Asymmetric Four-Terminal Solar Concentrator Improving Power Collection in Bifacial Solar Cells by Floriana Morabito, Daniela Fontani, Paola Sansoni, Salvatore Lombardo, Andrea Farina, Silvia Maria Pietralunga

“…A prerequisite for this is the effective collection of backscattered diffuse light from albedo, to which self-shading is an obstacle. …”
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Enhanced U-Net for Underwater Laser Range-Gated Image Restoration: Boosting Underwater Target Recognition by Peng Liu, Shuaibao Chen, Wei He, Jue Wang, Liangpei Chen, Yuguang Tan, Dong Luo, Wei Chen, Guohua Jiao

“…Underwater optical imaging plays a crucial role in maritime safety, enabling reliable navigation, efficient search and rescue operations, precise target recognition, and robust military reconnaissance. …”
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Microwave Radar Sensing of Sea Waves: An Effective Reflection Coefficient by Karaev Vladimir, Panfilova Mariya Andreevna, Titchenko Yu., Meshkov Evgeniy Mihaylovich, Kovaldov Dmitry, Xiuzhong Li, Yijun He

“…At the small incidence angles, the dominant backscattering mechanism for sea waves is the quasi-specular backscattering mechanism. …”
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Design of a Double-Matched Cross-Polar Single Antenna Harmonic Tag by Alessandro DiCarlofelice, Antonio DiNatale, Emidio DiGiampaolo, Piero Tognolatti

“…Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has gained significant attention in various industry sectors due to its potential for efficient inventory management, asset tracking, and object localization. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL TRIAL OF USING THE SCIENTIFIC MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER DESIGNED TO DETECT FISH IN A WILD FIELD OF VIEW by G. M. Abdurakhmanov, A. A. Teymurov, A. A. Gadzhiev, A. N. Dolgov, A. N. Kutsenko, M. A. Raskita, S. V. Tretyakov

“…Values of the volume backscattering coefficient obtained both from the multibeam echosounder and the Simrad EK60 echosounder are rather close. …”
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Ultra-wideband unidirectional pseudospin-polarized waveguide with dual boundary conditions by Haddi Ahmadi, Kazem Zafari, Mohammad Pasdari-Kia, Nasrin Razmjooei, Kamalodin Arik, Zahra Ahmadi, Mahdi Nooshyar, Hamid Nezamdoost, Hamed Saghaei, Farzaneh Sadat Ghoreishi, Homayoon Oraizi

“…By enforcing electromagnetic duality, the proposed structure establishes mirror reflection symmetry, significantly reducing backscattering and ensuring robust one-way wave propagation. …”
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A Fine Agricultural Flood Segmentation Model for HJ-2E S-Band SAR Data by Mingyang Song, Lu Xu, Nanhuanuowa Zhu, Zihuan Guo, Haoxuan Duan, Jiahua Teng, Xia Lei, Lijun Zuo

“…Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), with its all-weather, all-time observation capabilities and unique backscattering characteristics for water bodies, has become a primary data source for flood mapping. …”
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All-optical modulator with photonic topological insulator made of metallic quantum wells by Wang Haiteng, Niu Junru, Chen Qiaolu, Zhao Sihan, Shao Hua, Yang Yihao, Chen Hongsheng, Li Shilong, Qian Haoliang

“…Since PTIs have attracted significant attention because of their unidirectional propagating edge states, which mitigate optical backscattering caused by structural imperfections or defects. …”
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Thermally tunable add-drop filter based on valley photonic crystals for optical communications by Sun Lu, Li Xingfeng, Hu Pan, Wang Hongwei, Zhang Yong, Tang Guojing, He Xintao, Dong Jianwen, Su Yikai

“…Valley photonic crystals (VPCs) provide an intriguing approach to suppress backscattering losses and enable robust transport of light against sharp bends, which could be utilized to realize low-loss and small-footprint devices for on-chip optical communications. …”
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CC-Former: Urban Flood Mapping from InSAR Coherence with Vision Transformer: Libya and Storm Daniel as Test Case by T. Saleh, T. Saleh, T. Saleh, S. Holail, M. Al-Saad, F. Xu, M. Zahran, G.-S. Xia, G.-S. Xia

“…However, due to the complexity of backscattering mechanisms, SAR-based urban floodwater mapping remains a challenge. …”
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Radar reflection of cloud and weather precipitation at the various waves by Mikhail Rubenovich Vatiashvili

