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Currently, the dominant gated communities (GCs) in Chinese cities have fragmented the urban road network, causing traffic congestion, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and environmental pollution. The morphological elements of GCs are key factors...

Gallium telluride (GaTe) one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) materials have drawn much attention for high-performance optoelectronic applications because it possesses a direct bandgap for all thickness. We report the morphology-controlled v...

In this study, we proposed using the high-K polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/low-K poly-4-vinylphenol (PVP) bilayer structure as the gate insulator to improve the performance of a pentacene-based organic thin-film transistor. The dielectric constant of the op...

A comprehensive case study of Keansburg Inlet (New Jersey, USA) is presented with the objective of evaluating inlet management alternatives and assessing the influence of an operational flood gate on channel shoaling. The goal of the research is dete...

High-resolution bathymetric surveys are interpreted to describe the morphology and movement of a field of sand waves near San Francisco, CA, USA. The sand wave size, shape, orientation, and migration are described. Portions of the field are nearly tw...

Power quality disturbances (PQD) in electric distribution systems can be produced by the utilization of non-linear loads or environmental circumstances, causing electrical equipment malfunction and reduction of its useful life. Detecting and classify...

Tidal gates cause adverse effects on the ecological environment through the downstream acceleration of sediment deposition. This deposition process and its quantitative analysis have become a hot topic in marine science. A large-scale physical model...

This work presents a comprehensive study of GaN-on-Si pseudo-vertical MOSFETs focusing on single-trench and multi-trench designs. Thanks to a gate-first process flow based on an Al2O3/TiN MOS stack, both fabricated devices exhibit promising transisto...

Aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films were deposited on SiO2 substrates by RF-magnetron sputtering at varying powers (110–140 W) and subsequently subjected to thermal annealing at 450 °C under nitrogen atmosphere. A comprehensive multi-techniqu...

Very few studies have investigated online spoken word recognition in templatic languages. In this study, we investigated both lexical (neighborhood density and frequency) and morphological (role of root morpheme) aspects of spoken word recognition of...

In order to cover the crop water requirements, flow control structures such as gates and weirs are used to transfer the desired amount of water from the canals to the field canals. This paper examines the impact of gate operation and the selection of...

We show that transfer hysteresis for a pentacene thin film transistor (TFT) with a low-temperature solution-processed zirconia (ZrOx) gate insulator can be remarkably reduced by modifying the ZrOx surface with a thin layer of crosslinked poly(4-vinyl...

The increase in gated communities is the most important recent urban phenomenon in Latin America. This article proposes a methodology to identify the morphological features and spatial characteristics of gated communities to map them based on the lan...

Due to its unique structure, discoveries in nanoscale vacuum channel transistors (NVCTs) have demonstrated novel vacuum nanoelectronics. In this paper, the structural parameters of planar-type NVCTs were simulated, which illustrated the influence of...

Multi-terminal artificial synaptic devices are promising for building neural morphological networks and manufacturing neural chips. In this study, planar multi-gate InOx-based artificial synaptic transistor was demonstrated by using solution-processe...

Manufacturing companies are exposed to increased complexity and competition. To stay competitive, companies need to minimize the total cost of quality while ensuring high transparency about process–product relationships within the manufacturing...

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging in low-resource, morphologically rich languages (LRLs/MRLs) remains challenging due to extensive affixation, high out-of-vocabulary (OOV) rates, and pervasive polysemy. We propose MRL-POS, a unified Transformer-CRF framew...

In-liquid biosensing is the new frontier of cells real time monitoring and biomarkers detection. In order to improve the stability and electrical properties of an Electrolyte Gated Organic Field Effect Transistor (EGOFET) biosensor, in this study we...

Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted attention as promising next-generation electronic devices and sensors. In this study, we fabricated a novel nanoelectronic device based on a black-phosphorus-gated WSe2/SnSe...

The detection of acoustic emission events from various failing mechanisms, such as plastic deformations, is a critical element in the monitoring and timely detection of structural failures in infrastructures. This study focuses on the detection of su...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly recognized as an important and potent artificial intelligence approach, widely employed in many computer vision applications, such as facial recognition. Their importance resides in their capacity...

The performance of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) is highly dependent on the dielectric–semiconductor interface, especially in ion-gel-gated OFETs, where a significantly high carrier density is induced at the interface at a low gate v...

A single polyaniline nanofiber field effect transistor (FET) gas sensor fabricated by means of electrospinning was investigated to understand its sensing mechanisms and optimize its performance. We studied the morphology, field effect characteristics...

Gated computed tomography (CT) might not adequately predict occurrence of post-implantation transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) complications in hostile aortic root as it would require a more complex integration of morphological, functional...

In this study, we fabricated metal–insulator–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) based on nanolayered molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) using two insulator materials, silicon dioxide (SiO2) and silicon nitride (SiN). We performed...

