Steel slags are major by-products of steelmaking, and their variable composition complicates recycling and valorization strategies. This study investigates four representative slag samples obtained from different production pathways at an industrial...
Aiming at the problem of the low accuracy of projector calibration in a structured light system, an improved projector calibration method is proposed in this paper. One of the key ideas is to estimate the sub-pixel coordinates in the projector image...
Studying the dynamical behavior of micro- and nano-mechanical systems (MEMSs and NEMSs) is essential in various fields from nonlinear dynamics to quantum technologies. Hence, it is important to precisely monitor the mechanical properties of MEMS and...
High-throughput methods are extremely important in today’s materials science, especially in the case of thin film characterization. The micro-combinatorial method enables the deposition and characterization of entire multicomponent thin film sy...
This paper investigates air–water two-phase flow regimes in a horizontal T-junction mini-channel with a 1 × 1 mm2 main mini-channel and a 0.3 × 0.3 mm2 side channel. The resulting cross-sectional area ratio of about 11:1 lies outsid...
The accurate mapping of soil texture, a key determinant of soil’s hydrological and nutritional behavior, is essential for agricultural drought assessment, yet the application of multi-temporal satellite data for this purpose remains largely une...
This work introduces an experimental approach focused on investigating fatigue-driven debonding in a composite structure designed to simulate the complexity of a typical aeronautical panel. The debonding is placed between the skin and the stringer, a...
High pressure and temperature (PT) experimental charges are valuable systems composed of minerals, often with quenched melt and/or fluid, synthesized to inform petrological processes deep within Earth. We explored the utility of phase mapping for the...
Direct methods for solving protein crystal structures from X-ray diffraction data provide an essential approach for validating predicted models while avoiding external model bias. Nevertheless, traditional iterative projection algorithms, including t...
ACOM/TEM is an automated electron diffraction pattern indexing tool that enables the structure, phase and crystallographic orientation of materials to be routinely determined. The software package, which is part of ACOM/TEM, has substantially evolved...
The Collatz map is a simple deterministic transformation whose orbit structure remains highly nontrivial. A recent direction-phase decomposition partitions each orbit into upward and downward steps, and numerical observations indicate that the number...
Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are highly complementary, and their registrations are a fundamental task for other remote sensing applications. Traditional feature-matching algorithms fail to solve the significant nonlinear radiatio...
We develop a geometric and operationally explicit construction of correspondence rules (Bopp operators) for s-parametrized Stratonovich–Weyl phase-space symbols associated with symmetric irreducible representations of
Accurate digital twins (DTs) of multiphase permanent-magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) remain challenging because nonlinear magnetic saturation, cross-coupling, iron-loss effects, and inverter non-idealities must be represented despite limited mach...
Equinatoxin II (EqtII) and Fragaceatoxin C (FraC) are pore-forming toxins (PFTs) from the actinoporin family that have enhanced membrane affinity in the presence of sphingomyelin (SM) and phase coexistence in the membrane. However, little is known ab...
Microstructure degradation and phase transformations are critical concerns in nickel-based superalloys during thermal exposure. Understanding the phase transformation mechanism requires the detailed mapping of the distribution of each phase at differ...
Zernike polynomials constitute an essential mathematical basis for representing functions defined over the unit disk. They are widely used in a diverse range of scientific and engineering disciplines, including adaptive optics for characterizing atmo...
Regional augmentation systems for a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) provide an ionospheric map correction to the user in order to remove the ionospheric delay error. Measurements are collected from multiple reference stations to estimate th...
Geoinformatics plays an essential role during the recovery phase of a post-earthquake situation. The aim of this paper is to present the methodology followed and the results obtained by the utilization of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) 4K-video foo...
Wafer-level thin-film stress measurement is essential for reliable semiconductor fabrication. However, existing techniques present limitations in practice. Interferometry achieves high precision but at a cost that becomes prohibitive for large wafers...
More and more attention is being paid to the use of massive parallel computing performed on many-core Networks-on-Chip (NoC) in order to accelerate performance. Simultaneously deploying multiple applications on NoC is one feasible way to achieve this...
Background/Objectives: Accurate preoperative feeding artery mapping remains challenging for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) even with modern CT techniques. This study aimed to optimize dynamic multi-phase photon-counting CT (PCCT) hepatic artery proto...
Indoor exposure to particulate matter (PM) depends on ventilation-driven transport, yet sensor placement in real rooms is often based on limited point data. This study develops and experimentally validates a transient CFD framework, using RANS airflo...
This review explores a method of visualizing a demagnetization field (Hd) within a thin-foiled Nd2Fe14B specimen using electron holography observation. Mapping the Hd is critical in electron holography as it provides the only information on magnetic...
A formal thermodynamic mapping is established between the attractive Fermi–Hubbard model and the repulsive Bose–Hubbard model at finite temperature and at imaginary chemical potential
Measurements of specific heat and magnetization in single crystals were used to map out the magnetic phase diagram of Gd1−xErxB4 (x = 0.2 and 0.4) solid solutions along the c-axis. While GdB4 orders antiferromagnetically (AF) at 41.7 K, with th...
