Inhibition of Anti-Reflection Film Cracks on Plastic Substrates Using Nanolaminate Layer Deposition in Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition by Chi-Chieh Wang, Cheng-Fu Wang, Meng-Chi Li, Li-Chen Su, Chien-Cheng Kuo

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X-Ray-Induced Changes to Passivation Layers of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes by Benjamin T. Young, David R. Heskett, Joseph C. Woicik, Brett L. Lucht

“…Variable energy, synchrotron radiation (SR), permits access to information not available to common lab-based radiation sources, making high-energy PES studies extremely useful for understanding thin films and interfaces. High-SR photon flux has been useful for developing models of soft X-ray-induced effects, but hard X-ray SR-induced effects are less well studied and will be increasingly important as popularity and availability of SR for thin film analysis continues to grow. …”
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Optimization of the Cathode Arc Plasma Deposition Processing Parameters of ZnO Film Using the Grey-Relational Taguchi Method by Shuo-Fu Hsu, Jyh-Horng Chou, Chun-Hsiung Fang, Min-Hang Weng

“…The results indicate that, by using the grey-relational Taguchi method, the optical transmittance of ZnO thin films increases from 88.17% to 88.82% and the electrical resistivity decreases from 5.12×10-3Ω-cm to 4.38×10-3Ω-cm, respectively.…”
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Passive highly dispersive matching network enabling broadband electromagnetic absorption by Pardha S. Nayani, Morteza Moradi, Pooria Salami, Younes Ra’di

“…Abstract In numerous applications from radio to optical frequencies including stealth and energy harvesting, there is a need to design electrically thin layers capable of perfectly absorbing electromagnetic waves over a wide bandwidth. …”
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Nonrigid Medical Image Registration by Finite-Element Deformable Sheet-Curve Models by Jianhua Xuan, Yue Wang, Matthew T. Freedman, Tulay Adali, Peter Shields

“…Specifically, deformable curves are constructed to match the boundaries dynamically, while a deformable sheet of thin-plate splines is designed to model complex local deformations. …”
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Fabrication of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with a 3D Nanostructured Electrode by Guo-Yang Chen, Ming-Way Lee, Gou-Jen Wang

“…RF magnetron sputtering was then used to deposit a 3D nanostructured ITO thin film on the template. The crystallinity and conductivity of the 3D ITO films were further enhanced by annealing. …”
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Surface plasmon resonance detection of anti-cancer drug flutamide by graphitic carbon nitride/chitosan nanocomposite by Hassan Nasiri, Karim Abbasian

“…In acidic conditions, the kinetic profile yielded a KD= 3.45 × 10−7, surpassing the KD value of a thin film. The Au significantly outperformed the alternative material. …”
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Study on constraint of mixed mode crack and failure assessment diagram of pressure-bearing structure by MIAO Xinting, LIU Guoxu, ZHANG Jinbo, PENG Jian, BIE Fengfeng

“…The crack tip constraint and failure assessment diagram （FAD） in both plate specimen and pipe structure were studied to find out the compatibility and correlation of between the sample and piple.Based on the finite element method, constraints at crack tip of central cracked plate （CCP） specimen and cracked pressure pipe were obtained.It was found that crack tip constraint of CCP specimen under uniaxial loading is better matched with thick-walled pipeline under axial tensile loading, while CCP specimen under biaxial loading is better matched with thin-walled pipeline under internal pressure.In addition, the failure assessment diagram of CCP specimen and pipeline were obtained.It was found that FAD of CCP specimen is less related with thickness, when the thickness of pipe is within the range of thick wall or thin wall; was also pointed out that stress parallel to the crack direction increases the failure assessment curve （FAC） of the structure. …”
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Membranes of Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity PIM-1 for Gas Separation: Modification Strategies and Meta-Analysis by Boya Qiu, Yong Gao, Patricia Gorgojo, Xiaolei Fan

“…Key perspectives for progressing PIM-1 thin film membranes towards practical applications are suggested.…”
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Temperature and Temperature Stress Design in the Sides of Moving Melts Passages by R. I. Esman

