGB) landslide was the largest landslide that was triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake with a magnitude of Ms8.0. The sliding surface of this landslide was constrained on a bedding fault 400 m below the ground surface. Seismic re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring System for Industry 4.0: AI-Driven, Data Analysis and Health Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,611 Views
27 Pages

Contact Force Reconstruction from the Lower-Back Accelerations during Walking on Vibrating Surfaces

  • Jeroen Van Hauwermeiren,
  • Katrien Van Nimmen,
  • Benedicte Vanwanseele and
  • Peter Van den Broeck

10 March 2021

Current models describing the effect of crowd-induced loading require a full-scale validation. To measure the lower-back accelerations during such validation, low-cost accelerometers are used to ensure a sufficient scalability. The goal is to verify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
853 Views
22 Pages

5 February 2026

Underground structures are essential components of modern transportation and infrastructure systems, and evaluating their behavior under extreme dynamic loads such as explosions is critical for urban safety. This study examines the dynamic effects of...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,543 Views
25 Pages

25 October 2023

Twenty-seven methods of estimating vertical ground reaction force first peak, loading rate, second peak, average, and/or time series from a single wearable accelerometer worn on the shank or approximate center of mass during running were compared. Fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Technology for Improving Human Movements and Postures: Part II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,117 Views
27 Pages

Progressive slope failures in open pit mining are characterized by accelerating deformations that can be monitored and potentially forecast. While current monitoring practice emphasizes velocity-based parameters and the inverse velocity method for fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
439 Views
15 Pages

22 September 2026

Identifying seated balance control may contribute to estimation of time delay and evaluation of vestibular weighting. However, few practical methods exist for measuring seated body motion or identifying seated balance control. This study aimed to est...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Signal Processing Techniques for Non-Invasive Health Monitoring)
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,852 Views
27 Pages

Research Progress on Surface Modification of Titanium Implants

  • Yifei Wu,
  • Keming Wan,
  • Jianhua Lu,
  • Changyong Yuan and ,
  • Yuwei Cui,
  • Rongquan Duan and
  • Jun Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 February 2025

Implants made of titanium and its alloys are currently widely used in the human body. A series of surface modification methods developed nowadays enable titanium alloy implants to serve effectively in the human body for a long time. This paper review...

(This article belongs to the Topic Towards Load-Bearing Biomedical Titanium-Based Alloys: From Essential Requirements to Future Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,789 Views
23 Pages

Existing radar target-detection methods exhibit suboptimal performance when they are applied to sea-surface target detection. This is due to the difficulties in detecting weak targets and the interference from sea clutter, as well as to the inability...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,658 Views
26 Pages

Research Progress of MEMS Inertial Switches

  • Min Liu,
  • Xinyang Wu,
  • Yanxu Niu,
  • Haotian Yang and ,
  • Yingmin Zhu and
  • Weidong Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 February 2022

As a typical type of MEMS acceleration sensor, the inertial switch can alter its on-off state while the environmental accelerations satisfy threshold value. An exhaustive summary of the design concept, performance aspects, and fabrication methods of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Fabrication of Micro/Nano Sensors and Actuators)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,936 Views
17 Pages

15 June 2022

Wave features and propagation characteristics during typhoons are the key factors to study the dynamic response of ocean engineering and coastal disaster prevention and mitigation under extreme climate. Based on the Longuet-Higgins theory, the method...

(This article belongs to the Section Air, Climate Change and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,443 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2025

To address the challenges of unstable motion and insufficient detection accuracy in robotic scanning trajectories, particularly under high curvature and irregular shape conditions during ultrasonic testing of complex free-form surface workpieces, thi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Robotics, Sensors and Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,997 Views
13 Pages

Optimization Design of a Pneumatic Wheat-Shooting Device Based on Numerical Simulation and Field Test in Rice–Wheat Rotation Areas

  • Chao Wang,
  • Hongwen Li,
  • Jin He,
  • Qingjie Wang and ,
  • Caiyun Lu and
  • Hanyu Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In rice–wheat rotation areas of China, traditional wheat seeders have severe blockage, low working efficiency and poor seeding quality. In this study, a pneumatic shooting technology was designed, consisting mainly of a nozzle, shell and accele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,552 Views
18 Pages

4 December 2024

This paper constructs a numerical simulation model for the deformation of droplets in a variable cross-section groove of a liquid droplet MEMS switch under different directions, amplitudes, frequencies, and waveforms of acceleration. The numerical si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flows in Micro- and Nano-Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,856 Views
19 Pages

A Study on the Mechanical Characteristics and Self-Preservation Performance of a Deployment Mechanism with a Large Exhibition Ratio during Its Gathering Process

  • Ning Kong,
  • Jinyu Li,
  • Congfa Zhang,
  • Jie Zhang and ,
  • Hongbo Li,
  • Haowei Wang,
  • Biao Li and
  • Yuan Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 April 2020

In order to study the stress state and stability of a spiral tube and actuator for controlled extension and retraction (STACER) during the launching process of a satellite, finite element software was applied to establish a finite element model of ST...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Materials Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,508 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Procedures of Accelerated Aging and Evaluation of Effectiveness of Nanostructured Products for the Protection of Volterra (Italy) Panchina Stone

  • Federica Fernandez,
  • Silvia Germinario,
  • Roberta Montagno,
  • Roberta Basile and ,
  • Leonardo Borgioli and
  • Rocco Laviano
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 October 2022

The aims of the research were to evaluate the effectiveness of the application of nanostructured products on Volterra calcarenite stone and to define the experimental conditions and procedures of accelerated aging tests, able to simulate different de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,009 Views
13 Pages

