Improved Excitation Light Rejection Enhances Small-Animal Fluorescent Optical Imaging by Kildong Hwang, Jessica P. Houston, John C. Rasmussen, Amit Joshi, Shi Ke, Chun Li, Eva M. Sevick-Muraca

“…To assess excitation leakage, the “out-of-band ( S (Λ x ))” to “in-band ( S (Λ m )– S (Λ x ))” signal ratio from phantom studies and the target-to-background ratio (TBR) from in vivo animal imaging was acquired with and without collimating optics. …”
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Wideband, Low-Profile, Dual-Polarized Slot Antenna with an AMC Surface for Wireless Communications by Wei Hu, Rui-Na Lian, Zhao-Yang Tang, Ying-Zeng Yin

“…The isolation between the two input ports keeps higher than 29 dB whereas the cross-polarization levels basically maintain lower than −30 dB across the entire frequency band. High front-to-back ratios better than 22 dB and a stable gain higher than 8 dBi are obtained over the whole band.…”
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New Choke Ring Design for Eliminating Multipath Effects in the GNSS System by Daming Lin, Encheng Wang, Jie Wang

“…The measured results show that the choke has good resistance to a multipath effect in the navigation frequency band (1.1–1.7 GHz) and can significantly improve the front-to-back ratio of the antenna.…”
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Graded Carrier Concentration Absorber Profile for High Efficiency CIGS Solar Cells by Antonino Parisi, Riccardo Pernice, Vincenzo Rocca, Luciano Curcio, Salvatore Stivala, Alfonso C. Cino, Giovanni Cipriani, Vincenzo Di Dio, Giuseppe Ricco Galluzzo, Rosario Miceli, Alessandro C. Busacca

“…Our results show that, in uniform CIGS cell, the efficiency, the open circuit voltage, and short circuit current heavily depend on CIGS band gap. Our numerical analysis highlights that the band gap value of 1.40 eV is optimal, but both the presence of Molybdenum back contact and the high carrier recombination near the junction noticeably reduce the crucial electrical parameters. …”
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Classification Based Treatment of Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (GTPS) with Integration of the Movement System by Ashley E. Disantis, RobRoy L. Martin

“…Greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) refers to pain in the lateral hip and thigh and can encompass multiple diagnoses including external snapping hip (coxa saltans), also known as proximal iliotibial band syndrome, trochanteric bursitis, and gluteus medius (GMed) or gluteus minimus (GMin) tendinopathy or tearing. …”
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Pressure-dependent current transport in vertical BP/MoS2 heterostructures by Ofelia Durante, Sebastiano De Stefano, Adolfo Mazzotti, Loredana Viscardi, Filippo Giubileo, Osamah Kharsah, Leon Daniel, Stephan Sleziona, Marika Schleberger, Antonio Di Bartolomeo

“…The rectifying characteristics present a kink in the forward region revealing different conduction mechanisms, namely drift-diffusion and band-to-band tunneling. Furthermore, when used as a transistor, the device shows n-type conduction, high gate modulation with ON/OFF ratio of 106, low off-state current of 10−14A and mobility of 1.6 cm2 V−1 s−1. …”
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Simplified Printed Log-Periodic Dipole Array Antenna Fed by CBCPW by Guohua Zhai, Yong Cheng, Qiuyan Yin, Shouzheng Zhu, Jianjun Gao

“…The prototype of the proposed CBCPW-fed printed log-periodic array at Ka band is designed and fabricated; the measured data are in good agreement with the simulated results.…”
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Design of Optically Transparent Antenna with Directional Radiation Patterns by Yuan Yao, Wanzhong Chen, Xiaodong Chen, Junsheng Yu

“…The antenna can operate at the on-board dedicated short-range communication band from 5.725 GHz to 5.85 GHz. Simulations and measurements are carried out to study the antenna performances in terms of impedance matching, gain, and radiation patterns. …”
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Circularly Polarized Triband Printed Quasi-Yagi Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Applications by Dalia M. Elsheakh, Magdy F. Iskander

“…Achieved characteristics include −10 dB impedance bandwidth at the desired bands, circular polarization axial ratio AR<3 dB, front to back ratio of 6 dB, gain value of about 4 dBi, and average radiation efficiency of 60%. …”
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Transconjunctival correction of involutional entropion: A video demonstration by Neelam Pushker, B. Mounica, Sahil Agrawal

