Graphene metamaterials for intense, tunable, and compact extreme ultraviolet and X-ray sources by Pizzi, Andrea, Rosolen, Gilles, Wong, Liang Jie, Ischebeck, Rasmus, Soljačić, Marin, Feurer, Thomas, Kaminer, Ido

“…For 5 MeV electrons, a metamaterial of 50 layers and length 50 µm, and a beam current of 1.7 µA, it is, for instance, possible to generate X-rays of intensity 1.5 × 107 photons sr-1 s-1 1%BW, 580 times more than for a single-layer design. …”
Get full text

Design of wideband low-loss reconfigurable reflectarray antenna by Zhang, Xiran

“…A systematic investigation of beam scanning antenna technology is conducted, analyzing the characteristics of different beam scanning antenna designs. …”
Get full text

Design and fabrication of micromachined RF switches and integrated switching circuits by Tang, Min

Get full text

Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The loss of either a penultimate-internal (PI) or a penultimate-external (PE) column is the most critical scenario since it leaves the associated beam-slab floor structures with lack of external lateral support. …”
Get full text

Control system design for EPTB by Tan, Sing Guan

“…Previous research was mainly on the Indoor air quality (IAQ) and the negative ion air performance on passive thermosiphon beam (PTB). This is because thermal comfort is only one of the many factors that contribute to good IAQ. …”
Get full text

TORCH — an innovative high-precision time-of-flight PID detector for the LHCb upgrade by Föhl, K, Brook, N, García, LC, Cowie, EN, Cussans, D, Forty, R, Frei, C, Gao, R, Gys, T, Harnew, N, Piedigrossi, D, van Dijk, M

“…Preparations for the upcoming test beam are discussed. Optical design studies have been performed for using one of the available bar boxes of the BaBar DIRC detector containing assembled quartz radiator bars in a future test beam experiment.…”

100 THz optical switching with plasmonic metamaterial by Venkatram, Nalla, Stefano, Vezzol, João, Valente, Sun, Handong, Nikolay, Zheludev

“…Alloptical modulation is control of the phase or intensity of one light beam by another.1 Although modulation can be achieved using nonlinear optical materials, it can be also obtained using constructive or destructive interference of a coherent beam. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

A perspective on the role of point-of-care "immuno-triaging" to optimize COVID-19 vaccination distribution in a time of scarcity by Zhang, Yi, Rogers, Angela, Nadeau, Kari, Gu, Jun, Yang, Samuel

“…Vaccine bears hope to bring COVID-19 pandemic under control. …”
Get full text

Functional genetics of cancer and congenital disorders by Zak, J

“…An integrative analysis of cancer genomic data revealed that <em>PPP1R13B</em>, encoding ASPP1, bears many hallmarks of a tumour suppressor gene, despite being mutated at a low absolute frequency. …”

Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…Multiple reflections of the laser beam have been developed by employing the ray-tracing model to simulate the keyhole-mode melting phenomenon. …”
Get full text

Design, modeling and performance optimization of active air terminal system by Ke, Ji

“…Among various ACMV schemes, the active air terminals (active chilled beam and active thermosiphon beam) have outstanding performance on energy saving, indoor environment quality improvement and space saving. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Integrated photonic devices for realizing photonic quantum computing: part 1: FDTD (quantum devices) by Muhammad Faris Zikri Bin Zainal

“…To advance photonic quantum computing, this report focuses on the usage of integrated photonic devices, namely beam splitters functioning as directional couplers. …”
Get full text

Laser scanning imaging system for underwater robotics vehicle by Xu, Lin

“…Various illumination volume settings of a laser beam are tested and their output images are evaluated by the MTF (modulation transfer function) assessment. …”
Get full text

Selective Laser Melting of Metal Powders Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulation by Tang, C., Li, B., Wong, C. H.

“…Cu atoms were heated up by a mobile laser beam and subsequently cooled down by a Ni-base plate underneath them. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Ultra-thin bulk silicon thinning of advanced microprocessors & graphics processors fabricated in Sub-20 nm technology by Teo, Wee Siang

“…In particular, initial fault isolation techniques exploit infrared laser beams to probe the circuitry through silicon thinned mechanically to 50 um. …”
Get full text

Caustic object construction based on multiple caustic patterns by Tandianus, Budianto, Johan, Henry, Seah, Hock Soon

“…Working backward, from the computed refracted light beam paths we compute the geometry of the caustic object that can produce such light beam paths. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Programmable morphing, electroactive porous shape memory polymer composites with battery-voltage Joule heating stimulated recovery by Lai-Iskandar, S., Li, Wenhao, Tsang, S. H., Lee, Y. H., Teo, Edwin Hang Tong

“…Our method can be compatible with kirigami techniques for the design of hierarchical and combinatorial shape-change structures. 3DC not only serves as an intrinsic heater but, during synthesis, its cell walls also act as a confinement framework for architecting porosity within 3DC-eSMPCs, which can be actuated with low-voltage (7.5 V, <2 W). …”
Get full text

Experimental and numerical study of self-locking adaptable inter connection for modular steel structures by Nadeem, Gohar, Safiee, Nor Azizi, Bakar, Nabilah Abu, Karim, Izian Abd, Mohd Nasir, Noor Azline

“…The results showed that reinforced joints sustained 80% of the limit of the rigid joint at an inter-story drift ratio of 0.04 radian and satisfied the condition for strong column weak beam joint mechanism. Non-linear Finite Element Analysis (FEA) was conducted on this adaptable connection with a parametric study to study more influences of other related parameters. …”

Nanostructure silver absorbance with polarized light spectroscopy (PLS) and mobile imaging by Liu, Xinzhi, Shafie, Suhaidi

“…Silver nanofilms were deposited using electron beam evaporation (EBE) and subsequently analyzed for their absorbance across the visible light spectrum through PLS spectroscopy. …”

Investigation of Electrochemical Gas Generation in Ion Electrospray Thrusters by Shaik, Saba Z., Lozano, Paulo C.

Get full text