Fire resistance of ECC materials by Sim, Tian Qi

“…This is especially significant in an enclosed area, such as tunnels and underground caverns. In this project, Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) with Hybrid fibres was explored to determine its suitability for such use. …”
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A research study on human response to alert trigger in air traffic control radar display by Lee, Yu Jie

“…Past research studies have discovered that colours indeed have the capability to guide attention effectively without experiencing tunnelling effect. This project aims to investigate if the integration of Colour Alert will help ATCO in identifying potential collision faster in a simulated congested airspace. …”
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Subsurface profiling using horizontal drilling indices for guided boring method by Khondoker, Md. Tareq Hossain, Yi, Yaolin, Bayat, Alireza

“…As the length of these projects is much smaller than other underground projects (e.g. tunnels), conducting geotechnical investigations for GBM becomes unjustified at times due to budget constraints. …”
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Proton-coupled electron transfer at SOFC electrodes by Williams, Nicholas J, Warburton, Robert E, Seymour, Ieuan D, Cohen, Alexander E, Bazant, Martin Z, Skinner, Stephen J

“…However, the hydrogen oxidation/water electrolysis reaction H2(g) + O2− ⇌ H2O(g) + 2e− must be modeled through concerted electron and proton tunneling events, where we unify the theory of the electrostatic surface potential with proton-coupled electron transfer kinetics. …”
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Hybrid energy harvesting from wind and vibration by Gan, Kenneth Jing-Han

“…Commonly found in buildings would be a combination of wind and vibration energy, for example from vehicles crossing bridges or tunnels. This study will explore the various effects of hybrid energy harvesting involving the combination mentioned above. …”
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Dynamic properties of high-Tc superconducting nano-junctions made with a focused helium ion beam by Couëdo, François, Amari, Paul, Feuillet-Palma, Cheryl, Ulysse, Christian, Srivastava, Yogesh Kumar, Singh, Ranjan, Bergeal, Nicolas, Lesueur, Jérôme

“…At lower temperature and for the highest He irradiation dose, the shot noise contribution must also be taken into account when approaching the tunneling regime. We conclude that these Josephson nano-junctions present the lowest noise level possible, which makes them very promising for future applications in the microwave and terahertz regimes.…”
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Three dimensional numerical manifold method and rock engineering applications by He, Lei

“…A total of ten numerical examples are analyzed in the present thesis, including verification of the 3-D NMM formula, analysis of a discrete blocky system, verification of the contact algorithm, and two scenarios in rock engineering, i.e., stability analysis of rock slopes and tunnels. The proposed 3-D NMM is proved to be a robust, efficient and stable tool with both static and dynamic analysis ability. …”
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A SnO2 nanoparticle/nanobelt and Si heterojunction light-emitting diode by Chen, Rui, Sun, Handong, Dong, Zhili, Ling, Bo, Sun, Xiaowei, Zhao, Jun Liang, Ke, Chang, Tan, Swee Tiam

“…A thin SiO2 intermediate layer was found to be crucial in achieving light emission from a n-SnO2/p-Si heterojunction with large valence band offset (ca. 2.96 eV), by which sufficient potential-energy difference can be maintained between SnO2 and Si, thus facilitating the tunneling injection of holes.…”
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Development of a hoisting safety risk framework based on the STAMP theory and PLS-SEM method by Junjia, Yin, Hizami Alias, Aidi, Azam Haron, Nuzul, Abu Bakar, Nabilah

“…Hoisting is essential for large-scale construction projects, including urban viaducts, high-rise buildings, and undersea tunnels. However, this critical process is subject to frequent safety accidents in China, which result in many casualties and asset losses. …”
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Effect of OFF-state stress induced electric field on trapping in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors on Si (111) by Anand, M. J., Ng, G. I., Arulkumaran, S., Manoj Kumar, C. M., Ranjan, K., Vicknesh, S., Foo, S. C., Syamal, B., Zhou, X.