“…The presence of the following signs is suggestive of weakness, that is, higher eyelid resting in primary gaze, eyelid fails to retract on down gaze (normal excursion of the lower eyelid is 3–4 mm), increase in the depth of inferior fornix, and presence of white infratarsal band of retractors separated from the lower tarsal border by a pinkish orbicularis band. …”
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Investigation of the Performance of a Sb2S3-Based Solar Cell with a Hybrid Electron Transport Layer (h-ETL): A Simulation Approach Using SCAPS-1D Software by Pierre Gérard Darel Kond Ngue, Ariel Teyou Ngoupo, Aimé Magloire Ntouga Abena, François Xavier Abomo Abega, Jean-Marie Bienvenu Ndjaka

“…Finally, by combining high performance and thermal stability, the results show that the thermal stability of the solar cell depends on the back contact type; thus, nickel (Ni) was found to combine high performance and better thermal stability among the back contacts investigated. …”
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Yagi Array of Microstrip Quarter-Wave Patch Antennas with Microstrip Lines Coupling by Juhua Liu, Yue Kang, Jie Chen, Yunliang Long

“…A set of microstrip lines are introduced between the driven element and the first director element to enhance the coupling between them, and therefore the bandwidth could be increased and the back lobes could be suppressed. Measured results show that the Yagi array with 4 elements generates a peak gain of about 9.7 dBi, a front-to-back ratio higher than 10 dB, and a 10 dB return loss band from 4.68 GHz to 5.24 GHz, with a profile of 1.5 mm and an overall size of 80 × 100 mm2. …”
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Optimization Design of Phononic Crystals Based on BPNN-MPA in Applied Mathematical Analysis by Peiyun Ge

“…Traditional finite element analysis methods have the problem of expensive and unstable band structure diagram calculation when generating phononic crystals. …”
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Design of Honeycomb Microperforated Structure with Adjustable Sound Absorption Performance by Shanlin Yan, Jinwu Wu, Jie Chen, Qibo Mao, Xiang Zhang

“…In this work, a double-layer honeycomb microperforated structure with adjustable back-cavity’s height is designed based on cylinder honeycomb structure and microperforated panel (MPP). …”
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Magnetic-Electric Dipole Antenna with Circular Polarization Feature and Directional Pattern with Improved Bandwidth by Seied Ali Banihashem, Pejman Mohammadi, Yashar Zehforoosh

“…The maximum total gain of the antenna in the designed frequency band is about 10 dBi..…”
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A Transient UWB Antenna Array Used with Complex Impedance Surfaces by A. Godard, L. Desrumaux, V. Bertrand, J. Andrieu, M. Lalande, B. Jecko, V. Couderc, M. Brishoual, R. Guillerey

“…The conception of a novel Ultra-Wideband (UWB) antenna array, designed especially for transient radar applications through the frequency band (300 MHz–3 GHz), is proposed in this paper. …”
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Investigation of Range Profiles from a Simplified Ship on Rough Sea Surface and Its Multipath Imaging Mechanisms by Siyuan He, Fan Zhang, Weidong Hu, Lei Zhuang, Xingbin Ye, Guoqiang Zhu

“…The range profiles of a two-dimension (2 D) perfect electric conductor (PEC) ship on a wind-driven rough sea surface are derived by performing an inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) on the wide band backscattered field. The rough sea surface is assuming to be a PEC surface. …”
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Shock Wave Attenuation Characteristics of Aluminum Foam Sandwich Panels Subjected to Blast Loading by Jinglin Xu, Jianqing Liu, Wenbin Gu, Xin Liu, Tao Cao

“…The apparent overall “X” crushing band is produced in the aluminum foam core, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) observation clearly shows the collapse of the cell wall. …”
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A Rectangular Planar Spiral Antenna for GIS Partial Discharge Detection by Xiaoxing Zhang, Yefei Han, Wei Li, Xuetao Duan

“…Certain effective techniques such as rectangular spiral structure, bow-tie loading, and back cavity structure optimization during the antenna design process can miniaturize antenna size and optimize voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) characteristics. …”
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On broadband, linear-phase, flat group delay, all-pole, low-pass filters for high-speed, data communication by Mihai Sanduleanu, Dan Cracan

“…Measurement results show an in-band OIP3 of 8.8 dBm and a nearly linear phase response at a power consumption of 35 mW to 50 mW from a 1V supply. …”
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