Enhanced Laser Damage Threshold in Optically Addressable Light Valves via Aluminum Nitride Photoconductors by Soroush Ghandiparsi, Bikram Chatterjee, Jimmy‐Xuan Shen, Miranda S. Gottlieb, Clint D. Frye, Joseph D. Schneider, Ryan D. Muir, Brandon W. Buckley, Sara E. Harrison, Qinghui Shao, Joel B. Varley, Lars F. Voss

“…Current state‐of‐the‐art OALVs employ photoconductors such as Bismuth Silicon Oxide (BSO) or Bismuth Germanium Oxide (BGO), which suffer from limited laser‐induced damage thresholds (LiDT) and inadequate thermal conductivities, thus restricting their use in high peak and average power applications. …”
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Performance Improvements of Selective Emitters by Laser Openings on Large-Area Multicrystalline Si Solar Cells by Sheng-Shih Wang, Jyh-Jier Ho, Jia-Jhe Liou, Jia-Show Ho, Wei-Chih Hsu, Wen-Haw Lu, Song-Yeu Tsai, Hsien-Seng Hung, Kang L. Wang

“…This study focuses on the laser opening technique used to form a selective emitter (SE) structure on multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si). This technique can be used in the large-area (156 × 156 mm2) solar cells. …”
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Metrological studies of the characteristics of multilayer surface coatings using synchrotron radiation by A. S. Sigov, O. A. Minaeva, S. I. Anevsky, A. M. Lebedev, R. V. Minaev

“…The metrological investigations with synchrotron radiation was concentrated on: – absolute spectral responsivety of silicon photodiodes with multilayer filters for integral radiometers applications; – spectral transmittances of surface layers of photodiodes in the extreme ultraviolet region; – spectral reflectance coefficient of superlattice. …”
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Physics-Based Compact Model of Independent Dual-Gate BEOL-Transistors for Reliable Capacitorless Memory by Lihua Xu, Kaifei Chen, Zhi Li, Yue Zhao, Lingfei Wang, Ling Li

“…Different from classical silicon-based devices, in-depth studies on the performances of nanoscale multi-gate transistors (e.g., a-InGaZnO-FET) are still barely conducted for physical description, due to the complicated multi-gating principle, finite-size effects on transport, increased variation sources and enlarged parasitic effect. …”
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Study on the Influence of Regional Transportation on PM2.5 Based on the RAMS-CMAQ Model in Weihai, a Typical Coastal City of Northern China by Wentao Ning, Zhiwen Xing, Min Wei, Mingyan Li, Meigen Zhang, Houfeng Liu

“…Black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC), and ions (ions here include chloride, sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, aluminium, silicon, titanium, manganese, and other major nonspecific fine particles) were mainly influenced by short-range transportation and local emissions. …”
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Antimony recovery from recycled terminals of lead-acid batteries with Na2CO3 and SiC after firstly SsB2O3 formation by Jiménez-Lugos J.C., Sánchez-Alvarado R.G., Cruz-Ramírez A., Romero-Serrano J.A., Hernández-Ramírez A., Rivera-Salinas J.E.

“…The antimony trioxide was reduced by C present in reagents while silicon and sodium formed a slag phase. The amounts of Sb2O3 and SiC were held constant while the Na2CO3 was evaluated in the range from 30 to 42 wt%. …”
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Coal gasification slag-derived hydrocalumite nanofluids for flow boiling heat transfer enhancement of power electronic devices by Junjie Wu, Junsheng Hou, Li Ma, Lei Huang, Zihan Ding, Hao Zhang, Baiqi Tian, Wenjing Zhou, Zhenzhen Chen, Nanjing Hao

“…Products of CGS utilization mainly include activated carbon, zeolites, silicon-carbon composites. However, the consumption of these products above is limited, which is insufficient to utilize the output thoroughly. …”
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Single soliton microcomb combined with optical phased array for parallel FMCW LiDAR by Jingye Chen, Wenlei Li, Zhe Kang, Zongxing Lin, Shi Zhao, Daixin Lian, Jijun He, Dongmei Huang, Daoxin Dai, Yaocheng Shi

“…We propose and experimentally demonstrate a silicon integrated OPA combined with an optical frequency microcomb for parallel LiDAR system. …”
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Numerical assessment of solar panel with utilizing ferrofluid flow within wavy duct equipped with V-shaped fins by Mohammed A. Tashkandi, Ali Basem, Hussein A.Z. AL-bonsrulah, Lioua Kolsi, Mahmood Shaker Albdeiri, Lotfi Ben Said, Amira M. Hussin

“…As the Hartmann number increases, the temperature across the silicon layer decreases, and the uniformity of the isotherms improves by approximately 5.2 %. …”
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Synthesis of glass-based catalysts for biodiesel production from a blend of beef tallow and waste cooking oil by M. Mashamba, L. Tshuma, L.B. Moyo, N. Tshuma, G.S. Simate

