Discontinuity of overhanging melt track in selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy, Wong, Chee How, Chua, Gregory Kok Hong, Tang, Chao, Du, Hejun

“…The simulation model was achieved by incorporating Fresnel reflections in the laser beam through the ray-tracing model. The CFD model was employed to investigate different overhanging situations, including perpendicular and parallel overhanging melt tracks on a cuboid block, as well as parallel melt tracks on an inclined block. …”
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Adaptive macro spatial modulation for mmWave dense networks by Luo, Sheng, Che, Yue Ling, Wu, Kaishun, Teh, Kah Chan

“…In the proposed scheme, a user equipment (UE) adaptively establishes communication links with multiple small base stations (SBSs) and switches its beam direction between these SBSs according to part of its transmitting information. …”
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Observation of the interactions of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) mediated by acid in the aquatic matrices using in-situ liquid cell transmission electron microscopy by Fernando, Ishara, Tay, Yee Yan, Karunasekera, Hasith, Zhou, Yan

“…Aggregates formed in this scenario were non spherical and irregular shaped and were stable under the electron beam irradiation. Individual AgNPs and smaller aggregates moved randomly and approached the larger aggregates before the aggregation process came to an end. …”
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Post-buckling transition of compressed pipe strings in horizontal wellbores by Zhang, Qiang, Wang, Jiacheng, Cui, Wei, Xiao, Zhongmin, Yue, Qianbei

“…In the current study, the compressed pipe strings initially located at the bottom of horizontal wellbores were discretized into beam elements, and a gap element was introduced to detect the contact between the horizontal strings and the wellbores. …”
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Enhanced versatility of table-top X-rays from Van der Waals structures by Huang, Sunchao, Duan, Ruihuan, Pramanik, Nikhil, Boothroyd, Chris, Liu, Zheng, Wong, Liang Jie

“…By introducing a tilt angle between the vdW structure and the incident electron beam, it is theoretically and experimentally shown that the accessible photon energy range is more than doubled. …”
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Single antenna power measurements based direction finding : an FRI solution by Zhang, Song Bai

“…Determining the angle of arrival (AoA) for wireless source signals has great poten- tial practical applications, one example is beam forming in cellular communication. The conventional methodology used to determine the AoA mainly uses the an- tenna array as an acquisition system, and there are many signal process algorithms developed to retrieve the direction of arrival information. …”
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Nanostructured vanadium dioxide with metal to insulator transition : preparation and thermochromic properties by Wang, Ning

“…The pristine and doped VO2 nanostructures could be synthesized under normal hydrothermal approaches, and it is of great interests that VO2 nanobeams exhibit the dual surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which was firstly reported and such beam structure is also promising for electronic device.…”
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Fabrication of artificial defects in aircraft components for nondestructive testing using 3D printing by Chan, Marcus Jia Jun

“…It was found that despite being able to correctly measure the component’s depth, the topography was found to be distorted due to a combination of beam spread and machine measurement errors. Lastly, due to the limitations and cost of this project, several recommendations and improvements have been identified. …”
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A cantilever-based NEM nonvolatile memory utilizing electrostatic actuation and vibrational deactuation for high-temperature operation by Gopal, Jayaraman Karthik, Do, Anh Tuan, Singh, Pushpapraj, Chua, Geng Li, Kim, Tony Tae-Hyoung

“…The memory bit (0/1) is formed by the opening/closing of a cantilever beam. Permanent retention is obtained by adhesive force between two smooth surfaces in contact, eliminating leakage observed in all types of storage-layer-based NVMs. …”
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Integration of InGaAs MOSFETs and GaAs/ AlGaAs lasers on Si Substrate for advanced opto-electronic integrated circuits (OEICs) by Kumar, Annie, Lee, Shuh-Ying, Yadav, Sachin, Tan, Kian Hua, Loke, Wan Khai, Dong, Yuan, Lee, Kwang Hong, Wicaksono, Satrio, Liang, Gengchiau, Yoon, Soon-Fatt, Antoniadis, Dimitri, Yeo, Yee-Chia, Gong, Xiao

