Performance Evaluation of the Fiber-Reinforced Cement Composites Blended with Wheat Straw Ash by Abdul Qudoos, Zahid Ullah, Atta-ur-Rehman, Zafar Baloch

“…Mortar specimens were fabricated and investigated for the compressive, flexure, and indirect tensile strengths, ultrasonic pulse velocity, chloride migration resistance, and carbonation resistance. …”
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Optimizing microstructure for enhanced performance: A novel approach to EMI shielding with thin Mg98.5Zn0.5Y alloy sheets by Z.X. Feng, G.Y. Zhang, J.L. Dong, T.M. Li, Z.S. Chen, J. Cao, X.H. Chen, J.H. Yi, F.S. Pan

“…The growing demand for lightweight, high-performance, cost-efficient electro-magnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials, driven by advancements in 5G telecommunications, electric vehicles, and wearable electronics, has prompted the development of a 0.8 mm Mg98.5Zn0.5Y alloy sheet with a unique lamellar structure. Fabricated via asymmetrical warm rolling, this alloy demonstrated outstanding EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) of 100–105 dB across the 30–1500 MHz range, outperforming other materials and thicker magnesium alloys. …”
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A 10 GHz Dual-Loop PLL With Active Cycle-Jitter Correction Achieving 12dB Spur and 29% Jitter Reduction by Yu-Ping Huang, Yu-Sian Lu, Wei-Zen Chen

“…An experimental prototype has been fabricated in a TSMC 40 nm CMOS process. By activating the ACJC, the spurious tones can be reduced by 12 dB when a 260MHz disturbance is injected without resort to sophisticated calibration. …”
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Effects of Homogenization Scheme of TiO2 Screen-Printing Paste for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Seigo Ito, Kaoru Takahashi, Shin-ich Yusa, Takahiro Imamura, Kenji Tanimoto

“…TiO2 porous electrodes have been fabricated for photoelectrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using TiO2 screen-printing paste from nanocrystalline TiO2 powder dried from the synthesized sol. …”
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Dual-Band 2 × 2 MIMO Antenna with Compact Size and High Isolation Based on Half-Mode SIW by Abubaker Ahmed Elobied, Xue-Xia Yang, Ningjie Xie, Steven Gao

“…A prototype of the MIMO antenna is fabricated and its performance is measured. The measured results show that the resonant frequencies are centered at 4.43 and 5.39 GHz with bandwidths of 110 and 80 MHz and peak gains of 6 and 6.4 dBi, respectively. …”
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Characterization of Esthetic Orthodontic Wires Made from Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Containing High-Strength, Small-Diameter Glass Fibers by Yasuhiro Tanimoto, Toshihiro Inami, Masaru Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Kasai, Norio Hirayama, Yoshio Aoki

“…In this work, we investigated the properties of a glass-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (GFRTP) composed of small-diameter (ϕ = 5 μm), high-strength glass (T-glass) fibers and polycarbonate for esthetic orthodontic wires formed using pultrusion. After fabricating such GFRTP round wires, the effects of varying fiber diameter (5 to 13 mm) on the mechanical properties, durabilities, and color stabilities were evaluated. …”
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Continuous-Time ΣΔ ADC with Implicit Variable Gain Amplifier for CMOS Image Sensor by Fang Tang, Amine Bermak, Amira Abbes, Mohieddine Amor Benammar

“…The test chip prototype is fabricated using 0.18 μm CMOS process and the measurement result shows an ADC power consumption lower than 63.5 μW under 1.4 V power supply and 50 MHz clock frequency.…”
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Prussian Blue Analogues Derived Hollow FeCoP Nanocubes for Electrocatalytic Overall Water Splitting by Yuzhi LI, Jinyu WANG, Shuai ZOU, Aihong WANG, Huize JIANG, Kaibo WANG

“…Here we demonstrated the fabrication of FeCoP hollow nanocubes by precisely controlling the oxidation-phosphorization processing on Prussian blue analogues. …”
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Algorithm for estimating Cr coating thickness for accident tolerant fuel cladding using a pancake ECT sensor by Jeong Won Park, Daegyun Ko, Hun Jang, Hoyoung Kim, Jaebeom Lee, Wonjae Choi

“…A pancake ECT sensor was designed and fabricated to conduct thickness measurements in the confined spaces of multiple fuel assemblies. …”
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Study on Permeability and Blocking Resistance of Composite Specimen with Double-Layer Permeable Asphalt Mixture by Xiaoge Tian, Huitong Yuan, Ren Zhang, Yichao Xu, Xiaofei Wang

“…In order to study the permeability and antiblocking performance of composite specimens with double-layer permeable asphalt mixture, three types of PAC-10 asphalt mixture with different target porosity (20%, 22%, and 24%) and PAC-16 asphalt mixture with a target porosity of 22% were designed, and the double-layer Marshall specimen was fabricated through “hot + hot” method. Their orthogonal vertical sections were scanned with X-ray CT. …”
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Radiation-Enhancement Properties of an X-Band Woodpile EBG and Its Application to a Planar Antenna by Fabrizio Frezza, Lara Pajewski, Emanuele Piuzzi, Cristina Ponti, Giuseppe Schettini

