Fast and Versatile Pathway in Fabrication of Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Nanofiltration Membrane with Tunable Properties by Ahmad M. Alghamdi

“…Thin film composite nanofiltration (NF) membranes are relatively new membranes compared to other types of pressure-driven membranes. …”
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Fabrication and Electrochemical Behavior Investigation of a Pt-Loaded Reduced Graphene Oxide Composite (Pt@rGO) as a High-Performance Cathode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Viet Hai Le, Thai Hoang Nguyen, Huu Hieu Nguyen, Le Thanh Nguyen Huynh, An Le Vo, Thi Kim Tuyet Nguyen, Duc Thinh Nguyen, Vinh Quang Lam

“…A platinum-reduced graphene oxide thin film composite (Pt@rGO, 100 nm) was prepared on a fluorine-doped tin oxide- (FTO-) coated glass substrate by a screen printing method using a Pt@rGO screen printing paste (0.12% Pt; Pt/rGO=1.5 w/w). …”
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In Vitro Bioactivity of Binary Nepheline-Fluorapatite Glass/Polymethyl-Methacrylate Composite by Dalia Y. Zaki, Esmat M. A. Hamzawy

“…A scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (SEM/EDX) and thin film X-ray diffraction analysis was used to evaluate the composite materials after immersion in SBF. …”
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Broadband Loop Antenna on Soft Contact Lens for Wireless Ocular Physiological Monitoring by Ssu-Han Ting, Bo-Ming Jeng, Wen-Shan Chen, Jin-Chern Chiou, Ching-Hsing Luo

“…The antenna is fabricated on a thin-film poly-para-xylylene C (parylene C) substrate with a small thickness of 11 μm and dimension of π×6.5×6.5 mm2. …”
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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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Effects of Commercial Antioxidants on Aging Resistances of Asphalt Binders by Xijie An, Ying Gao, Zizhen Dong, Qinglin Guo, Lili Li, Yancang Li

“…The basic properties of modified asphalt before and after the rolling thin film oven test (RTFOT) are evaluated by penetration, softening point, ductility, and viscosity. …”
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An AMOLED AC-Biased Pixel Design Compensating the Threshold Voltage and I-R Drop by Ching-Lin Fan, Hui-Lung Lai, Yan-Wei Liu

“…We propose a novel pixel design and an AC bias driving method for active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AM-OLED) displays using low-temperature polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistors (LTPS-TFTs). The proposed threshold voltage and I-R drop compensation circuit, which comprised three transistors and one capacitor, have been verified to supply uniform output current by simulation work using the Automatic Integrated Circuit Modeling Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (AIM-SPICE) simulator. …”
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Flexible Surface Acoustic Wave Device with AlN Film on Polymer Substrate by Jian Zhou, Shurong Dong, Hao Jin, Bing Feng, Demiao Wang

“…Surface acoustic wave device with c-axis-oriented aluminum nitride (AlN) piezoelectric thin films on polymer substrates can be potentially used for development of flexible sensors, flexible microfluidic applications, microsystems, and lab-on-chip systems. …”
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A New Simple Chaotic Lorenz-Type System and Its Digital Realization Using a TFT Touch-Screen Display Embedded System by Rodrigo Méndez-Ramírez, Adrian Arellano-Delgado, César Cruz-Hernández, Rigoberto Martínez-Clark

“…Finally, the DV of NCS was implemented, in real-time, by using a novel embedded system (ES) Mikromedia Plus for PIC32MX7 that includes one microcontroller PIC32 and one thin film transistor touch-screen display (TFTTSD), together with external digital-to-analog converters (DACs).…”
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Global Shutter and Charge Binning With Quantum Dots Photodiode Arrays for NIR Imaging by Loic Baudoin, Arthur Arnaud, Sebastien Massenot, Pierre Magnan

“…This architecture allows to control the charge collection inside the CQD thin film through the electric field. This property enables to implement global shutter functionality, to bin charges from several photodiodes, or to operate two physically interleaved photodiodes arrays alternatively with different types of pixel circuitries. …”
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Model Calculation of Enhanced Light Absorption Efficiency in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Phosphor Films by Taehun Kim, Sanghoon Lee, Kyungtaek Min

“…In this study, we modeled a two-dimensional (2D) PhC quantum dot (QD) film with a square-lattice structure using the finite-difference time-domain method to theoretically investigate its optical properties. The embedment of a thin-film layer with a high refractive index on the surface of the QD film enables an effective localization of excitation light within the phosphor. …”
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E. coli Bacteriostatic Action Using TiO2 Photocatalytic Reactions by Thammasak Rojviroon, Sanya Sirivithayapakorn

“…The findings showed that both photocatalytic thin films possessed the ideal physical characteristics, especially the SP-TiO2 thin film. …”
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Synthesis and Electrochemical Capacitor Characterization of Novel Composite Materials with p-Type Conductive Polymer by Narges Ajami

“…Nanocomposite MnO2/poly(o-aminophenol) thin film was synthesized by using pulse potential electrodeposition technique on a graphite electrode. …”
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Generation and Characterization of an Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Jet (APPJ) and Its Application in the Surface Modification of Polyethylene Terephthalate by Hom Bahadur Baniya, Rajendra Shrestha, Rajesh Prakash Guragain, Mohan Bahadur Kshetri, Bishnu Prasad Pandey, Deepak Prasad Subedi

“…An atmospheric-pressure plasma jet (APPJ) has a lot of applications in recent years such as in material processing, surface modification, biomedical material processing, and thin film deposition. APPJ has been generated by a high-voltage power supply (0-20 kV) at an operating frequency of 27 kHz. …”
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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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PMMA Sandwiched Bi2Te3 Layer as a Saturable Absorber in Mode-Locked Fiber Laser by Guobao Jiang, Yuan Zhou, Lulu Wang, Ying Chen

“…Nanosheets of Bi2Te3 as a bulk topological insulator were successfully synthesized through a solvothermal treatment and self-assemble method to form a thin film at a water-air interface. In order to transfer the Bi2Te3 self-assembly layer to the optical fiber end, we design a construction of two PMMA layers sandwiched self-assembly layer. …”
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High-Accuracy Surface Profile Measurement Based on the Vortex Phase-Shifting Interferometry by Donge Zhao, Chaozheng Jia, Yayun Ma, Xuefeng Yang, Bin Zhang, Wenbo Chu

“…Then, the vortex lights with initial phases of 0, π/2, π, and 3π/2 are used to measure the H-type thin film sample based on the Twyman-Green interference system after correcting the nonlinear phase modulation characteristics. …”
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Design Method of Infrared Stealth Film Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Kunyuan Zhang, Delian Liu, Shuo Yang

“…Furthermore, we coated the Si surface with the designed thin film and conducted experimental validation. The results show that the coated material exhibits excellent infrared stealth properties.…”
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Transparent Inflatable Column Film Dome for Nuclear Stations, Stadiums, and Cities by Alexander Bolonkin, Shmuel Neumann, Joseph Friedlander

“…In a series of previous articles, one of the authors published designs of the AB Dome which can cover a city, important large installations or subregions by a transparent thin film supported by a small additional air overpressure. …”
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A Study on Surface Modification of Al7075-T6 Alloy against Fretting Fatigue Phenomenon by E. Mohseni, E. Zalnezhad, Ahmed A. D. Sarhan, A. R. Bushroa

“…The methods include deep rolling, shot peening, laser shock peening, and thin film hard coatings. The surface coatings techniques are comprising physical vapor deposition (PVD), hard anodizing, ion-beam-enhanced deposition (IBED), and nitriding.…”
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