“…The laser and transistor layers were grown on the Si substrate by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) using direct epitaxial growth. …”
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Epitaxial growth of low threading dislocation density InSb on GaAs using self-assembled periodic interfacial misfit dislocations by Jia, Bo Wen, Tan, Kian Hua, Loke, Wan Khai, Wicaksono, Satrio, Yoon, Soon Fatt

“…The InSb layer was grown at 310°C by molecular beam epitaxy. The AFM measurement exhibited a root mean square (r.m.s.) roughness of 1.1 nm. ω-2θ scan results from x-ray diffraction measurement indicated that the InSb layer is 98.9% relaxed. …”
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Quantitative measurement of displacement in photopolymer layers during holographic recording using phase shifting electronic speckle pattern interferometry by Moothanchery, Mohesh, Bavigadda, Viswanath, Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit, Toal, Vincent, Naydenova, Izabela

“…It was observed that the displacement profile is Gaussian and resembles to the profile of the recording beam. We observed an increase in shrinkage from 2 μm at 20 seconds of recording to 7.5 μm after 120 seconds of recording. …”
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Antenna-enhanced and polarization sensitive photoresponse in arrays of silicon P–i–N nanowires by Salfi, J., Lin, F. K., Stewart, C., Nair, S. V., Chen, C. Y., Yongshun, S., Rusli, E., Yu, M., Singh, N., Sousa, C. F. d., Ruda, H. E.

“…Quantitative characterization of these resonances was performed by spectral and polarization-resolved photocurrent measurements on gratings with N = 500, 200 and 100 nanowires, aided by electron beam-induced current measurements, and in excellent agreement with electromagnetic scattering theory. …”
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Laser Surface Processing of Hot Rolled Ni-45.0at.%Ti Shape Memory Alloy by Ma, Chengpeng, Guan, Yingchun, Zhou, Wei

“…The oxidized and polished surfaces were analyzed by White-Light Interference (WLI), Focus ion beam (FIB) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). …”
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Damage identification by using a self-synchronizing multipoint laser doppler vibrometer by Miao, Hong, Zhu, Changchun, Yang, Chong, Fu, Yu, Yuan, Jianmin, Guo, Min, Yan, Keyu, Liu, Huan

“…In this paper, a damage detection technique is proposed using a self-synchronizing multipoint LDV. Multiple laser beams with various frequency shifts are projected on different points of the object, reflected and interfered with a common reference beam. …”
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The focusing property of the spiral Fibonacci zone plate by Liu, Y. J., Dai, Haitao, Sun, Xiaowei

“…According to the simulated results, the FiZPs can focus the incident beam as conventional zone plates as well but with fractal on-axis intensity profile. …”
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Cylindrical surfaces enable wavelength-selective extinction and sub-0.2 nm linewidth in 250 μm-gap silicon Fabry–Pérot cavities by Malak, Maurine, Marty, Frédéric, Pavy, Nicolas, Peter, Yves-Alain, Liu, Ai Qun, Bourouina, Tarik

“…Our approach consists of providing a solution to the main loss mechanism in conventional FP cavities related to the expansion of the Gaussian light beam after multiple reflections inside the cavity. …”
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A signal through the noise: accurate determination of hydrogen atom positions in crystal structures and optimisation of Laue neutron diffraction methods by Sackman, GA

“…This focuses on:</p> <p>Recommendations for the efficient collection of Laue neutron data, in order to optimise the data set completeness and awarded beam-time; strategic considerations for how to best answer the scientific question(s) at hand in a Laue neutron experiment, whilst planning against future contingencies; improving methods for crystal packing and shipping, particularly for air and moisture sensitive materials; discussing issues arising from ice forming on the crystal during a Laue neutron diffraction experiment, and methods for minimising this problem; more effectively modelling disorder using ring shapes, in the crystallographic refinement package CRYSTALS; providing rationale for Laue neutron specific checkCIF comments.…”

Variational model with image denoising fitting term for boundary extraction of breast ultrasound images by Badrulhisam, Nurdina, Ismail, Nurhuda, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

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Financial constraints of ASEAN firms: impact alleviation by ESG pillars by Ng, Yee Ling, Lau, Wei Theng, Soh, Wei Ni, Ab Razak, Nazrul Hisyam

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