“…A couple of alumina-woodpile samples have been fabricated. Several results have been collected for the transmission behaviour of the woodpile and of resonators with woodpile mirrors, in a shielded anechoic chamber, by using a vector network analyzer, in the 8–12 GHz range. …”
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Volatolomics for Anticipated Diagnosis of Cancers with Chemoresistive Vapour Sensors: A Review by Abhishek Sachan, Mickaël Castro, Jean-François Feller

“…A focus will be made on the protocols for the collection of organic volatile compounds (VOC) from the body, the choice of vapour sensors assembled into an array (e-nose), in particular, chemo-resistive vapour sensors, their principle, fabrication and characteristics, and the way to extract pertinent features and analyse them with suitable algorithms that are able to find and produce a health diagnosis.…”
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Controllable Nano-Crystallization in Fluoroborosilicate Glass Ceramics for Broadband Visible Photoluminescence by Yuanhang Xiang, Yi Long, Peiying Cen, Sirang Liu, Zaijin Fang, Renjie Jiao

“…Through the introduction of B₂O₃ into fluorosilicate glass, the melting temperature was decreased from 1400 to 1050 °C, and the abnormal crystallization in the fabrication process of fluorosilicate glass was avoided. …”
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Reliability of high-performance monolayer MoS2 transistors on scaled high-κ HfO2 by Hao-Yu Lan, Shao-Heng Yang, Karim-Alexandros Kantre, Daire Cott, Rahul Tripathi, Joerg Appenzeller, Zhihong Chen

“…This two-stage ΔV TH is absent in devices fabricated on exfoliated hBN, suggesting that the donor state generation (negative ΔV TH) is induced by atomic-layer-deposition (ALD) processes in HfO2-based devices. …”
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Physicochemical and Luminescent Properties of Copolymers Composed of Three Monomers: Polythiophenes Based on 3-Hexylthiophene and 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene by Marco Antonio Ramírez-Gómez, Karla Karina Guzmán-Rabadán, Edgar González-Juárez, Marisol Güizado-Rodríguez, Gabriel Ramos-Ortiz, Jorge Enrique Alba-Rosales, Huehueteotl Panzo-Medrano, Victor Barba, Mario Rodríguez, José Luis Maldonado, Miguel Ángel Basurto-Pensado

“…The good nonlinear absorption and luminescent properties exhibited by these copolymers were exploited to fabricate nanoparticles used as fluorescent tags for the imaging of microstructures.…”
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Characteristics of Nanophase WC and WC-3 wt% (Ni, Co, and Fe) Alloys Using a Rapid Sintering Process for the Application of Friction Stir Processing Tools by Daeup Kim, Young Choi, Yongil Kim, Seungboo Jung

“…Microstructures and mechanical characteristics of tungsten carbide- (WC-) based alloys, that is, WC, WC-3 wt% Ni, WC-3 wt% Co, and WC-3 wt% Fe, fabricated using a spark plasma sintering (SPS) method for the application of friction stir processing tools were evaluated. …”
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Coplanar Waveguide Fed Compact Wide Circular-Slotted Antenna for Wi-Fi/WiMAX Applications by M. Samsuzzaman, T. Islam, N. H. Abd Rahman, M. R. I. Faruque, J. S. Mandeep

“…The tuning effects of the rectangular patch, ground size, and SPIL strips to the resonance and matching condition are examined by HFSS and the prototype is fabricated and measured. The simulation and experimental results show that the antenna has an impedance bandwidth with −10 dB reflection coefficients 600 MHz (3.26–3.86 GHz, lower band) and 1040 MHz (5.02–6.26 GHz, upper band), which can cover both the Wi-Fi 5.2/5.5/5.8 GHz and WiMAX 3.3/3.5/3.7/5.8 GHz bands. …”
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Influence of Silver-Zinc Zeolite Incorporation on Shear Bond Strength of Silicon Cold Cure Soft Liner by Huda Alaa Aldeen Sadeq, Israa Mohammed Hummudi

“…Approach: thirty specimens   of silicon cold cure  soft liner were constructed for shear bond- strength test and divided into three groups: Control groups: 10 specimens without incorporation of Ag-Zn Zeolite, Experimental group: 10 specimens with 0.5% by weight of Ag-Zn Zeolite Experimental Group: 10 specimens with 0.75 %by weight of Ag-Zn Zeolite Plastic pattern of acrylic block with dimensions (75 mm length  x 25mm width x 5mm depth )was fabricated and evaluated by Instron testing machine. …”
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Design of tri-band flexible CPW 4-port slot MIMO antenna for conformal 5G, WIFI 6/6E and X-band applications by Chengzhu Du, Fangrui Zhang, Ruomeng Li

“…Four slot antennas are placed orthogonally, and the high isolation of the antenna is achieved by isolated branches made of crossed branches and circles. The antenna is fabricated on a flexible dielectric substrate, and the bending test and human body test results meet the specified requirements. …”
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Durability Improvement of Synthetic Dry Adhesives by Metal Coatings by Gyuhe Kim, Taechang Ahn, Hui Yun Hwang

“…In this study, we suggested a metal coating on synthetic dry adhesives to improve durability. SDAs were fabricated via PDMS. Then, metals such as indium, zinc, and gold were coated on the SDAs. …”
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