A Process Optimization Method of the Mini-LOCOS Field Plate Profile for Improving Electrical Characteristics of LDMOS Device by Shaoxin Yu, Weiheng Shao, Pei-Xiong Gao, Xiang Li, Rongsheng Chen, Bin Zhao

“…In this work, the effects of the mini-local oxidation of silicon (LOCOS) field plate’s bottom physical profile on the devices’ breakdown performance are analyzed through technology computer-aided design simulations. …”
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Micron-scale imaging using bulk ultrasonics by Loheshwaran Chandran, Mohamed Subair Syed Akbar Ali, Bradley Bobbs, Chandan Dutta, Joseph JD, Enakshi Bhattacharya, Prabhu Rajagopal

“…The development and performance of the silicon-based Fabry–Perot type metalenses with an array of 10 micrometre square holes are discussed. …”
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The effects of deoxidation practice on the quality of thin foil low-carbon steel by Pereira Batista R., Augusto Martins A., Costa e Silva A.L.V.

“…In converter steelmaking of AISI 1006 steel for thin foil products, two tapping practices are used with respect to deoxidation: silicon and manganese additions during tapping and aluminum deoxidation after complete tapping (“semikilled practice”) and aluminum deoxidation during tapping, “fully killed practice”. …”
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The Microstructure and Thermal Conductivity of Pressureless Infiltrated SiCp/Al Composites Containing Electroless Nickel Platings by Aihua Zou, Xianliang Zhou, Xiaozhen Hua, Duosheng Li, Kaiyang Wu

“…A nickel (Ni) coating was deposited on the surface of silicon carbide particles (SiCp) through electroless plating and we characterized the morphology and phase structure of the coating and the pressureless infiltrated SiCp/Al composites. …”
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Intravitreal Ampicillin Sodium for Antibiotic-Resistant Endophthalmitis: Streptococcus uberis First Human Intraocular Infection Report by Raul Velez-Montoya, Dulce Rascón-Vargas, William F. Mieler, Jans Fromow-Guerra, Virgilio Morales-Cantón

“…He was treated with an air-fluid interchange, anterior chamber washout, intravitreal ampicillin sodium (5 mg/0.1 mL), and silicon oil tamponade (5000 ck). The eye was anatomically stabilized, though there was no functional recovery. …”
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Development and Efficiency Analysis of Dual Active Bridge Converter Employing SiC Devices Using TMS 320F280039 by T. Deepti, K. Deepa, Albert Alexander Stonier, Geno Peter, A. Anoop, Vivekananda Ganji

“…By comparing the estimated energy efficiency characteristics with measurements from a prototype 90-W single-phase DAB converter fitted with silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs, the robustness of this approach is exemplified and loss, and efficiency comparison analysis is carried out with conventional switching devices. …”
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Recent Advances in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells by Umer Mehmood, Saleem-ur Rahman, Khalil Harrabi, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, B. V. S. Reddy

“…PV cells directly convert solar radiation into electricity without affecting the environment. Although silicon based solar cells (inorganic cells) are widely used because of their high efficiency, they are rigid and manufacturing costs are high. …”
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation to Investigate the Interaction of Asphaltene and Oxide in Aggregate by Rui Li, Hui Du, Zepeng Fan, Jianzhong Pei

“…In order to analyze the effects of the chemical constitution of aggregate on the AAI, the average structure C65H74N2S2 is selected to represent the asphaltene in asphalt and magnesium oxide (MgO), calcium oxide (CaO), aluminium sesquioxide (Al2O3), and silicon dioxide (SiO2) are selected to represent the major oxides in aggregate. …”
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Unsupervised Learning in a Ternary SNN Using STDP by Abhinav Gupta, Sneh Saurabh

“…Further, we show that a pair of dual-pocket Fully-Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FD-SOI) MOSFETs can be utilized to generate a current, which reduces exponentially with increasing duration of firing events between pre- and post-synaptic neurons. …”
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High-Fidelity Aerothermal Engineering Analysis for Planetary Probes Using DOTNET Framework and OLAP Cubes Database by Prabhakar Subrahmanyam

“…OLAP is an Online Analytical Processing database that has a comprehensive list of atmospheric entry probes and their vehicle dimensions, trajectory data, aero-thermal data and material properties like Carbon, Silicon and Carbon-Phenolic based Ablators. An approach is presented for dynamic TPS design. …”
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Design of Analog Signal Processing Applications Using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor-Based Low-Power Folded Cascode Operational Amplifier by Varsha S. Bendre, A. K. Kureshi, Saurabh Waykole

