Hybrid Fishnet Metamaterial Based on Liquid Crystal and P-I-N Diodes for Reconfigurable Transmitarrays at <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10 \,\mathrm{GHz}$</tex-math><... by Adrian Diepolder, Lukas Schmidt, Susanne Brandl, Philipp Hinz, Christian Waldschmidt, Christian Damm

“…The biasing network for the liquid crystal is designed for integration in an active-matrix configuration, greatly reducing the complexity of the control circuit. …”
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C3-VQA: Cryogenic Counter-Based Coprocessor for Variational Quantum Algorithms by Yosuke Ueno, Satoshi Imamura, Yuna Tomida, Teruo Tanimoto, Masamitsu Tanaka, Yutaka Tabuchi, Koji Inoue, Hiroshi Nakamura

“…Given the severe constraints on the cooling capacity in cryogenic environments, thermal design is crucial for the scalability of these computers. …”
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Natural Circulation Characteristics of a Symmetric Loop under Inclined Conditions by Xingtuan Yang, Yanfei Sun, Zhiyong Liu, Shengyao Jiang

“…Circulation only takes place in one branch circuit at large inclined angle. Also based on the CFD model, the influences of flow resistance distribution and loop configuration on natural circulation are predicted. …”
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Theoretical Study on the Photoelectric Properties of a Class of Copolymers Based on Benzodithiophene for Solar Cells by Xiao-Hua Xie, Xin-Wei Zhao, Ming Li

“…Furthermore, through comparing the four designed polymers with PBDTTBT, we conclude that the four designed polymers have stronger exciton dissociation ability and larger open-circuit voltage and external quantum efficiencies. …”
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Systematic Decoupling Grid-Forming Control for Utility-Scale Inverter-Based Distributed Energy Resources in Weak Distribution Grids by Lina He, Shiwen Yu

“…The proposed control strategy is cost-effective, communication-free, and can be easily commercialized due to its straightforward and robust circuit design.…”
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FPGA-Based Implementation of All-Digital QPSK Carrier Recovery Loop Combining Costas Loop and Maximum Likelihood Frequency Estimator by Kaiyu Wang, Zhiming Song, Xianwei Qi, Qingxin Yan, Zhenan Tang

“…On the other hand, a systematic design procedure based on FPGA for the proposed ADCRL is also presented.…”
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A Comparator-Less Buck Converter with Fast Transient Response Using a Reactive Ramp Generator by Young-Kyu Kim, Chung-Hee Jang, Dong-Hyun Shin, Kwang-Hyun Baek

“…This paper introduces a voltage-mode DC-DC buck converter designed to address the challenges of high-frequency operation. …”
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SPICE-Level Demonstration of Unsupervised Learning With Spintronic Synapses in Spiking Neural Networks by Salah Daddinounou, Anteneh Gebregiorgis, Said Hamdioui, Elena-Ioana Vatajelu

“…In addition, it uses a dedicated unsupervised learning rule based on optimized Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP). To facilitate the design of the SNN, its training and evaluation, an open-source Python-based platform is developed; it takes as input the SNN parameters and discrete circuit components, and it automatically generates the associated full netlist in SPICE then launches the simulation; moreover, it extracts the simulation results and makes them available in python for evaluation and manipulation. …”
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Determination of minimum secondary winding coils turns for transformer three-phase-multiphase phase number converter by Yu. V. Moskalev

“…Each phase of the secondary winding of the considered converter consists of three coils connected in series placed on three different rods of the magnetic circuit. In order to solve the optimization problem, the interior-point method is used. …”
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MODELING ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF THE MATERIAL REMOVAL RATE OF THE MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON IN THE COURSE OF THE ELETRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING by XIN Bin, LI ShuJuan, LU Xiong, DONG YongHeng, SHI WeiChao

