TWO-FREQUENCY CROSS-SLOT ANTENNA WITH RESONANT COLD ELECTRON BOLOMETERS FOR APPLICATION IN CORE SPACE MISSION by L. S. Kuzmin, A. V. Chiginev

“…The aim of the present paper is the numerical modeling of the two-frequency planar cross-slot antenna designed for operation in the receiving system of the orbital telescope Cosmic Origins Explorer (COrE), developed by the European Space Agency to measure the CMB.The proposed antenna is a planar metal layer on the dielectric substrate, and comprising a set of four slots intersecting each other at right angles. …”
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Effect of plasma assisted combustion on emissions of a premixed nitrous oxide fuel blend by Boj N. Villanueva, Po-Hung Lin, Yueh-Heng Li, Jaime P. Honra

“…This study sought to utilize Nanosecond Pulsed Dielectric Barrier Discharge plasma as an emission control mechanism as not only has it found success as a pollution control mechanism, but also as a combustion enhancement one. …”
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Radar Characterization of Salt Layers in Europa's Ice Shell as a Window Into Critical Ice‐Ocean Exchange Processes by N. S. Wolfenbarger, D. D. Blankenship, D. A. Young, K. M. Scanlan, C. J. Chivers, D. Findlay, G. B. Steinbrügge, K. Chan, C. Grima, K. M. Soderlund, D. M. Schroeder

“…Both missions are equipped with ice‐penetrating radars which will transmit radio waves into the subsurface, recording reflections from interfaces defined by contrasts in ice shell dielectric properties. Assuming an MgSO4 ocean, we show that salt layers, formed through the freezing of subsurface liquid water reservoirs, can be detected by ice‐penetrating radar instruments on Europa Clipper and JUICE. …”
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Classification of RTV-coated porcelain insulator condition under different profiles and levels of pollution by Ali Ahmed Salem, Samir Ahmed Al-Gailani, Abdulrahman Ahmed Ghaleb Amer, Mohammad Alsharef, Mohit Bajaj, Ievgen Zaitsev, Razali Ngah, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim

“…The criteria, which are the flashover voltage (x1), fifth to third harmonics of leakage current (x2), maximum electric field (x3), total harmonic index (x4), insulation resistance (x5) and dielectric loss (x6), were proposed for evaluating the insulator’s string condition. …”
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Mathematical modeling of service life of cables polymer insulation by D. A. Polyakov, M. A. Kholmov, D. I. Plotnikov, K. I. Nikitin, U. V. Polyakova

“…In real conditions, the service life of the listed types of insulation can be different due to their dielectric and design features.…”
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An Omni-Directional Wideband Patch Antenna with Parasitic Elements for Sub-6 GHz Band Applications by Liton Chandra Paul, Himel Kumar Saha, Tithi Rani, Md. Zulfiker Mahmud, Tushar Kanti Roy, Wang-Sang Lee

“…Rogers RT 5880 is used as the dielectric substrate tier. The simulated operating band of the MPA ranges from 2.67 GHz to 4.20 GHz, covering the N77 and N78 bands with a centre operating frequency of 3.29 GHz. …”
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A Free-Space-Based Model for Predicting Peanut Moisture Content during Natural Drying by Xin Xu, Ying Sun, Yuanyuan Yin, Yiwei Xue, Fangyan Ma, Chao Song, Hang Yin, Liqing Zhao

“…The Shandong peanut Luhua 22 was used to examine the effects of varying moisture content, bulk density, and porosity on the relative permittivity of the peanut at a signal frequency of 5.8 GHz. The peanut dielectric constant, porosity, and bulk density were used as inputs and peanut kernel moisture as outputs. …”
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Influence of Electrodes Configuration on Metallized Film Capacitor Performance Metrics by Belko V.O., Cheng Lu, Kalmykova S.I., Pechnikov A.V., Plotnikov A.P.

“…The breakdown strength of polymer films with various metallization thickness was determined using common dielectric testing methodology. We found out that the breakdown strength follows Weibull distribution and slightly depends on vacuum sputtered metal thickness, unlike previous studies results. …”
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Multiferroic and Optical Properties of La0.05Li0.85NbO3 and LiNbO3 Nanocrystals by Carlos A. Díaz-Moreno, Jorge A. López, Yu Ding, A. Hurtado Macias, Chunqiang Li, Ryan B. Wicker

“…Moreover, the uses of magnetic oxides in electronic technology have become so important due to the miniaturization of devices and magnetic materials with dielectric properties or vice versa being required for inductors, information storage, thin films for high-density computer memories, microwave antireflection coatings, and permanent magnets for automobile ignitions among others. …”
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Large exciton binding energy in a bulk van der Waals magnet from quasi-1D electronic localization by Shane Smolenski, Ming Wen, Qiuyang Li, Eoghan Downey, Adam Alfrey, Wenhao Liu, Aswin L. N. Kondusamy, Aaron Bostwick, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Liuyan Zhao, Hui Deng, Bing Lv, Dominika Zgid, Emanuel Gull, Na Hyun Jo