“…CNFETs are being widely deliberated as probable replacement to silicon MOSFETs also. In this paper, different analog signal processing applications such as inverting amplifier, noninverting amplifier, summer, subtractor, differentiator, integrator, half-wave and full-wave rectifiers, clipper, clamper, inverting and noninverting comparators, peak detector, and zero crossing detector are implemented using low-power folded cascode operational amplifier (op-amp) implemented using CNFET. …”
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The siliconvalization of work. An argentine experience by Patricia Ventrici, Hernan Palermo

“…Cognitive capitalism has sanctioned a new brand of firms and entrepreneurs who subscribe to the “Silicon Valley” model. This model has strongly spread in Latin America, and more specifically in Argentina.…”
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A tunable multi-resonance 2D V-groove metasurface by Zhengqing Qi, Yipin Chen, Tianjing Zhao, Peng Chen, Huizhen Yang

“…In this paper, we propose a theoretical design for a tunable multi-resonance 2D V-groove plasmonic substrate, constructed from an Ag–SiO2–Ag metasurface that incorporates established silicon processing technology. The excellent 2D multi-resonance substrate expands conventional electromagnetic “hotspot” to a “hot line,” thereby providing a larger and more robust coupling regime for SERS detection. …”
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Integrated photonic programmable random matrix generator with minimal active components by Kevin Zelaya, Mostafa Honari-Latifpour, Mohammad-Ali Miri

“…We experimentally demonstrate these results using a silicon-based photonic circuit with tunable thermal phase shifters and waveguide lattices as mixing layers. …”
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Hall‐effect sensors based on AlGaN/GaN heterojunctions on Si substrates for a wide temperature range by Sagnik Kumar, R. Muralidharan, G. Narayanan

“…Abstract The authors report experimental investigations on Hall sensors based on AlGaN/GaN heterojunctions grown on silicon 111 (Si 111) substrates. Realisation of two‐dimensional electron gas‐based Hall sensors on Si substrates can have the advantages of low cost and integrability with complementary metal‐oxide semiconductor circuits. …”
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Optimization of aluminum 6061 surface integrity on dry-running machining CNC milling using Taguchi methods by Rifky Maulana Yusron, Mohamad Imron Mustajib, Imam Hanafi

“…Aluminum 6061 is an aluminum alloy, which contains aluminum as main entails, then magnesium and silicon are mixed as alloying elements. It had a good capability for corrosion resistance, heat treatable, formed, and welded. …”
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Flexible terahertz beam manipulation and convolution operations in light-controllable digital coding metasurfaces by Min Jia, Chao Zhao, Hui Wang, Weiran Sun, Yuncheng Lu

“…In this work, we design and implement a wireless optically controlled tunable coding metasurface by integrating photosensitive silicon into the metasurface, which realizes the ultra-fast dynamic switching effect of terahertz beam and dynamic convolution operation of 2-bit coding metasurface. …”
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VO2 based polarization-independent dual-wavelength plasmonic switches using U and C shaped nanostructures by Kirti Dalal, Yashna Sharma

“…Abstract We have proposed vanadium dioxide (VO2) based polarization-independent dual-wavelength plasmonic switches using a periodic combination of U and C shaped gold nanostructures on a gold coated silicon dioxide (SiO2) substrate with a thin VO2 film as spacer between the nanostructures and the underlying substrate. …”
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Fabrication of Hybrid Diamond and Transparent Conducting Metal Oxide Electrode for Spectroelectrochemistry by Jingping Hu, James Hodge, Arthur J. Boff, John S. Foord

“…As a second route, a diamond membrane in silicon frame was prepared by selective chemical etching, and a diamond optically transparent electrode (OTE) was constructed by assembling the diamond membrane on the top of an ITO-coated substrate. …”
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Application of computational modeling to the kinetics of precipitation of aluminum nitride in steels by e Silva Costa A., Nakamura L., Rizzo F.

“…The correct description of the precipitation of AlN in both phases is relevant to: (a) the precipitation at higher temperatures, in the austenite field, that occurs in some steels, (b) the concurrent precipitation of this nitride with the annealing treatment, when the steel is mostly ferritic, used in the processing of some types of deep drawing steels (c) the precipitation of this nitride in some silicon alloyed electric steels at relatively high temperatures, when these steels can have significant fractions of BCC and FCC in their microstructure. …”
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