“…Based on the feasibility of the discharge machining of the semiconductor material,it analyze several major factors which influences the material removal rate,including the open circuit voltage,peak current,pulse width and pulse interval.Using central composite design experiments,it inspects the influence of the three factors peak current、pulse width and pulse interval to the material removal rate of the monocrystalline silicon in the course of the electrical discharge machining and establishes a response model of the material removal rate of the monocrystalline silicon in the course of the electrical discharge machining and makes analysis to the response surface. …”
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Research on the Sensitivity Enhancement Method of Inductive Conductivity Sensors Based on Impedance Matching by Yang Li, Rongxing Yu, Zhiqiang Liu, Yujie Gao, Chengxu Tang, Qiao Li, Chao Yuan

“…This paper presents the design and performance evaluation of an inductive conductivity sensor with a double tuning impedance matching network to enhance sensitivity and improve linearity. …”
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Numerical Study of the Air Ingress Accident of the HTR-PM and Possible Mitigation Measures by Wei Xu, Han Zhang, Heng Xie, Lei Shi, Jun Sun

“…The double-ended guillotine break (DEGB) of the horizontal coaxial gas duct of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor is an extremely hypothetical accident, which could cause the air to enter into the primary circuit and react with graphite in the reactor core. …”
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Meta-atoms: From Metamaterials to Metachips by Hao Chi Zhang, Sen Gong, Le Peng Zhang, Yaxin Zhang, Tie Jun Cui

“…The concepts of meta-atoms and metamaterials are also introduced to high-frequency integrated circuit designs to address issues that cannot be solved by traditional methods, since lumped-parameter models become unsustainable at microscopic scales. …”
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A novel gold and SiO2 material based planar 5-element high HPBW end-fire antenna array for 300 GHz applications by Kamili Jagadeesh Babu, Aldhaheri Rabah W., Nella Anveshkumar, Alharbi Khalid H., Sheikh Muntasir M.

“…A gold material of thickness 5 μm is used as the metal, while the SiO2 with a thickness of 60 μm is adopted for the substrate material. Design, parametric analysis, and lumped element circuit models are also explored in this work. …”
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Sliding Mode Controller-Based BFCL for Fault Ride-Through Performance Enhancement of DFIG-Based Wind Turbines by Mehdi Firouzi, Mojtaba Nasiri, Saleh Mobayen, G. B. Gharehpetian

“…To reduce the chattering phenomenon and decrease the reaching time, it used the exponential reaching law (ERL) for designed SMC. Also, the SMC-based BFCL performance is compared with the conventional and PI controller-based BFCL for both symmetrical and asymmetrical short-circuit faults. …”
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RF Performance of Layer-Structured Broadband Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging System by Kunio Sakakibara, Kunihiko Ohkawa, Yutaka Aoki, Nobuyoshi Kikuma

“…This module is composed of a lens antenna and a detector module that consists of a detector circuit and a broadband microstrip-to-waveguide transition. …”
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The Effects of Interdot Spacing and Dot Size on the Performance of InGaAs/GaAs QDIBSC by Sayeda Anika Amin, Md. Tanvir Hasan, Muhammad Shaffatul Islam

“…The device characteristics such as short circuit current density, Jsc, open circuit voltage, Voc, and conversion efficiency, η, have been evaluated. …”
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Optimization and Numerical Modeling of TCO/SnO2/CdS/CdTe Solar Cells by Parinaz Khaledi, Mahdi Behboudnia, Mohammad Karimi

“…Then we studied the effect of layer thickness on the short-circuit current (Jsc), open-circuit voltage (Voc), filling factor (FF), and its efficiency. …”
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A Reconfigurable Systolic Array Architecture for Multicarrier Wireless and Multirate Applications by H. Ho, V. Szwarc, T. Kwasniewski

“…The hardware complexity and throughput of the RSA-based DFT structures have been evaluated and compared against several conventional modular FFT realizations. Designs and circuit implementations of the PE cell and several RSAs configured as DFT and Polyphase filter circuits are also presented. …”
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Dimensional control of interface coupling-induced ferromagnetism in CaRuO3/SrCuO2 superlattices by Li Zhe, Shi Wenxiao, Zhang Jine, Zheng Jie, Wang Mengqin, Zhu ZhaoZhao, Han Furong, Zhang Hui, Xie Liming, Yunzhong Chen, Fengxia Hu, Baogen Shen, Yuansha Chen, Jirong Sun

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