“…Utilizing state-of-the-art angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and self-consistent ab-initio GW calculations, we present direct spectroscopic evidence supporting electronic localization and weak dielectric screening as mechanisms contributing to the amplified exciton binding energy. …”
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Microstructural and Optical Characterization of Heterostructures of ZnS/CdS and CdS/ZnS Synthesized by Chemical Bath Deposition Method by Temesgen Geremew, Tizazu Abza

“…The CdS/glass and CdS/ZnS thin films have more imaginary dielectric components than the real part. The optical conductivity of the single layer and heterojunction films is in the order of 1015 1/s. …”
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Inkjet-printed electronics for rapid and low-cost prototyping of digital microfluidic devices using an off-the-shelf printer by Babak Kamali Doust Azad, Amirhossein Roozbahani, Seyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Amirali Valinejad, Alireza Fazelian, Kimia Shahmoradi, Fatemeh Khatami, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir, Mohammadreza Kolahdouz

“…Functional DMF chips are fabricated using tape, parafilm, and SU8 as dielectric and silicone oil as the hydrophobic layers, enabling actuation voltages as low as 144 VDC and 92 VAC@100 kHz for a whole-blood droplet. …”
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Characteristics and mechanism of MBT anomaly of Karakum desert related with the Hindu Kush earthquake by Yifan Ding, Ziqing Wang, Yuan Qi, Wenfei Mao, Qiqi Zhang, Lixin Wu

“…The upward transfer of P-hole particles, activated in the deep hypocenter area by accumulated crustal stress during the pre-, co- and after-EQ period, to the Quaternary surface along the stress gradient, was believed to have reduced the local ground surface dielectric constant and amplified the microwave radiation, which leading subsequently to the positive MBT anomalies. …”
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Structural, Electronic, Elastic, Mechanical, and Opto-Electronic Properties for ZnAg2SnS4 and ZnAg2Sn0.93Fe0.07S4 Photocatalyst Effort on Wastewater Treatment through the First Pri... by Mohammad Jahidul Islam, Md. Sabbir Hasan Sohag, Unesco Chakma, Ajoy Kumer, Md. Monsur Alam, Mohammed Nazrul Islam Khan

“…The study of the elastic constant and mechanical constant revealed that these crystals are extremely stable in any environment. The dielectric constant and optical absorptions illustrate the superior evidence for photocatalytic activity. …”
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SPR Biosensor Based on Bilayer MoS₂ for SARS-CoV-2 Sensing by Talia Tene, Stefano Bellucci, Cristian Vacacela Gomez

“…Key parameters, including the thickness of the silver layer, silicon nitride dielectric layer, molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) layers, and ssDNA recognition layer, were systematically optimized to achieve the best balance between sensitivity, resolution, and attenuation. …”
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Investigation of Structural, Electrical, and Vibrational Properties of Bi1.98A0.02Fe4O9 (A = Ba, Ce) Multiferroic Ceramics by Ashwini Kumar, Poorva Sharma, Nikhil Bhardwaj, Jingyou Tang, Guolong Tan

“…The crystallite size and morphology of the nanoparticles have been analyzed using scanning electron microscope (SEM). Dielectric constant (ε′) decreases as the frequency increases, and it is constant at the higher frequency region which can be explained based on the ionic conduction phenomenon in the low frequency region. …”
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Theoretical and Experimental Comparison Results of Dual-Channel 3D Quasi-Optical Network System between Frequency Selective Surface and Wire Grid Polarizer by Hai Wang, Xiaoming Liu, Junsheng Yu, Zejian Lu, Xiaodong Chen

“…The design principles and test results of FSS with perforated hexagonal array and WGP printed on the dielectric substrate are discussed together. In order to evaluate channel performance, the output planar near-fields of QON system are simulated and tested by the four reflections and three transmission results, respectively, where both scalar and vector conversion efficiencies are used to evaluate the quality of output beams. …”
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Design and fabrication of (Hf0.25Zr0.25Ta0.25Nb0.25)C–SiC ceramics with improved microwave absorbing properties via PDC route by Bin Du, Saidi Wang, Linwei Guo, Yimin Ouyang, Hanwei Cheng, Yajuan Cheng, Tao Zhang

“…The development of advanced and efficient microwave-absorbing materials through the precise regulation of dielectric loss and impedance matching remains a significant challenge. …”
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Experimental Comparison of HfO_2/X-Based ReRAM Devices Switching Properties by the MIM Capacitance by Fernando Jose da Costa, Aseel Zeinati, Renan Trevisoli, Durga Misra, Rodrigo Trevisoli Doria

“…An increase in the capacitance from 3.904 to 3.917 pF/<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>m2 was observed for the same device when it was subjected to a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$144~\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>s pulse width, demonstrating a conductance quantization required for the application in in-memory computing systems. Also, the dielectric constant modulates due to the migration of oxygen atoms inside the device&#x2019;s insulator.…”
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A tunable encoder with circular dichroism and polarization encoding function based on a layered metastructure in the GHz range by Chuan-Qi Wu, Jun-Yang Sui, Qi Chen, Xing-Zhou Tang, Hai-Feng Zhang

“…The incident angle and external magnetic field intensity are θ and HO. A modulable dielectric layer (MDL), composed of YIG, is optionally added to the preceding item of the given metastructure, which owns a certain thickness. …”
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