Organic photovoltaic materials have recently seen intense interest from the research community. Improvements in device performance are occurring at an impressive rate; however, visualization of the active layer phase separation still remains a challe...
Phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance biosensors are known for their high sensitivity. One of the technology bottle-necks of such sensors is that the phase sensorgram, when measured at fixed angle set-up, can lead to low reproducibility as the si...
In optical metrology, the output is usually in the form of a fringe pattern, from which a phase map can be generated and phase information can be converted into the desired parameters. This paper proposes an end-to-end method of fringe phase extracti...
The microstructure and micromechanical properties of the constitutive phases of a particular duplex stainless steel in various processing conditions have been characterized. Hardness (H), elastic modulus (E) and H/E cartography maps were obtained by...
Pre- event and event landslide deformations have been detected and measured for the landslide that occurred on 3 December 2013 on the south-western slope of the Montescaglioso village (Basilicata Region, southern Italy). In this paper, ground displac...
The spatiotemporal phase transformation during hot stamping would considerably effect the microstructure and mechanical properties of steels. In order to manufacture hot-stamping components of ultra-high-strength steel with tailored mechanical proper...
DSPI (Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry) is a non-destructive optical measurement technique that obtains phase information of an object through phase unwrapping. Traditional phase unwrapping algorithms depend on the quality of the images, which...
Electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) is widely used in fields such as materials science, biomedical research, surface morphology analysis, and optical component inspection because of its high measurement accuracy, broad frequency range, a...
Multi-level cell (MLC) phase-change memory (PCM) is an attractive solution for next-generation memory that is composed of resistance-based nonvolatile devices. MLC PCM is superior to dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) with regard to scalability and...
Microarray patches (MAPs) have the potential to be a safer, more acceptable, easier-to-use, and more cost-effective means for the administration of vaccines than injection by needle and syringe. Here, we report findings from a randomized, partially d...
Recently, many platforms have outsourced tasks to numerous smartphone devices known as Mobile Crowd-sourcing System (MCS). The data is collected and transferred to the platform for further analysis and processing. These data needs to maintain confide...
In this work, we studied a Ti-Nb-Zr-Sn system for exploring novel composition and temperatures that will be helpful in maximizing the stability of β phase while minimizing the formation of α” and ω-phase. The Ti-Nb-Zr-Sn system...
To perform quality assessments of both metal alloys and many other engineering materials, measurements of the volume fractions of phases or microstructure components are utilized. For this purpose, quantitative analysis of the evaluated components&rs...
The temperature and mechanism of phase transition of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) [P(NiPAAm-co-AAc)], which is one of the multi-stimuli responsive polymers, were investigated at various pHs using infrared (IR) spectroscopy, two-dimensi...
A radio frequency pulse width modulation (RF-PWM) scheme based on phase-shift control and mapping PWM (MPWM) is described. Pulse coding is the key to improving the coding efficiency, flexibility, and configurability of the all-digital transmitter (AD...
Background: Phase analysis has been used to identify and localize atrial fibrillation (AF) sources for targeted ablation. We previously demonstrated that repetitive wannabe reentry (incomplete reentry) often generated an apparent stable rotor using p...
The weakness of the dispersion-managed link, which is combined with optical phase conjugation to compensate for optical signal distortion caused by chromatic dispersion and the nonlinear Kerr effect of the standard single mode fiber is, its limited s...
Integration of the prototypical GeSbTe (GST) ternary alloys, especially on the GeTe-Sb2Te3 tie-line, into non-volatile memory and nanophotonic devices is a relatively mature field of study. Nevertheless, the search for the next best active material w...
Electromagnetic vortex waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide an additional modal dimension for electromagnetic scattering analysis, but the resulting OAM mode-purity spectra are highly nonlinear and expensive to characterize through r...
In this work, the deformation behaviour of a twin-roll cast (TRC) Mg-6.8Y-2.5Zn-0.4Zr alloy during plane strain compression was characterised by high-temperature testing. Based on the experimental data, the values of strain-rate sensitivity, the effi...
The detection of ships in optical remote sensing images with clouds, waves, and other complex interferences is a challenging task with broad applications. Two main obstacles for ship target detection are how to extract candidates in a complex backgr...
Field inhomogeneities in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can cause blur or image distortion as they produce off-resonance frequency at each voxel. These effects can be corrected if an accurate field map is available. Field maps can be estimated star...
In this paper, a hot processing map that takes into the strengthening effect into account is optimized for the Al–10.0Zn–3.0Mg–2.8Cu alloy, mainly considering the crushing and dissolving behavior of the insoluble phase. The hot defo...
For climate change mitigation, a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels such as coal is necessary. This has far-reaching gender-specific consequences. This paper presents a systematic map of the literature that examines the impact of historical coal phase-o...
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