In-liquid biosensing is the new frontier of health and environment monitoring. A growing number of analytes and biomarkers of interest correlated to different diseases have been found, and the miniaturized devices belonging to the class of biosensors...

This study explores the integration of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) into an optoelectronic XOR logic gate to enhance BB84 protocol encryption in quantum communication systems. The research leverages the nonlinear optical properties of rGO, specifical...

Spiral wave dynamics in cardiac tissue are critically implicated in the pathogenesis of arrhythmias. This study investigates the effects of modulating calcium and potassium currents on spiral wave stability in a two-dimensional cardiac model. The gat...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the primary cause of death worldwide. For accurate diagnosis of CVDs, robust and efficient ECG denoising is particularly critical in ambulatory cases where various artifacts can degrade the quality of the ECG signal...

Group IV quantum dots (QDs) in HfO2 are attractive for non-volatile memories (NVMs) due to complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatibility. Besides the role of charge storage centers, SiGeSn QDs have the advantage of a low thermal budget...

Low-voltage, solution-processed organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) have tremendous potential to be key components in low-cost, flexible and large-area electronics. However, for these devices to operate at low voltage, robust and high capacitance g...

Utilizing an appropriate enzyme immobilization strategy is crucial for designing enzyme-based biosensors. Plant virus-like particles represent ideal nanoscaffolds for an extremely dense and precise immobilization of enzymes, due to their regular shap...

In this study, trench sidewall modification processes were designed to improve profile uniformity and thereby enhance the electrical performance of silicon power devices in large-scale production. The effects of trench sidewall modification on the mo...

The three-dimensional morphology of frictional sub-surfaces holds significant importance for studying tribological issues. However, the uniformity of the horizontal datum in 3D scanning is limited for curved surfaces, resulting in the inability to ob...

We investigated the effects of various high-k gate dielectrics as well as microwave annealing (MWA) calcination and a postcalcination oxygen plasma treatment on the electrical properties and stability of electrospun indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO)-n...

Astrocytes are non-excitable cells in the CNS that can cause life-threatening astrocytoma tumors when they transform to cancerous cells. Perturbed homeostasis of the neurotransmitter glutamate is associated with astrocytoma tumor onset and progressio...

In this paper, we study the correlation between the dielectric behavior of polypropylene/multi-walled carbon nanotube (PP/MWCNT) nanocomposites and the morphology with regard to the crystalline structure, nanofiller dispersion and injection molding c...

The transition of SiC MOSFET structure from planar to trench-based architectures requires the optimization of gate dielectric layers to improve device performance. This study utilizes a range of characterization techniques to explore the interfacial...

This research investigates the micro-mechanical and tribological properties of injection-molded parts made from polypropylene. The tribological properties of polymers are a very interesting area of research. Understanding tribological processes is ve...

In the field of natural language processing, machine translation is a colossally developing research area that helps humans communicate more effectively by bridging the linguistic gap. In machine translation, normalization and morphological analyses...

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used for non-invasive assessment of cardiac morphology, function, and tissue characteristics due to its exquisite soft-tissue contrast. However, it remains time-consuming and requires proficiency, ma...

The progression of SiC MOSFET technology from planar to trench structures requires optimized gate oxide layers within the trench to enhance device performance. In this study, we investigated the interface characteristics of HfO2 and SiO2/HfO2 gate di...

A novel atomic-level post-etch-surface-reinforcement (PESR) process is developed to recover the p-GaN etching induced damage region for high performance p-GaN gate HEMTs fabrication. This process is composed of a self-limited surface modification ste...

Nano-scale vacuum transistors (NVCTs) based on field emission have the potential to operate at high frequencies and withstand harsh environments, such as radiation, high temperatures, and high power. However, they have demonstrated instability and fa...

Two-dimensional (2D) MoS2 has recently become of interest for applications in broad range photodetection due to their tunable bandgap. In order to develop 2D MoS2 photodetectors with ultrafast response and high responsivity, up-scalable techniques fo...

The SCN4B gene, coding for the NaVβ4 subunit of voltage-gated sodium channels, was recently found to be expressed in normal epithelial cells and down-regulated in several cancers. However, its function in normal epithelial cells has not been characte...

The impact of stress relieved preoxide (SRPO) interface engineering on the physical and electrical properties of LaxAlyO films was investigated. It was proved that the SRPO pretreatment has little influence on the surface morphology of LaxAlyO films...

We have previously shown that neural precursor cell-expressed developmentally downregulated gene 4-2 (Nedd4-2) isoforms with a C2 domain are closely related to ubiquitination of epithelial sodium channel (ENaC), resulting in salt-sensitive hypertensi...

AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are regarded as promising candidates for a 5G communication system, which demands higher frequency and power. Source/drain ohmic contact is one of the key fabrication processes crucial to the devic...

Small object detection, which is frequently applied in defect detection, medical imaging, and security surveillance, often suffers from low accuracy due to limited feature information and blurred details. This paper proposes a small object detection...