The quiet-time solar wind electrons feature non-thermal characteristics when viewed from the perspective of their velocity distribution functions. They typically have an appearance of being composed of a denser thermal “core” population p...
Electron temperature is reconsidered for weakly-ionized oxygen and nitrogen plasmas with its discharge pressure of a few hundred Pa, with its electron density of the order of
Silica has many industrial (i.e., glass formers) and scientific applications. The understanding and prediction of the interesting properties of such materials are dependent on the knowledge of detailed atomic structures. In this work, amorphous silic...
The ionosphere has distinctive characteristics under different solar and geomagnetic conditions, as well as throughout the seasons, and has a direct impact on our technological life in terms of radio communication and satellite navigation systems. In...
This study investigates how scattering foil materials and sampling holder placement affect electron energy distribution in electron beams from a modified medical linear accelerator for FLASH radiotherapy. We analyze electron energy spectra at various...
Herein, we carefully investigated the Fe3+ doping effects on the structure and electron distribution of Cr2O3 nanoparticles using X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), maximum entropy method (MEM), and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We sho...
Size distributions of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), extracted from softwood pulp via strong sulfuric acid hydrolysis, exhibit large variability when analyzed from transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images. In this article, the causes of this var...
In the post-transient stage of a 1-Torr pulsed argon discharge, a computationally assisted diagnostic technique is demonstrated for either inferring the electron energy distribution function (EEDF) if the metastable-atom density is known (i.e., measu...
Electron-beam irradiation (EBI) is an efficient, safe, and nonthermal sterilization technique that is extensively used in food preservation research. Here we report the effects of different EBI doses (0, 4, 8 kGy) and preservation temperatures (room...
Wigner showed that a sufficiently thin electron gas will condense into a crystal of localized electrons. Here, we show, using a model based on cubic charge distributions that gives exact results, that the Coulomb repulsion energy of localized charge...
In recent years, many research groups have synthesized ultra-thin silver nanowires (AgNWs) with diameters below 30 nm by employing Cl− and Br− simultaneously in the polyol process. However, the yield of AgNWs in this method was low, due to the produc...
With the increasing penetration of high-proportion renewable energy sources and large-scale integration of power electronic devices, distribution networks are evolving towards power-electronized systems. The integration of high-proportion renewable e...
The AC/DC hybrid distribution network is composed of a medium-voltage DC bus, a low-voltage DC bus, and a power electronic transformer, and has the characteristics of multi-voltage level, multi-DC bus, and multi-converter, so its operation mode and o...
This work presents and discusses the application of power electronics for the integration of several distributed generation sources, as well as those related to it, the microgrids and the smart grids, to the power sector. Trends and challenges are ad...
In this work, the local equilibrium modeling method of a non-equilibrium multi-phase reaction system in the top-blowing melting process of electronic waste was studied. The automatic judgment mechanism of phase transformation and the improvement of t...
This paper investigates the problem of distributed storage of electronic documents (both metadata and files) in decentralized blockchain-based b2b systems (DApps). The need to reduce the cost of implementing such systems and the insufficient elaborat...
This paper focuses on the interdisciplinary research on the design of a smart gateway for managing the dynamic error code testing collected and generated by the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) from the automotive industry. The techniques used to exchan...
Polarisation encoding is widely used in fibre-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), but random birefringence in optical fibres causes the transmitted states to drift, requiring active compensation at the receiver. Electronic Polarisation Controllers...
In the context of modern healthcare, the integration of sensor networks into electronic health record (EHR) systems introduces new opportunities and challenges related to data privacy, security, and interoperability. This paper proposes a secure dist...
In the present work, the kinetic exospheric model of the solar wind is improved by considering regularized Kappa distributions that have no diverging moments through consideration of a cut-off at relativistic velocities. The model becomes valid even...
Anonymity and privacy in the electoral process are mandatory features found in any democratic society, and many authors consider these fundamental civil liberties and rights. During the election process, every voter must be identified as eligible, bu...
Nowadays, high expectations are set for a digitally enabled circular economy (CE), to enhance resource efficiency. Tracing, tracking, and storing information is most important for this. In this paper, the application of Internet of Things (IoT) and D...
In this paper, we investigate the behavior of dust ion acoustic solitary waves (DIASWs) with arbitrary amplitudes in a magnetized anisotropic dusty plasma that includes inertial hot ion fluid, electrons following a Kappa distribution, and negatively...
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the main methods used for electronic nose pattern recognition. However, poor classification performance is common in classification and recognition when using regular PCA. This paper aims to improve the cl...
This study investigates the axial electron density distribution in two plasma antenna configurations excited by a surface wave microwave discharge and its influence on the radiation pattern of antennas. The axial plasma electron density profiles were...
