Octagonal Defects at Carbon Nanotube Junctions by W. Jaskólski, M. Pelc, Leonor Chico, A. Ayuela

“…We investigate knee-shaped junctions of semiconductor zigzag carbon nanotubes. Two dissimilar octagons appear at such junctions; one of them can reconstruct into a pair of pentagons. …”
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A New Wideband Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna Loaded with Strips by Lichao Hao, Hao Wang, Bo Li, Wenting Yin

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Fabrication of Cu–Zn–Sn–S–O Thin Films by the Electrochemical Deposition Method and Application to Heterojunction Cells by Kai Yang, Masaya Ichimura

“…A new multinary semiconductor Cu2ZnSnS4−𝑥O𝑥 (CZTSO), which does not contain toxic elements and expensive rare metals, was fabricated by the electrochemical deposition (ECD) method. …”
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Digital Simulation of Superconductive Memory System Based on Hardware Description Language Modeling by S. Narendran, J. Selvakumar

“…We have modeled a memory system using Josephson Junction to attain low power consumption using low input voltage compared to conventional Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor-Static Random Access Memory (CMOS-SRAM). …”
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Unveiling the complex morphologies of sessile droplets on heterogeneous surfaces by Yanchen Wu, Hongmin Zhang, Fei Wang, Britta Nestler

“…In high-resolution manufacturing processes, e.g., semiconductor chips, precise control over wetting shapes is crucial for production accuracy. …”
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Effective Atomic Number Determination of Rare Earth Oxides with Scattering Intensity Ratio by A. Turşucu, D. Demir, P. Önder

“…The scattered gamma photons were collected by using a high-resolution HPGe semiconductor detector placed at to the incident beam. …”
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Influence of Sulfurization Temperature on Photoelectric Properties Cu2SnS3 Thin Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering by Pengyi Zhao, Shuying Cheng

“…Cu2SnS3 is a narrow-band-gap semiconductor material. It has suitable optical and electrical properties which make it a potential absorber layer of solar cells. …”
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Fabrication of a Miniature Zinc Aluminum Oxide Nanowire Array Gas Sensor and Application for Environmental Monitoring by Chin-Guo Kuo, Chi-Wu Huang, Jung-Hsuan Chen, Yueh-Han Liu

“…A miniature n-type semiconductor gas sensor was fabricated successfully using zinc aluminum oxide nanowire array and applied to sense oxygen. …”
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Surface Electric Potential Measurement with a Static Probe by R. I. Vorobey, O. K. Gusev, A. I. Zharin, V. A. Mikitsevich, K. U. Pantsialeyeu, A. V. Samarina, A. I. Svistun, A. K. Tyavlovsky, K. L. Tyavlovsky

“…Surface electric potential measurements are widely used in non-destructive inspection and testing of precision surfaces, for example, in the production of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. Features of the construction and application of devices for measuring the surface electric potential using an immovable reference electrode are considered. …”
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Characteristics of electrical properties of nanocrystalline systems of zinc and cadmium selenides by V. V. Danshina

“…It is shown that the calculated values correlate with the experimental ones, which will make it possible to predict the stability of the operation of semiconductor devices.…”
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Optical Mode Calculation in Large-Area Photonic Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers by Mindaugas Radziunas, Eduard Kuhn, Hans Wenzel, Ben King, Paul Crump

“…Our technique is applied to the example of large-area all-semiconductor PCSELs, showing how it can be used to optimize device performance.…”
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An Asynchronous Low Power and High Performance VLSI Architecture for Viterbi Decoder Implemented with Quasi Delay Insensitive Templates by T. Kalavathi Devi, Sakthivel Palaniappan

“…The functionality of the proposed asynchronous design is simulated and verified using Tanner Spice (TSPICE) in 0.25 µm, 65 nm, and 180 nm technologies of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacture Company (TSMC). The simulation result illustrates that the asynchronous design techniques have 25.21% of power reduction compared to synchronous design and work at a speed of 475 MHz.…”
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The Effect of Metal Shielding Layer on Electrostatic Attraction Issue in Glass–Silicon Anodic Bonding by Wenqi Yang, Yong Ruan, Zhiqiang Song

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Porous Silicon Formation by Electrochemical Etching by Оrest Kuntyi, Galyna Zozulya, Mariana Shepida

“…The influence of MNPs and metallic nanostructures on the process of localized metal-activated anodic etching of a semiconductor is analyzed.…”
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Photoactivity of Titanium Dioxide Foams by Maryam Jami, Ralf Dillert, Yanpeng Suo, Detlef W. Bahnemann, Michael Wark

“…Foam structures seem to be a good means of improving the photoactivity of semiconductor materials and can readily be used for applications such as air purification devices.…”
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Valency-Based Descriptors for Silicon Carbides, Bismuth(III) Iodide, and Dendrimers in Drug Applications by Qi-Zhao Li, Abaid ur Rehman Virk, Kashif Nazar, Imran Ahmed, Iskander Tlili

“…Silicon carbide (SiC), also called carborundum, is a semiconductor containing silicon and carbon. Dendrimers are repetitively branched molecules that are typically symmetric around the core and often adopt a spherical three-dimensional morphology. …”
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A Virtual Fabrication and High-Performance Design of 65 nm Nanocrystal Floating-Gate Transistor by Thinh Dang Cong, Trang Hoang

“…Floating-gate transistor lies at the heart of many aspects of semiconductor applications such as neural networks, analog mixed-signal, neuromorphic computing, and especially in nonvolatile memories. …”
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A fault‐diagnosis and tolerant control technique for five‐level cascaded H‐bridge inverters by Pavan Mehta, Subhanarayan Sahoo, Mayank Kumar

“…The consequences of faults increase as the number of power semiconductor devices increases and may lead to serious damage to the overall system. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Modeling of Hot Carrier Injection in 40 nm CMOS Transistors by Xhesila Xhafa, Ali Dogus Gungordu, Mustafa Berke Yelten

“…This paper presents a machine-learning-based approach for the degradation modeling of hot carrier injection in metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). Stress measurement data have been employed at various stress conditions of both n- and p-MOSFETs with different channel geometries. …”
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Correlation between Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Structural Properties of Amorphous Tunisian Metanacrite Synthetic Material by Nouha Jaafar, Hafsia Ben Rhaiem, Abdessalem Ben Haj Amara

“…Therefore, by combining ac and dc electrical conductivity, a semiconductor behavior is evidenced. The dependence of the dielectric constant (ε′) and dielectric loss (ε″) on both temperature and frequency is also discussed.…”
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