Producing microscale Ge textures via titanium nitride- and nickel-assisted chemical etching with CMOS-compatibiliyty by Liao, Yikai, Shin, Sang-Ho, Jin, Yuhao, Wang, Qi Jie, Kim, Munho

“…Schottky contact barrier of metal catalyst with Ge is also investigated indicating similar hole injection efficiency among TiN, Ni, and Ti/Ni with Ge junction due to strong Fermi level pinning effect. The TiN- and Ni-assisted chemical etching of Ge shed light on CMOS-compatible Ge-based photonic and optoelectronic applications.…”
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Synthesized tin-activated carbon adsorbent for purer and cheaper hydrogen by Iyuke, S.E.

“…To achieve this, activated carbon (AC)-SnO2 adsorbent was synthesized and used in a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system. Consequently, 34.57% SnCl2.2H2O salt as a tin ion precursor, was impregnated onto activated carbon to improve its adsorptive interaction with CO. …”
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Droplet wetting and evaporation on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces by Phonkrit, Boonchuaysream

“…The droplets also experience contact line pinning-depinning during the CCA and mixed modes on patterned substrates. …”
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Ohmic contact formation to β-Ga2O3 nanosheet transistors with Ar-containing plasma treatment by Chen, Jinxin, Liu, Bingyan, Gu, Yang, Li, Bin

“…With the optimal plasma pre-treatment (i.e., Ar plasma, 100 W, 60 s), the resulting β-Ga2O3 nanosheet field-effect transistors (FETs) show effective Ohmic contact (i.e., contact resistance RC of 104 Ω·mm) without any post-annealing, which leads to competitive device performance such as a high current on/off ratio (>107), a low subthreshold swing (SS, 249 mV/dec), and acceptable field-effect mobility ((Formula presented.), ~21.73 cm2 V−1 s−1). …”
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InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors on Si for RF applications by Xing, Weichuan

“…A thin layer of oxide between the metal gate and the thin InAlN barrier and form a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) gate in the Planar nanostrip-channel GaN HEMT, gate leakage current was reduced and thus increase the gate voltage swing and drain current swing. The results show that the Planar nanostrip-channel Al2O3/InAlN/GaN MISHEMTs is able to work at up to Vg = +4 V and the linearity performance was further improved. …”
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Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment : 12th EAI international conference, INTETAIN 2020, virtual event, December 12-14, 2020 : Proceedings / by INTETAIN (Conference) (12th : 2020 : Online), organiser 642911, Shaghaghi, Navid, editor 642912, Lamberti, Fabrizio, editor 642913, Beams, Brian, editor 642914, Shariatmadari, Reza, editor 642915, Amer, Ahmed, editor 642916

Developing a lightscape application (using a raspberry PI) by Ong, Wenchuan

“…The project aims to develop a web application, which will be hosted within the Raspberry Pi, for controlling the brightness of constant light source from the high power LED via the Raspberry Pi’s General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins and gather optimal settings for projecting images with the Light Blaster. …”
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Additive friction stir processing by Lin, Longyi

“…The continuous dynamic recrystalisation during FSP also gave finer grains, which was further enhanced with the addition of CNTs through Zener pinning effect. The improvement in tensile strengths due to finer grains through the Hall-Petch mechanism was insufficient to compensate for the drop in Orowan strengthening. …”
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Particle self-assembly in sessile droplet on patterned substrate by Lim, Si Xian

“…This indicates that the particle is the pinning force that prevents contact line withdrawal. …”
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Influence of the exchange symmetry beyond the exclusion principle by Tennie, F

“…In particular, we <em>analytically</em> study the (quasi-)pinning effect which corresponds to a saturation of the GPCs and imposes structural simplifications on the <em>N</em>-fermion state. …”

High-voltage IR-UWB pulse generator MMIC design and beamforming for indoor-ranging and radar applications by Hussain Ansari Md Arif

“…The presented design is fully utilizing the existing 2 µm GaAs HBT cascode pair configuration, which significantly increases the output voltage swing while reducing the total power consumption. …”
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Development of advanced Fe-based oxygen carriers for chemical looping applications by Fan, Qianwenhao

“…All the perovskite structured oxygen carriers showed excellent cyclic stability over pressure swing cycles at 500 °C, suggesting their suitability for long-term operation. …”
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Human factors in agile software development by Lin, Jun

“…• How does the developers' mood or team morale swing affect the task performing process and the quality of artifacts? …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…The developed exoskeleton is proven to be able to trigger a stable swing motion in terms of XcoM stability criteria and reduce the human effort by 50% compared with the exoskeleton without lateral balance shifting ability. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of Algan/Gan high electron mobility transistors on silicon by Tham, Wai Hoe

“…In addition, the fabricated MISHEMTs exhibit excellent ION/IOFF ratio and good sub threshold swing characteristics, which reflects on the good quality of our gate stack approach. …”
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Mechanics of fracture and flexure in Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves by Zhang, H

“…In grounding zones and floating ice shelves, ice fracturing is often associated with flexure modulated by ocean tides and subglacial water flow, as well as stresses created by shearing, such as pinning points. Fracture and flexure significantly affect the vulnerability of Antarctic ice shelves to hydrofracturing and, by altering buttressing effects, the mass balance of the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet. …”

Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…This paper specifically focuses on analysing simply supported boundary condition curved beam member which pinned on the one end and roller that can be moved horizontally on the other end. …”
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Study of planning and operational aspects of tidal in-stream power generation by Mahda J. Jahromi

“…Another paper which I found very inspiring at the beginning of this work was the paper by Biswarup, et. al. of the Imperial College of London who did a thorough investigation on the performance of an Archimedes Wave Swing (AWS) and its effect on the neighboring networks[19]. …”
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Challenges and applications to operando and in situ TEM imaging and spectroscopic capabilities in a cryogenic temperature range by Tyukalova, Elizaveta, Vas, Joseph Vimal, Ignatans, Reinis, Mueller, Aaron David, Medwal, Rohit, Imamura, Masaaki, Asada, Hironori, Fukuma, Yasuhiro, Rawat, Rajdeep Singh, Tileli, Vasiliki, Duchamp, Martial

“…Such studies are promising for studying the pinning of the ferroelectric and magnetic domains versus temperature, spin-polarized current, and externally applied magnetic field to better manipulate the domain walls. …”
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Health monitoring, lifetimes estimation, and thermal management of IGBT-based power converters by Mohamed Halick Mohamed Sathik

“…The developed control method developed in this work not only limits the over temperature, but also controls temperature swings (∆Tj) due to thermal cycling. The proposed thermal controller uses the temperature-related parameters to control the junction temperature online. …”
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