“…The analysis of heat and thermo-stressed state of plane channels with moving melts of liquid metals is carried out.The developed mathematical model and numerical experiment allow to determine the main control parameters of special types of casting for fabricating thin pieces by pressing, liquid stamping methods and low pressure die and regulated casting.…”
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Soil data from the Barbastro-Balaguer gypsum belt, NE SpainMendeley Data by Juan Herrero, María Tierra, Carmen Castañeda

“…The dataset [1] contains the scans in .TIFF format of 150 whole thin sections of the soils, under both plane polarized light (PPL) and cross polarized light (XPL). …”
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Improvement in Device Performance and Reliability of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes through Deposition Rate Control by Shun-Wei Liu, Chih-Chien Lee, Yu-Ting Chung, Jiun-Haw Lee, Chin-Ti Chen, Juen-Kai Wang

“…In our optimized device, 55 nm of Bebq2 was first deposited at a faster deposition rate of 1.3 nm/s, followed by the deposition of a thin Bebq2 (5 nm) layer at a slower rate of 0.03 nm/s. …”
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Simple Program to Investigate Hysteresis Damping Effect of Cross-Ties on Cables Vibration of Cable-Stayed Bridges by Panagis G. Papadopoulos, Andreas Diamantopoulos, Haris Xenidis, Panos Lazaridis

“…A short computer program, fully documented, is presented, for the step-by-step dynamic analysis of isolated cables or couples of parallel cables of a cable-stayed bridge, connected to each other and possibly with the deck of the bridge, by very thin pretensioned wires (cross-ties) and subjected to variation of their axial forces due to traffic or to successive pulses of a wind drag force. …”
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Sensitive Electrochemical Detection of Glucose at Glucose Oxidase-Cobalt Phthalocyanine-Modified Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode by Takeshi Kondo, Masaru Horitani, Makoto Yuasa

“…A poly(p-phenylenediamine) (PPD) thin film containing GOx was coated on the CoPc-BDD electrode surface via electropolymerization. …”
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Dynamic tuning of terahertz atomic lattice vibration via cross-scale mode coupling to nanomechanical resonance in WSe2 membranes by Bo Xu, Zejuan Zhang, Jiaze Qin, Jiaqi Wu, Luming Wang, Jiankai Zhu, Chenyin Jiao, Wanli Zhang, Juan Xia, Zenghui Wang

“…Our findings show that such 2D NEMS offer great promises for exploring cross-scale physics in atomically-thin semiconductors.…”
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OPTICAL METHOD AND SET-UP FOR THE THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY MEASURMENT OF SOLID STATE MATERIALS by I. G. Kisialiou, E. V. Ivakin

“…Application of light-induced thermal transient gratings for measurement of thermal diffusivity of solid state materials including thin films is presented. Laser-optical set-up, which allows non-contact measurement of thermal diffusivity by transient gratings′ method is described. …”
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Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oils extracted from Amomum muricarpum Elmer from North Vietnam by Dau B. Thin*, Vu Q. Thanh**, Bui B. Thinh

The Influence of Buckling Mode and Buckling Stability Coefficient of Rigid-Frame Bridge during Construction in Cold Region by Jiangjiang Li, Xuanyu Zhang, Xiandong Wang

“…The results show that with the increase of the bridge height, the overall stability factor of the bridge is decreasing, and the safety factor of the single-limb thin-walled hollow pier is relatively larger than that of the double-limb thin-walled hollow pier. …”
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Unilateral Upper Cervical Cord Infarction: A Report of Two Cases with Mild Neurological Symptoms Accompanying a Small Ischemic Lesion Detected by Brain MRI by Manabu Wada, Hikaru Nagasawa, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi

“…The present report indicated that the use of thin-section coronal DWI when performing brain MRI may be helpful for the diagnosis of small, unilateral, upper cervical cord infarctions.…”
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Lepidocollema brisbanense (C. Knight) P.M. Jørg., a new record of a corticolous lichen (Pannariaceae, Peltigerales) for Indonesia by Fandri S. Fastanti, Ainun Nadhifah, Muhammad R. Hariri, Suharja, Atik Retnowati

“…This species is characterized by foliose grey thallus with black rhizohyphae; apothecia with thalline margins, pale red-brown discs; ascospores simple, with a thin, smooth wall. Other details of the morphology, image of fresh material and microscopic characters are provided.…”
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