“…Our analysis shows that under OFF-state stress, the gate electrons are injected and trapped in the AlGaN barrier by tunnelling-assisted Poole-Frenkel conduction mechanism. …”
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Narsarsukite Na2TiOSi4O10 as a low voltage silicate anode for rechargeable Li-ion and Na-ion batteries by Chaupatnaik, Anshuman, Srinivasan, Madhavi, Barpanda, Prabeer

“…Fast lithium (de)insertion without any significant capacity loss can be linked to the rigid endless large tunnels built from the stacked rings of four SiO4 tetrahedra. …”
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Magneto-photoconductivity of three dimensional topological insulator bismuth telluride by Cao, Bingchen, Eginligil, Mustafa, Yu, Ting

“…Among the 3D topological insulators bismuth telluride has unique hexagonal warping and spin texture which has been studied by photoemission, scanning tunnelling microscopy and transport. Here, we report on low temperature magneto-photoconductivity, up to 7 T, of two metallic bismuth telluride topological insulator samples with 68 and 110 nm thicknesses excited by 2.33 eV photon energy along the magnetic field perpendicular to the sample plane. …”
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Characterization of negative bias temperature instability in ultra-thin oxynitride gate P-MOSFETs by Wang, Shuang

“…These deep-level trapped charges are located in the oxide near the Si-SiO2 interface, but of high energy states beyond the electron tunneling energy window and the charge pumping current measurement capability. …”
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Solution processed transition metal oxides selective contacts for Si heterojunction solar cells by Lu, Chenjin

“…Most importantly, the carrier selectivity of TMOs is believed to be originated from oxygen vacancies related traps, through which carriers are extracted or transported through trap assisted tunnelling across the TMO and Si heterojunction. It has been reported that TMO/a-Si(i)/n-Si HSCs passivated with an a-Si:H layer have efficiency of 22.5 % with improved current performance, which is comparable to typical HIT cells with configuration of a-Si(p)/a-Si(i)/n-Si. …”
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2D-3D perovskite memristor with low energy consumption and high stability for neural morphology calculation by Sun, Kaixuan, Wang, Qingrui, Zhou, Long, Wang, Jingjuan, Chang, Jingjing, Guo, Rui, Tay, Beng Kang, Yan, Xiaobing

“…A defect-modulated electron tunneling mechanism is demonstrated using the p-i-n junction model, and it is proven that the conductance state of the memristive device is determined by the defect concentration in the perovskite film near the electrode sides. …”
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Direction finding for UWB RFID system in dense cluttered environments by Luo, Yanjia

“…It becomes challenging due to abundant multipath and obstacles in dense cluttered environments, such as enclosed areas, tunnels or under-ground. Ultra-wide band (UWB) radio frequency identification (RFID) system provides a promising solution in these global-positioning-system (GPS-) denied environments due to a number of advantages such as low duty cycle, multipath immunity and low cost. …”
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Ultra-thin oxide films by Hu, X

“…</p> <p>Experimental techniques used in this thesis include scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), low energy electron diffraction (LEED), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). …”

Orbital stability in a classical pilot-wave system by Liu, Nicholas Z.

“…These phenomena include tunnelling, diffraction and wave-like statistics. This thesis focuses on the features responsible for the quantisation of orbital radii, and rationalises this quantisation in terms of the stability of circular orbits arising in the presence of a rotating frame and a central force. …”
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Electron radiation-induced material diffusion and nanocrystallization in nanostructured amorphous CoFeB thin film by Liu, Binghai, Tahmasebi, Taiebeh, Ong, Kenny, Teo, Hanwei, Mo, Zhiqiang, Lam, Jeffrey, Tan, Pik Kee, Zhao, Yuzhe, Dong, Zhili, Houssameddine, Dimitri, Wang, Jacob, Xue, Junming, Mai, Zhihong

“…Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is widely used for physical characterization of CoFeB based magnetic tunneling junctions (MTJ) with its atomic-scale resolution. …”
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Ordered hybrid nanoneedle arrays for gas sensing by Liu, Hai

“…For example, iron/silicon nanoarray provides abundant surface states for efficient gaseous electron tunneling, and polarized platinum nanocrystallites enhance the local electric field sufficient to direct ionization, respectively. …”
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