“…All glass-based catalyst samples exhibited strong Si-O-Si vibration stretches around 1100cm−1, confirming the presence of silicon as the glass precursor. The FTIR results of the crude biodiesel samples produced by the catalysts at 15 min intervals showed that the NaOH treated glass-based catalyst exhibited the fastest transesterification reaction.. …”
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Dried and Tested: Inoculation Method Impacts Low-Moisture Food Persistent Bacterial Populations by Manita Adhikari, Kavita Patil, Jennifer C. Acuff

“…With the chosen technique, LMF PBPs of Salmonella Tennessee (0.5: 0.4 [mL Salmonella Tennessee to g Powder]) with different powders (NFDM, peanut butter powder [PB], chicken powder [CP] and silicon dioxide [SiO2]) were made using lawn-based and broth-based cultures and distributed evenly on sterilized stainless-steel coupons to compare the impacts of preparation and food matrix on survival. …”
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Effect of the adhesive added of copper applied with electric current on the ceramic/resin cement bond by Gabriel Augusto Silveira Sousa, Marcos Henrique Ramos da Silva, Lourenço Correr-Sobrinho, Rafael Pino Vitti, Evandro Piva, Rafael Leonardo Xediek Consani

“…After ceramic abrasion with silicon carbide sandpaper, a silane layer was applied for 30 s, waiting for 45 s at room temperature. …”
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Fully CMOS Boost Converter Operating at 2.65 GHz for Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting by Pedro Mendonca Dos Santos, Ricardo Alexandre Marques Lameirinhas, Catarina P. Correia V. Bernardo, Joao Paulo Neto Torres, Antonio Serralheiro, Rafael Vieira, Nuno Lourenco

“…Experimental results also show that the proposed inductor-based fully CMOS DC-DC boost converter has a record low silicon footprint (0.13 mm2) and highest power density (1.1 mW/mm2) when compared with other counterparts resorting to the same boost topology. …”
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Enhancing flame resistance properties and water resistance of rigid polyurethane foam using microencapsulation by Gang Tang, Zedong Gong, Mengru Liu, Yanbei Hou, Kang Tao, Kang Dai, Shihua Zhang

“…This approach improves the compatibility of PAPP with rigid polyurethane foam (RPUF) and incorporates hydrophilic silicone gel (generated SiPAPP), enhancing both flame retardant performance and the synergistic interaction among phosphorus, nitrogen, and silicon elements. …”
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Improvement of engineering properties and environmental impact of fired clay bricks utilizing industry sludge waste by Amir Detho, Aeslina Abdul Kadir, Ahmad Shayuti, Bin Abdul Rahim, Nejib Ghazouani, Abdelkader Mabrouk, Ahmed Babeker Elhag, Hesham Hussein Rassem

“…X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) analysis reveals that both clay soil and mosaic sludge contain high levels of silicon dioxide (SiO₂) and aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃), supporting their suitability as partial substitutes for clay soil. …”
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Smart Driving Hardware Augmentation by Flexible Piezoresistive Sensor Matrices with Grafted‐on Anticreep Composites by Kaifeng Chen, Hua Yang, Ang Wang, Linsen Tang, Xin Zha, Ndeutala Selma Iita, Hong Zhang, Zhuoxuan Li, Xinyu Wang, Wei Yang, Shaoxing Qu, Zongrong Wang

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Study on hot deformation behavior and microstructure evolution of ultrafine W-0.5 wt%La2O3 alloy wire during processing by Yuan Yao, Jianwei Guo, Shizhong Wei, Jinghong Yang, Zhou Li, Hongan Geng, Liujie Xu

“…Tungsten wire with high strength and toughness for silicon wafer cutting in photovoltaic industry is a new hot research content. …”
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Effect of Buffer Charge Redistribution on RF Losses and Harmonic Distortion in GaN-on-Si Substrates by Pieter Cardinael, Sachin Yadav, Bertrand Parvais, Jean-Pierre Raskin

“…While the origin of RF losses and consequently a decreased effective substrate resistivity <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$({\rho }_{eff})$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in GaN-on-Si substrates is now understood to be diffusion of Al and Ga atoms into the silicon substrate during III-N growth, the effect of upper III-N buffer layers on the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\rho }_{eff}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> degradation under stressed conditions remains unclear. …”
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Effect of regular thicknesses on the microstructural and quantitative analysis for a hypo-eutectic ductile iron alloyed with Ni and V by Colin-García E., Sánchez-Alvarado R.G., Cruz-Ramírez A., Suarez-Rosales M.A., Portuguez-Pardo L., Jiménez-Lugos J.C.

“…The low content of vanadium added to the ductile cast iron had a negligible effect on the solidification pattern, which was mainly due to the graphitizing impact of the nickel and silicon addition. The results of the microstructural characteristics are therefore primarily due to the cooling rate, which is determined by the casting thickness. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Coffee Husk Ash as Partial Replacement of Cement in Concrete C30. by Niwainamani, Laban

“…Chemical composition analysed using X-ray Fluorescence method, the combined composition (Silicon diode + Aluminium oxide + Iron (III) oxide = 82.61 %> 70%) which showed pozzolanic nature of CHA. …”
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