Privacy in Electronic Health Records (EHR) has become a significant concern in today’s rapidly changing world, particularly for personal and sensitive user data. The sheer volume and sensitive nature of patient records require healthcare provid...
Experimental determination of electron density distribution in crystals by means of high-resolution X-ray diffraction allows, among others, for studying the details of intra- and inter-molecular interactions. In case of co-crystals, this method may h...
Researchers carrying out calculations using the DFT method face the problem of the correct choice of the exchange-correlation functional to describe the quantities they are interested in. This article deals with benchmark calculations aimed at testin...
A fundamental phenomenon of coherent control is investigated theoretically using the example of neon photoionization by the bichromatic field of a free-electron laser. A system exposed to coherent fields with commensurable frequencies loses some symm...
To disclose the pore distribution characteristics of different lithofacies lacustrine shales, ten samples collected from the Shahejie Formation, Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China, were examined using argon ion beam milling–scanning electron...
Residual stress/strain and microstructure used in additively manufactured material are strongly dependent on process parameter combination. With the aim to better understand and correlate process parameters used in electron beam melting (EBM) of Ti-6...
This paper explores methods to enhance the reproducibility of Josephson junctions, which are crucial elements in superconducting quantum technologies, when employing the Dolan technique in 30 kV e-beam processes. The study explores the influence of d...
In this paper we continued our research of the uniform electron gas in a warm dense matter regime, focusing on the momentum distribution functions and pair correlation functions. We use the single–momentum path integral Monte Carlo method, base...
Accurate analysis of intraparticle distribution of substances within porous drug carriers is important to optimize loading and subsequent processing. Mercury intrusion porosimetry, a common technique used for characterization of porous materials, ass...
For more than a decade, the unusual distribution of electrons observed in ARPES (angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy) data within the energy range of ~30 meV to ~300 meV below the Fermi level, known as the ARPES energy range, has remained a puz...
At room temperature, the m-Nitrophenol (m-NPH) appears in two polymorphicstructures: orthorhombic and monoclinic forms. In the present work, we shall focus on themonoclinic form of this compound which has a centrosymmetric structure with the spacegro...
In modern distributed energy systems (DES), focus is shifting from the conventional centralized approach towards distributed architectures. However, modeling and analysis of these systems is more complex, as it involves the interface of multiple ener...
In this paper we present a new optical, flexible pressure sensor that can be applied as smart skin to a robot or to consumer electronic devices. We describe a mechano-optical transduction principle that can allow the encoding of information related t...
Atmospheric responses to earthquakes or volcanic eruptions have become an interesting topic and can potentially contribute to future forecasting of these events. Extensive anomalies of the total electron content (TEC) are most often linked with geoma...
The electronic structure of N-TiO2 samples prepared by a sol-gel method was investigated by EPR (Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance) measurements and the energy-resolved distribution of electron traps. In EPR spectra, some of the resonance lines assig...
Ultra-weak photon emission (UPE) is the spontaneous emission from living systems mainly attributed to oxidation reactions, in which reactive oxygen species (ROS) may play a major role. Given the capability of the next-generation electron-multiplying...
To better understand the ionospheric morphology response to lithospheric activities, we study the global location preference of the positive and negative total electron content (TEC) anomalies persisting continuously for longer than 24 h at middle an...
Operational and planning challenges caused by ever-increasing integration of electronically coupled renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) have become a reality all over the globe. These challenges range from technical constraint violations to...
The concept of treating subranges of the electron energy spectrum as species in chemical models is investigated. This is intended to facilitate simple modification of chemical models by incorporating the electron interactions as additional rate equat...
Amorphous, glassy or disordered materials play important roles in developing structural materials from metals or ceramics, devices from semiconductors or medicines from organic compounds. Their local structure is frequently similar to crystalline one...
AC/DC hybrid distribution networks with power electronic transformers (PETs) as distribution hubs are in line with the future development direction of the AC/DC hybrid distribution network. Unlike traditional transformers, power electronic transforme...
Distributed beamforming has emerged as a pivotal technology in modern communication systems, radar applications, and collaborative electronic warfare. Through distributed collaboration, these jamming nodes composed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...
This paper is devoted to the influence of two types of electronic scavenger additives/compounds, namely, carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) and methyl iodide, which is also called iodomethane (CH3I), on the dielectric strength of transformer mineral oil. Th...
The main strengthening mechanism for Inconel 718 (IN718), a Ni-based superalloy, is precipitation hardening by γ′ and γ″ particles. It is thus essential, for good alloy performance, that precipitates with the desired chemical...
Technology advancement in power–electronic interfaces and their evolution open an opportunity to end-users to benefit from their newfound capability. For the end-users, power–electronic interfaces can act as Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) for re...
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