The complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microbolometer technology provides a low-cost approach for the long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging applications. The fabrication of the CMOS-compatible microbolometer infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPA...
The S-approximation spaces are significant extension of the rough set model and have been widely applied in intelligent decision-making. However, traditional S-approximation spaces are limited to two crisp universes, whereas bi-fuzzy universes (i.e.,...
Electrical interconnects are becoming a bottleneck in the way towards meeting future performance requirements of integrated circuits. Moore’s law, which observes the doubling of the number of transistors in integrated circuits every couple of y...
In this work, we demonstrate the simple fabrication process of AlN-based piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEH), which are made of cantilevers consisting of a multilayer ion beam-assisted deposition. The preferentially (001) orientated AlN thin films...
The rapid growth of e-commerce and the booming online fashion industry are driving growing user demand for sophisticated, compatible fashion outfits. As an emerging multimodal information retrieval technology, fashion compatibility modeling aims to p...
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the environmentally friendly management and reutilization of electronic waste (e-waste) plastics in flexible pavement construction. The discussion begins with an overview of e-waste management challenges...
The infrared absorption efficiency (IAE) enhancement of the complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductorCMOS compatible thermopile with special subwavelength hole arrays in an active area was numerically investigated by the finite-difference time-domain m...
The use of the electric motor (EM) inside the transmission in electric vehicles (EVs) requires compatibility between the automatic transmission fluids (ATFs) and the materials of the EM and the transmission. The goal of this work is to study the comp...
Guide dogs hold the potential to increase confidence and independence in visually impaired individuals. However, the success of the partnership between a guide dog and its handler depends on various factors, including the compatibility between the do...
The growing demand for intelligent environmental monitoring is driving the advancement of high-performance, low-cost, and highly integrated gas sensors. Silicon-compatible semiconductor gas sensors provide a promising platform to achieve this goal by...
Besides the application of the photonic crystal for the photodetector in the visible range, the infrared devices proposed with subwavelength structure are numerically and experimentally investigated thoroughly for infrared radiation sensing in this r...
The recent development of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare and indoor air quality monitoring expands the market for miniaturized gas sensors. Metal oxide gas sensors based on microhotplates fabricated with micro-electro-mechanical system (M...
In this work, we present the design and numerical validation of a reconfigurable electro-optic photonic integrated circuit architecture for dynamic 1 × 4 optical routing, based on electro-optic phase shifters and a chain of cascaded multimode i...
Silicon-based materials have been the leading platforms for the development of classical information science and are now one of the major contenders for future developments in the field of quantum information science. In this short review paper, whil...
Silicon oxide-based memristors have been extensively studied due to their compatibility with the dominant silicon complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication technology. However, the variability of resistance switching (RS)...
Seedlessness, a key market trait in citrus, is governed by interdependent processes whose expression is strongly influenced by genotype and environment. In this study, we integrated complementary experiments conducted on six lemon cultivars to (i) qu...
The historical bottleneck for truly high scale integrated photonics is the light emitter. The lack of monolithically integrable light sources increases costs and reduces scalability. Quantum phenomena found in embedded Si particles in the nanometer s...
This paper presents two complementary classes of analytical benchmark problems for the one-dimensional wave equation governing longitudinal vibration of a prismatic rod with mixed (clamped–free) boundary conditions. The first benchmark class co...
The compatibility of memristor materials with advanced complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology is a key factor for microelectronics element base manufacturing. Therefore, we continued studying previously fabricated CMOS-compatible N...
Polyacrylates and polysiloxanes are polymers used in pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) patches. Liquid additives are co-solvents of the active substances or permeation enhancers, and their compatibility with the polymeric matrix and the effect on adh...
This study aimed to propose a silicon-on-insulator (SOI)-based charge-trapping synaptic transistor with engineered tunnel barriers using high-k dielectrics for artificial synapse electronics capable of operating at high temperatures. The transistor e...
The environmental impacts of fossil-based plastic food packaging and the use of grease-resistant coatings containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are driving the development of bio-based and fluorine-free alternatives. Nanocellulose and...
The enhanced infrared absorbance (IRA) of the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) compatible thermopile with the subwavelength rectangular-hole arrays in active area is investigated. The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method consider...
In light of the crucial role of collaborative R&D in advancing technology within the new energy vehicle industry, this study seeks to explore ways to overcome the barriers to technological innovation by establishing an effective collaborative inn...
This paper presents the design, simulation and mechanical characterization of a newly proposed complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)/micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometer. The monolithic CMOS/MEMS accelerometer was fabricated u...