The Effect of Ultrasonic Cleaning on the Secondary Electron Yield, Surface Topography, and Surface Chemistry of Laser Treated Aluminum Alloy

  • Jie Wang,
  • Yong Gao,
  • Zhiming You,
  • Jiakun Fan and ,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Sheng Wang and
  • Zhanglian Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 January 2020

Laser ablation technique is a novel method for obtaining a surface with a low secondary electron yield (SEY) that can mitigate electron cloud in high-energy accelerators. Before the installation of laser processed aluminum alloy, surface cleaning is...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
669 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Body Weight Unloading and Treadmill Belt Surface on Tibial Acceleration-Based Loading Indicators During Running on a Microgravity Treadmill

  • Łukasz Oleksy,
  • Anna Mika,
  • Martyna Sopa,
  • Artur Stolarczyk and ,
  • Olga Adamska,
  • Maciej Kuchciak,
  • Miłosz Szczudło,
  • Paulina Ciepiela,
  • Rafał Buryta and
  • Renata Kielnar
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

9 May 2026

Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare tibial acceleration and acceleration-based indicators associated with tibial loading during running under full body weight (BW) conditions and with body weight support (80%, 60%, and 40% BW)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Sports Injuries and Rehabilitation: From Injury to Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,980 Views
15 Pages

4 December 2024

The insulation performance of a building is one of the most fundamental factors in reducing its energy use. The insulation of the building envelope is the main factor that directly affects the cooling and heating loads, which is responsible for the l...

(This article belongs to the Section G: Energy and Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
840 Views
18 Pages

18 July 2025

This paper investigates the vibration characteristics of tensioned umbrella-shaped membrane structures with complex curvature under heavy rainfall. To solve the geometrical problem of the complex curvature of a membrane surface, we set the rule of se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Green, Low-Carbon, High-Performance, and Intelligent Building Materials and Structures)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,379 Views
20 Pages

Point Cloud Resampling by Simulating Electric Charges on Metallic Surfaces

  • Kyoungmin Han,
  • Kyujin Jung,
  • Jaeho Yoon and
  • Minsik Lee

22 November 2021

3D point cloud resampling based on computational geometry is still a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a point cloud resampling algorithm inspired by the physical characteristics of the repulsion forces between point electrons. The point...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
622 Views
29 Pages

Optical surface deviations in ophthalmic optics arise from fast tool servo errors, the tool footprint, freeform surface residuals, and the freeform surface curvature responses across processing stages. In this paper, a PAM-Net physics–AI dual-d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Machine Tools and Machining Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,278 Views
21 Pages

14 October 2022

The presence of large-span straight platforms can complicate the airflow around buildings and alter surface wind pressure, gas bypass and wind response in supertall buildings. The article uses the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) method i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wind Effects on Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,365 Views
12 Pages

A Methodology for Stochastic Simulation of Head Impact on Windshields

  • Christopher Brokmann,
  • Christian Alter and
  • Stefan Kolling

3 February 2023

In accidents involving cars with pedestrians, the impact of the head on structural parts of the vehicle presents a significant risk of injury. If the head hits the windshield, the injury is highly influenced by glass fracture. In pedestrian protectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,153 Views
18 Pages

The design of curved surface sliders (CSS) based on the elastic response spectrum method with site-specific seismic input is commonly made by trial and error, whereby the design does not necessarily minimize structural acceleration. This paper theref...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,525 Views
18 Pages

Multiple Recycling of Wood–Plastic Recycled Composite (WPRC): Developing a Method to Evaluate the Degree of Degradation of Used WPRC

  • Keisuke Kojiro,
  • Akane Kusumoto,
  • Hiroaki Horiyama,
  • Makoto Sumiyoshi and ,
  • Masaaki Iwamoto,
  • Koji Ishimoto and
  • Yuzo Furuta
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 October 2024

Wood–plastic recycled composite (WPRC) are composites obtained by heating and mixing the main raw material, wood flour, with thermoplastic resin, containing at least 40% by mass of recycled material in the raw material. In order to promote the...

(This article belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,530 Views
14 Pages

Evolution of Elements on Electrode Surfaces in Gas-Insulated Systems under Electrical Heating

  • Jixing Sun,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Kaixuan Hu,
  • Jiyong Liu and ,
  • Yu Tian,
  • Xin Wang and
  • Shengchun Yan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 December 2022

Accidents always occur in gas-insulated switchgears (GIS) and gas-insulated lines (GIL) since filmed joint electrodes are produced when internal gases react with the electrode’s surface when there is a discharge or when internal electricals ove...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dielectric Coatings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,587 Views
21 Pages

The Influence of Corrosion Processes on the Degradation of Concrete Cover

  • Zofia Szweda,
  • Artur Skórkowski and
  • Petr Konečný

19 March 2024

In this work, two methods were used to accelerate the corrosion of concrete. In the first method, chloride ions were injected into the concrete using the migration method. The moment of the initiation of the corrosion process was monitored using an e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microstructural, Mechanical, and Durability Characteristics of Cementitious Materials (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,840 Views
13 Pages

30 October 2020

In this study, the performance of the fiber-reinforced, stress-absorbing membrane interlayer (F-SAMI) method was evaluated to suppress reflective cracks, which usually occur when the overlay method is applied for the maintenance of existing aged pave...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asphalt Materials II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,376 Views
10 Pages

8 May 2021

Energy harvesting, especially for powering low-power internet-of-things (IoT) devices, is gaining attention in recent years. Triboelectric nanogenerators have been studied to improve the output by applying a structure that can concentrate electrons o...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

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