Continuously distributed magnetization profile for millimeter-scale elastomeric undulatory swimming by Diller, Eric, Zhuang, Jiang, Zhan Lum, Guo, Edwards, Matthew R., Sitti, Metin

“…The robot is propelled by continuous undulatory deformation, which is enabled by the distributed magnetization profile of a flexible sheet. We demonstrate control of a prototype device and measure deformation and speed as a function of magnetic field strength and frequency. …”
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The two-photon exchange experiment at DESY by Alarcon, R., Beck, R., Bernauer, J. C., Broering, M., Christopher, A., Cline, E. W., Dhital, S., Dongwi, B., Fernando, I., Finger, M., Finger, M., Friščić, I., Gautam, T., Grauvogel, G. N., Hasell, D. K., Hen, O., Horn, T., Ihloff, E., Johnston, R., Kelsey, J., Kohl, M., Kutz, T., Lavrukhin, I., Lee, S., Lorenzon, W., Lunkenheimer, S., Maas, F., Milner, R. G., Moran, P., Nazeer, J., Patel, T., Rathnayake, M., Raymond, R., Redwine, R. P., Schmidt, A., Schneekloth, U., Sokhan, D., Suresh, M., Vidal, C., Yang, Z.

“…The proposed two-photon exchange experiment (TPEX) entails a commissioning run at a beam energy of 2 GeV, followed by measurements at 3 GeV, thereby providing new data up to $$Q^2=4.6$$ Q 2 = 4.6  (GeV/c) $$^2$$ 2 (twice the range of current measurements). …”
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Smart antennas for CDMA systems by Wang, Feng

“…The focus is on channel modeling for smart antennas, evaluation of performance improvement of DS-CDMA systems with smart antennas operating in a hostile multiple environment, and comparative study of various smart antenna beam-forming schemes in DS-CDMA systems.…”
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Investigation of Electrochemical Gas Generation in Ion Electrospray Thrusters by Shaik, Saba Z., Lozano, Paulo C.

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Determination of resorption surface areas of bone sample by Margasanti Wijaya.

“…The main concept here is that a time-varying phase shift is introduced between the interference pattern of the reference beam and the test or sample beam in the interferometer. …”
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Object class recognition by unsupervised scale-invariant learning by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…The flexible nature of the model is demonstrated by excellent results over a range of datasets including geometrically constrained classes (e.g. faces, cars) and flexible objects (such as animals).…”

Development of interactive software (shear force and bending moment) by Wong, Jun Yan

“…This Final Year Project’s goal is to create a software capable of rendering assistance to potential users in the analysis of a beam exposed to assorted load and support conditions while possessing interactive capabilities. …”
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A novel bird-shape broadband piezoelectric energy harvester for low frequency vibrations by Yu, Han, Zhang, Xiaofan, Shan, Xiaobiao, Hu, Liangxing, Zhang, Xingxu, Hou, Chengwei, Xie, Tao

“…This work presents a novel bird-shaped broadband piezoelectric energy harvester based on a two-DOF crossed beam for low-frequency environmental vibrations. …”
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Carbon based materials for MEMS applications by Tan, Chong Wei

“…Many researchers have been trying to control the density of the CNTs growth by using sophisticated and expensive techniques such as electron beam lithography and ion beam bombardment. Density control of CNTs has been demonstrated by a cheap novel combination of steps consisting of annealing, etching and ultraviolet overexposure. …”
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UV/EB curing of epoxy-based composites Epiclon HP-820 and Epolam 5015 by Seah, Javien Jin Ping.

“…UV and e-beam curing of epoxy resin has been extensively researched on due to its significant advantages in the coating, electronic, inks and adhesives industrial applications. …”
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Modeling hemoglobin at optical frequency using the unconditionally stable fundamental ADI-FDTD method by Heh, Ding Yu, Tan, Eng Leong

“…The specific absorption rate (SAR) distribution of human capillary at optical frequency is also shown. …”
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Infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry study of sulfur-doped In0.53Ga0.47As ultra-shallow junctions by Richard D'Costa, Vijay, Subramanian, Sujith, Li, Daosheng, Wicaksono, Satrio, Yoon, Soon Fatt, Tok, Eng Soon, Yeo, Yee-Chia

“…Our results indicate that sub-10 nm sulfur-doped layers with active carrier concentration as high as 1.7 × 1019 cm−3 were achieved. Sheet resistances estimated from infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry are in good agreement with those obtained by electrical methods.…”
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Simulations of radiatively cooled magnetic reconnection driven by pulsed power by Datta, Rishabh, Crilly, Aidan, Chittenden, Jeremy P., Chowdhry, Simran, Chandler, Katherine, Chaturvedi, Nikita, Myers, Clayton E., Fox, William R., Hansen, Stephanie B., Jennings, Chris A., Ji, Hantao, Kuranz, Carolyn C., Lebedev, Sergey V., Uzdensky, Dmitri A., Hare, Jack D.

“…Finally, the current sheet is also unstable to the plasmoid instability, but the magnetic islands are extinguished by strong radiative cooling before ejection from the layer.…”
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Indentation and laser annealing of NiTi shape memory alloys by Su, Jun Feng

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Bus Ride Index – a refined approach to evaluating road surface irregularities by Nguyen, Teron, Lechner, Bernhard, Wong, Yiik Diew, Tan, Jun Yew

“…Many studies on ride comfort have focused on cars and trucks, but their results are not applicable to buses, which are characterised by inherently different vehicle dynamics. …”
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Security challenges in automotive hardware/software architecture design by Sagstetter, Florian, Lukasiewycz, Martin, Steinhorst, Sebastian, Wolf, Marko, Bouard, Alexandre, Peyrin, Thomas, Poschmann, Axel, Chakraborty, Samarjit, Harris, William R., Jha, Somesh.

“…State-of-the-art automotive architectures are highly heterogeneous and complex systems that rely on distributed functions based on electronics and software. As cars are getting more connected with their environment, the vulnerability to attacks is rapidly growing. …”
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Water flow control for optimal operation of air to water heat exchanger by Muhammad Nurul Irfan Abdul Aziz

“…Chilled beam systems are considered to be energy efficient and have the ability to provide sensible cooling in a given space. …”
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2DEG enhancement via epilayer stress engineering in AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructure by Patwal, Shashank

“…Majority of the reported AlN/GaN/AlN (AGA) DH-HEMTs exhibit sheet carrier density in the range of 2.2-3.2×1013 cm−2 with carrier mobility varying between 300-600 cm2/V.sec. …”
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Bandwidth analysis of waveguide grating coupler by Xiao, Zhe, Liow, Tsung-Yang, Zhang, Jing, Shum, Perry Ping, Luan, Feng

“…We observe that the bandwidth behavior is not only determined by the grating coupler intrinsic properties, but also affected by the fiber parameters such as position, beam waist and Numerical Aperture. The rigorous bandwidth formula is derived. …”
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Purely absorptive fifth-order three-dimensional electronic spectroscopy by Zhang, Zhengyang, Wells, Kym Lewis, Tan, Howe-Siang

“…We demonstrate a method to measure a purely absorptive fifth-order three-dimensional (3D) electronic spectrum based on a pulse-shaper assisted pump-probe beam geometry setup. The 3D spectra are measured as a function of two independently controlled population times. …”
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