Investigating the charge separation and transport in iron based photoanodes for solar-driven water splitting by Bassi, Prince Saurabh

“…To inhibit the surface recombination probability, we employed surface passivation technique by coating hematite nanorods with a very thin Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) grown TiOx overlayer which resulted in manifold enhancement in its performance. Owing to inability of Fe2O3 to reduce water due to its lower conduction band level than the water reduction potential, iron based photoanodes based on Fe-Ti-O systems were explored. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of Algan/Gan high electron mobility transistors on silicon by Tham, Wai Hoe

“…Examples of these limitations can be seen in the power density and clock speed of silicon CMOS processors, where it hits saturation at about 100 W/cm2 and 4 GHz respectively. Owing to such limitations, the margin of improvement achieved by transistor scaling is no longer substantial. …”
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Brain computer interface for post-stroke motor rehabilitation by Mane, Ravikiran Tanaji

“…In BCI systems, identification of users' intentions is achieved by classifying their brain activation patterns using machine learning algorithms. However, owing to the challenging nature of the brain signals, low classification accuracy remains one of the most important challenges faced by BCI. …”
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A Brewster route to Cherenkov detectors by Lin, Xiao, Hu, Hao, Easo, Sajan, Yang, Yi, Shen, Yichen, Yin, Kezhen, Blago, Michele Piero, Kaminer, Ido, Zhang, Baile, Chen, Hongsheng, Joannopoulos, John, Soljačić, Marin, Luo, Yu

“…Here, we propose a different paradigm for Cherenkov detectors that utilizes the broadband angular filter made from stacks of variable onedimensional photonic crystals. Owing to the Brewster effect, the angular filter is transparent only to Cherenkov photons from a precise incident angle. …”
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Synthesis of densely functionalized pyrroles from unprotected carbohydrates by Xia, Mengxin

“…Carbohydrates are important feedstock owing to their huge natural abundance, cheap price, and interesting properties. …”
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High-quality semiconductor fibres via mechanical design by Wang, Zhixun, Wang, Zhe, Li, Dong, Yang, Chunlei, Zhang, Qichong, Chen, Ming, Gao, Huajian, Wei, Lei

“…As semiconductors are the critical component that governs device performance, the selection, control and engineering of semiconductors inside fibres are the key pathways to enabling high-performance functional fibres. However, owing to stress development and capillary instability in the high-yield fibre thermal drawing, both cracks and deformations in the semiconductor cores considerably affect the performance of these fibres. …”
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Solution based synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles and thin films for solar cell application by Li, Zhenggang

“…Quaternary chalcogenide compound Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) is a promising absorber material for low-cost thin film solar cells owing to the abundance of its constituents, suitable band-gap and high absorption coefficient. …”
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GPU-based commonsense reasoning for real-time query answering and multimodal analysis by Tran, Ha Nguyen

“…In recent years, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become popular computing devices owing to their massive parallel execution power. …”
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HiPIMS deposition of VO2 thermochromic coating for enhanced optical properties by Vu, Tuan Duc

“…The Greta-oto butterfly has transparent wings with extraordinary omnidirectional anti-reflection behaviour, owing to the unusual nanostructures with random height and space distribution on its wing surface which are difficult to reproduce en masse. …”
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Investigation of charge transport in nanofiber based solar cells by Sabba Dharani

“…Dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have garnered a lot of attention owing to their ease of fabrication, low manufacturing costs and good device stability. …”
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Efficient circuit-designs using spintronic devices by Deb, Suman

“…Recently, a great deal of scientific endeavour has been devoted to developing spin-based neuromorphic platforms owing to the ultra-low-power benefits offered by spin devices and the inherent correspondence between spintronic phenomena and the desired neuronal, synaptic behaviour. …”
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Interface engineering for organic−inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells by Foo, Shini

“…As can be seen in the second work, passivation at the ETL/OIHP interface using the heterogeneous ETL showed significant improvement in device reproducibility although further enhancements in device stability and efficiency are desirable. Owing to ionic and soft bonding characteristics of OIHP materials, defects such as under−coordinated ions and dangling bonds tend to concentrate at the OIHP/HTL interface. …”
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Neural combinatorial optimization: from routing to integer programming by Wu, Yaoxin

“…However, most COPs are difficult to solve exactly owing to their NP-hardness. Heuristics thus are often leveraged as a popular class of optimization methods to solve COPs. …”
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Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…IoT devices must be adaptable to these dynamic changes and maintain a stable load on the network. Owing to their low- cost nature and susceptibility to damage, tampering or battery exhaustion, some devices may become faulty leading to unexpected behavior. …”
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Exploiting LoRaWAN for efficient and resilient IoT networks by Gu, Chaojie

“…The greatly increased pervasive connectivity owing to the deployment of these IoT networks will foster the next-generation Internet-based innovations. …”
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Power system adequacy and cost/worth assessment incorporating virtual power plants by Bagchi, Arijit

“…Indiscriminate addition of DERs on the demand side, however, poses a number of visibility and security related challenges for the system operators, primarily owing to the modest capacities most DERs possess (a few kW to a few MW) coupled with the inherent intermittencies associated with renewable resources. …”
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Robust and efficient deep learning methods for vision-based action recognition by Xu, Yuecong

“…Although various image DA approaches have been proposed in recent years, there is limited research towards Video Domain Adaptation (VDA), owing to the complexity in adapting the different modalities of features in videos, which includes both temporal features and spatiotemporal correlation features. …”
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2DEG enhancement via epilayer stress engineering in AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructure by Patwal, Shashank

“…The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the AlGaN/GaN heterointerface can be achieved without doping owing to their polarization properties. Despite their promising device performances for high power and high-frequency applications, they are limited by issues such as self-heating, buffer leakage and reliability. …”
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Exploring the stability and dynamics of nanobubbles by Tan, Beng Hau

“…These nanobubbles appear not to be stabilised by the line pinning or oversaturation that sustain surface nanobubbles. …”
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Effect of dopant solubility and excess doping on the superconducting properties of doped Nb3Sn prepared by field assisted sintering technique by Srivastava, N, Matthews, GAB, Liu, J, Speller, SC, Grovenor, CRM, Santra, S

“…The Y₂O₃ particles was also considered as a possible cause of pinning down of grain boundaries in addition to NbO leading to grain refinement through Zener pinning. …”