Gain Enhancement of a Multiband Resonator Using Defected Ground Surface on Epoxy Woven Glass Material by Md. Shahidul Alam, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Haslina Arshad

“…For practical validation, a lab prototype was built on a 1.6 mm thick epoxide woven glass fabric dielectric material which is measured using a vector network analyzer and within an anechoic chamber. …”
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Effect of the Application of Cold Plasma Energy on the Inactivation of Microorganisms, Proteins, and Lipids Deterioration in Adobera Cheese by Blanca Rosa Aguilar Uscanga, Montserrat Calderón Santoyo, Juan Arturo Ragazzo Sánchez, Mario Iván Alemán Duarte, Julia Aurora Pérez Montaño, Edgar Balcázar-López, Josué Raymundo Solís Pacheco

“…Plasma as a nonthermal inactivation technique has been a current research topic for food preservation, so the objective of this work was to study the effect of plasma energy against microorganisms in Adobera cheese (traditional Mexican cheese) as well as evaluate the possible degradation of lipids and protein. 108 CFU/mL of Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Salmonella ATCC13076, and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538 were inoculated at 0.5 g of Adobera cheese and were subjected to an energy of 30 volts, in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor (DBDR) at intervals of times 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 15 min. …”
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Comparative Study of SiO2, Al2O3, and BeO Ultrathin Interfacial Barrier Layers in Si Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Devices by J. H. Yum, J. Oh, Todd. W. Hudnall, C. W. Bielawski, G. Bersuker, S. K. Banerjee

“…In this paper, we compare the electrical characteristics of inserting an ultrathin interfacial barrier layer such as SiO2, Al2O3, or BeO between the HfO2 gate dielectric and Si substrate in metal oxide semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) and n-channel inversion type metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs). …”
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Highly Compact GCPW-Fed Multi-Branch Structure Multi-Band Antenna for Wireless Applications by Ikhlas Ahmad, Wasi Ur Rehman Khan, Sadiq Ullah, Naveed Mufti, Abdullah G. Alharbi, Niamat Hussain, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Mariana Dalarsson

“…In this work, we present a highly compact multi-branch structure multi-band antenna with a grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW)-fed structure printed on 26 × 13 × 1.6 mm3 sized FR-4 substrate having dielectric constant εr of 4.3 and loss tangent δ of 0.02. …”
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A global approach to detecting and characterizing water leakage in a concrete bridge deck: Parametric study to validate an adapted Full-Waveform Inversion method by Viktoriia Buliuk, Amine Ihamouten, Christophe Heinkele, Xavier Dérobert

“…The method is adaptable and capable of reconstructing both the dielectric and geometric parameters of a multilayered structure with any number of layers and unknown parameters using just a few A-scans (up to 10, depending on the number of parameters and layers). …”
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Estimation of the Postmortem Duration of Mouse Tissue by Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy by Shinobu Ito, Tomohisa Mori, Hideko Kanazawa, Toshiko Sawaguchi

“…However, ESR spin trap method is unsuited to analyze weak ESR signals in organs because of water-induced dielectric loss (WIDL). To minimize WIDL occurring in biotissues and to improve detection sensitivity to free radicals in tissues, ESR cuvette was modified and used with 5,5-dimethtyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO). …”
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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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Process-dependent ferroelectric and memristive properties in polycrystalline Ca:HfO2-based devices by C. Ferreyra, M. Badillo, M. Badillo, M. J. Sánchez, M. J. Sánchez, M. Acuautla, B. Noheda, B. Noheda, D. Rubi

“…For pyrolysis temperature of 300°C, the annealed samples are ferroelectric while for 400°C a dielectric behavior is observed. For each case, we found a distinct, forming-free, memristive response. …”
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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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Effect of Microchannel Depth on Subcooled Flow Boiling Instability and Heat Transfer by N. Shah, A. Prajapati, H. B. Mehta, J. Banerjee

“…Experiments are conducted using dielectric water boiling in multiple parallel microchannels with mass fluxes of 220 and 320 kg/m²s and wall heat fluxes ranging from 25 kW/m² to 338 kW/m². …”
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Moiré band structure engineering using a twisted boron nitride substrate by Xirui Wang, Cheng Xu, Samuel Aronson, Daniel Bennett, Nisarga Paul, Philip J. D. Crowley, Clément Collignon, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Raymond Ashoori, Efthimios Kaxiras, Yang Zhang, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Kenji Yasuda

“…Additionally, we demonstrate the tunability of the moiré potential by altering the dielectric thickness underneath the twisted BN. Finally, we find that near-60°-twisted bilayer BN also leads to moiré band features in bilayer graphene, which may come from the in-plane piezoelectric effect or out-of-plane corrugation effect. …”
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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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