Growth of gallium nitride nanowires by low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) by Wang, Jianbo

“…Growth of III-Nitride nanowires on Si, which is the most commonly used substrate in microelectronic industry, using different growth techniques such as conventional Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD), and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) etc. have been explored. Low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD), which is widely used in Si wafer fabs, is of particular interest due to its low cost, ability to handle large size wafer and high throughput. …”
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Ordered hybrid nanoneedle arrays for gas sensing by Liu, Hai

“…In the present thesis, a novel ordered metal/silicon hybrid nanoneedle array is fabricated using an ion beam that patterns the metal/silicon substrate producing a pillar array followed by the self-organization of hybrid nanoneedles. …”
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Comparative analysis of dehydration techniques on phytochemical and antibacterial properties on pink and purple flowers impatiens walleriana by Tan, Suat Hian, Sin, Phin Yin, Ros Azlinawati, Ramli, Mohd Hairul, Ab. Rahim, Nyuk, Ling Ma

“…The antibacterial activity of I. walleriana against E. coli was nearly twice as strong as that of synthetic antibiotics. …”
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Co-seismic ruptures of the 12 May 2008, Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan : East–west crustal shortening on oblique, parallel thrusts along the eastern edge of Tibet by Liu-Zeng, J., Zhang, Z., Wen, L., Sun, J., Xing, X., Hu, G., Xu, Q., Zeng, L., Ding, L., Ji, C., Hudnut, K. W., van der Woerd, J., Tapponnier, Paul

“…The principal rupture, on the NW-dipping Beichuan fault, displays nearly equal amounts of thrust and right-lateral slip. …”
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In-situ power generation and nutrients recovery from waste activated sludge – long-term performance and system optimization by Wu, Dan, Sun, Faqian, Chua, Desmond Feng Jun, Lu, Dan, Stuckey, David Campbell, Zhou, Yan

“…This study reports an integrated sludge treatment and resource recovery system that consisted of a sludge pre-treatment reactor and a microbial fuel cell (MFC) aiming for simultaneous energy and nutrients recovery. Nearly one year performance of the system in terms of power generation, nutrients removal efficiency, key dissolved organic matters (DOMs) transformation and microbial community change were investigated and reported. …”
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Persuasion for protection: an analysis of online safety videos on YouTube by Huang, Liuyu, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Yin, Stella Xin

“…Findings: The findings highlight that the primary focus of these PSAs is on online safety behaviors and general instructions on online hygiene. Interestingly, nearly half of the videos employ a neutral frame, while a significant portion provides no evidential support. …”
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Broadband surface-wave transformation cloak by Xu, Su, Xu, Hongyi, Gao, Hanhong, Jiang, Yuyu, Yu, Faxin, Joannopoulos, John D., Soljačić, Marin, Chen, Hongsheng, Sun, Handong, Zhang, Baile

“…These cloaks consist of specifically designed nonmagnetic metamaterials and achieve nearly ideal transmission efficiency over a broadband frequency range from 0+ to 6 GHz. …”
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Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO’s and Virgo’s third observing run by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…To perform this analysis, we use two methods, one based on cross-correlation of the strain channels in the two nearly aligned LIGO detectors, and one that looks for excess power in the strain channels of the LIGO and Virgo detectors. …”
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Automating Design Requirement Extraction From Text With Deep Learning by Akay, Haluk, Yang, Maria, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Nearly every artifact of the modern engineering design process is digitally recorded and stored, resulting in an overwhelming amount of raw data detailing past designs. …”
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On the largest product-free subsets of the alternating groups by Keevash, Peter, Lifshitz, Noam, Minzer, Dor

“…Moreover, we show that the maximum size is only achieved by these extremal examples, and we have stability: any product-free subset of A n $A_{n}$ of nearly maximum size is structurally close to an extremal example. …”
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Fast Broadcast in Highly Connected Networks by Chandra, Shashwat, Chang, Yi-Jun, Dory, Michal, Ghaffari, Mohsen, Leitersdorf, Dean

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An Analysis Using State Space Global Coherence of Brain Dynamics in a Young Child Under Sevoflurane General Anesthesia by Gallo, Sebastian A.

“…In contrast, SSGC for covariance estimation produced results nearly identical to empirical GC, suggesting that it is more susceptible to noise. …”
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How Much Does It Really Cost? A Dynamic Approach to Building Retrofit Costs for Decarbonization Pathways by Kirkeby, Amanda

“…The scarcity of contemporary cost data and methods for cost prediction at the urban scale makes this question difficult, and further questions around equitable incentive programs nearly impossible to answer. This work demonstrates the concept and relevance of implementing a dynamic cost model in the UBEM context. …”
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Numerical investigation of mineralogical composition effect on strength and micro-cracking behavior of crystalline rocks by Wong, Louis Ngai Yuen, Peng, Jun, Teh, Cee Ing

“…Two mechanisms are identified to initiate the nearly vertical macroscopic fractures which are generated in tension. …”
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Camera domain transfer for video-based person re-identification by Ding, Bangjie

“…Compared to the baseline, the proposed method achieves a nearly 10-point improvement in the mean average precision (mAP), with Rank-5 and Rank-10 achieving 97.6% and 99.1% accuracy, respectively. …”
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Efficient FPGA realization of inner-products of variable vectors by Yan, Yi

“…From the analytical results in this report, it is shown that proposed structures for input word-lengths L = 8 and L = 16, respectively are nearly 5.4% and 36% faster than the reference design (conventional multiplier-based implementation) in average for different inner-product length (N = 8, 16, 32 and 64). …”
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Maximizing airport runway throughput via sequencing arrival schedule by Lin, Chuanwen

“…As a result of this growth, there is a substantial increase in delay at nearly all major airports. Conventional approaches to accommodate the increase in air traffic include building new airports and adding new runways at existing airports. …”
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Slip on the Superstition Hills fault and on nearby faults associated with the 24 November 1987 Elmore Ranch and Superstition Hills earthquakes, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, McGill, Sally F., Allen, Clarence R., Hudnut, Kenneth W., Johnson, David C., Miller, Wayne F.

“…Despite this initial wide distribution of slip, nearly all of the postseismic slip is occurring on the main fault trace. …”
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Essays on the market for corporate bonds by Levonmaa, A

“…This study uses a large dataset of corporate bond transactions from the TRACE database for the US corporate bond market, combined with credit rating changes from Fitch, Moody's and Standard and Poor's (S&amp;P), to analyse over 22,000 bonds, coupled with approximately 28,400 rating events over nearly six years. The results show that the bond market responds to news on credit quality asymmetrically: credit rating downgrades, representing bad news for bond holders, produce the strongest response in returns, whilst upgrades do not generate a statistically significant increase in returns. …”

Two-dimensional transitional metal dichalcongenide heterostructures : interface optical properties by Zheng, ShouJun

“…In the hBN/TMDC/hBN heterostructure, e-beam induced e-h pairs can transfer to and be trapped in the middle TMDC layer, leading to increased recombination probability within the TMDC layer. …”
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