This study provides new insights into the compatibility of a promising energetic polysaccharide, called nitrochitosan (NCS), with energy-rich ammonium perchlorate (AP), ammonium nitrate (AN), and hydrazine 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (HNTO) molecules...
Text entry remains a bottleneck for productivity-oriented Virtual Reality (VR), especially in scenarios where optical hand tracking is unstable because of self-occlusion, poor lighting, or out-of-view interaction. We present SlideRing, a dual-thumb w...
Compact scintillation detectors with simultaneous gamma and neutron sensitivity are increasingly relevant for mixed-field monitoring and nuclear measurements under size and cost constraints. This work characterizes a compact Cs2LiLaBr6:Ce (CLLB:Ce) d...
In this paper, we develop a novel dual-mode gas sensor system which comprises a silicon nanoribbon field effect transistor (Si-NR FET) and a film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR). We investigate their sensing characteristics using polar and nonpolar or...
Heartworm-Associated Respiratory Disease (HARD) is an early manifestation of feline dirofilariosis caused by immature Dirofilaria immitis stages reaching the lungs and inducing marked inflammatory airway lesions. This study quantified computed tomogr...
The graphene nano-electro-mechanical switches are promising components due to their outstanding switching performance. However, most of the reported devices suffered from a large actuation voltages, hindering them from the integration in the conventi...
The optical absorption coefficient of graphene will change after injecting carriers. Based on this principle, a high-speed double-layer graphene electro-optic modulator with a ring resonator structure was designed in this paper. From the numerical si...
Titanium nitride (TiN) is one of the most well-established engineering materials nowadays. TiN can overcome most of the drawbacks of palsmonic metals due to its high electron conductivity and mobility, high melting point and due to the compatibility...
Simulators play a critical role in the development and testing of Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 applications. However, few studies have examined their capabilities beyond physics modeling, particularly in terms of connectivity and integration within...
This paper presents the integration of an inductor by complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) compatible processes for integrated smart microsensorsystems that have been developed to monitor the motion and vital signs of humans invarious envir...
Synthesis of the vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible methods is essential to integrate the CNT contact and interconnect to nanoscale devices and ultra-dense integrated nanoelectro...
This paper reports a versatile nano-sensor technology using “top-down” poly-silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (FETs) in the conventional Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible semiconductor process. The nanowire manufacturi...
Binary metal oxide materials, such as nickel oxide, are widely used in flexible resistive variable memory devices due to advantages such as their easily controllable material composition, simple structural composition, and good compatibility between...
Aluminum is an alternative plasmonic material in the visible regions of the spectrum due to its attractive properties such as low cost, high natural abundance, ease of processing, and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and liquid crystal...
We demonstrate photogating in a graphene/Si–SiO2 stack, where vertical motion of photogenerated charge is converted into a corresponding change in graphene channel conductance in real time. Under pulsed illumination, holes accumulate at the Si/...
Currently, it is challenging to develop new catalysts for semiconductor nanowires (NWs) growth in a complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) compatible manner via a vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism. In this study, chemically synthesized Cu2O...
Among the many quasiprobability representations of quantum mechanics, the family of Kirkwood–Dirac (KD) representations has come to the foreground in recent years. Each such KD representation is determined by the choice of two complementary com...
Scene text recognition (STR) has benefited from vision–language modeling and multi-modal in-context learning, which enables models to exploit annotated demonstrations during inference without parameter updating. However, existing in-context STR...
We consider the problem of quantifying the information shared by a pair of random variables
Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible Ar+-implanted Si-waveguide p-i-n photodetectors operating in the mid-infrared (2.2 to 2.3 µm wavelengths) are demonstrated at room temperature. Responsivities exceeding 21 mA/W are measured at...
The experimental construction of a double-stranded DNA microcircle of only 42 base pairs entailed a great deal of ingenuity and hard work. However, figuring out the three-dimensional structures of intermediates and the final product can be particular...
Traditional fermented foods and culinary plants constitute complementary microbial and chemical biodiversity resources for food-process innovation. This narrative review critically synthesizes evidence from Bulgarian and French food systems as comple...
Directional couplers, as power splitters, have provided a significant contribution for light splitting and combining in silicon photonics. However, the splitting ratio of conventional directional couplers is very sensitive to wavelength, which limits...
We experimentally measured the femtosecond pulse transmission through a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanowire waveguide under different temperatures and input pulse energy with a cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating (XFROG) measurement s...
We present the development of two complementary amplifier architectures for axion haloscope experiments, based on two types of Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPAs). The first employs a multi-chip module of flux-driven JPAs in a parallel–series conf...
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