“…Taking into account the wave-length, by means of Сλi the specific particle backscattering area of cloud and weather precipitation (later CWP) ηλ, сm-1 was calculated, and without taking into account the wave-length - radar reflection of CWP (Z, mm6 ∙ m-3) at different units. …”
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Surface Soil Moisture Estimation Taking into Account the Land Use and Fractional Vegetation Cover by Multi-Source Remote Sensing by Rencai Lin, Xiaohua Xu, Xiuping Zhang, Zhenning Hu, Guobin Wang, Yanping Shi, Xinyu Zhao, Honghui Sang

“…The results are as follows: (1) Compared with vertical–horizontal (VH) polarization, vertical–vertical (VV) polarization is more sensitive to soil backscattering (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msubsup><mrow><mi mathvariant="sans-serif">σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>soil</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>). …”
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Two Alternative Methods to Measure the Radiated Emission in a Reverberation Chamber by Qian Xu, Yi Huang, Sheng Yuan, Lei Xing, Zhihao Tian

“…Furthermore, if only one antenna is available, by taking advantage of the enhanced backscattering effect, the measurement can still be completed. …”
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Retrieval of Parameters for Three-Layer Media with Nonsmooth Interfaces for Subsurface Remote Sensing by Yuriy Goykhman, Mahta Moghaddam

“…These matrices are then combined into the generalized scattering matrix for the entire system, from which radar scattering coefficients are then computed. To be efficiently utilized in the inverse problem, the forward scattering model is simulated over a wide range of unknowns to obtain a complete set of subspace-based equivalent closed-form models that relate radar backscattering coefficients to the sought-for parameters including dielectric constants of each layer and separation of the layers. …”
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The Fast Simulation of Scattering Characteristics from a Simplified Time Varying Sea Surface by Yiwen Wei, Lixin Guo, Xiao Meng

“…To reduce the number of the segments and make further improvement on the efficiency of PO method, a simplified sea surface is proposed. …”
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Bounds on the Electromagnetic Dipole Moments through the Single Top Production at the CLIC by M. Köksal, A. A. Billur, A. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez

“…We consider the processes γe-→t¯bνe (γ is the Compton backscattering photon) and e+e-→e-γ⁎e+→t¯bνee+ (γ⁎ is the Weizsacker-Williams photon) as they are one of the most important sources of single top quark production. …”
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Transformation of TiN to TiNO Films via In-Situ Temperature-Dependent Oxygen Diffusion Process and Their Electrochemical Behavior by Sheilah Cherono, Ikenna Chris-Okoro, Mengxin Liu, R. Soyoung Kim, Swapnil Nalawade, Wisdom Akande, Mihai Maria-Diana, Johannes Mahl, Christopher Hale, Junko Yano, Shyam Aravamudhan, Ethan Crumlin, Valentin Craciun, Dhananjay Kumar

“…These findings demonstrate the importance of substrate temperature control in tailoring the properties of TiNO film, which is a fundamental part of designing and optimizing an efficient electrode material.…”
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Multifunction Transceiver for Data Communication, Radar Sensing and Power Transfer by Thomas Micallef, Intikhab Hussain, Ke Wu

“…Recent investigations are directing attention towards the development of systems that serve dual functions, like simultaneous wireless information and power transfer and radar-communication, aimed at boosting operational efficiency and ensuring seamless communication among different wireless capabilities. …”
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Intelligent Pattern Recognition Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors for Smart Environment by Brian Pamukti, Shofuro Afifah, Shien-Kuei Liaw, Jiun-Yu Sung, Daping Chu

“…Additionally, the backscattering method requires the signal to travel twice the normal distance, which can be inefficient. …”
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EVALUATION OF THE OBJECTIVES POLARIZATION DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PASSIVE HINDRANCES WITH THE DEVICE, BASED ON CONSIDERATION OF THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF THE FARADAY ROTATION ANGLE I... by Volodymyr I. Mirnenko, Evgen A.Yufa A. Yufa, Maxim N. Zhuravskij

“…In order to determine the operability of the device under various conditions and to evaluate its efficiency, the signal-to-noise ratio at the output of the device is calculated in the case where the backscattering matrix of the target and the matrix of the interference element (for example, dipole, angle reflector, etc.) are not diagonal, m .e. when a cross-polarization component appears when the signal from the target or from the interference element is reflected.…”
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