Printed electronics for smart water technology sensor by Koh, Joy Yuan En

“…The electrodes and coupons are then subjected to various tests such as field emission scanning electron microscope, resistance, adhesion, surface treatment and electrical testing. …”
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Multi-physics modeling of melting-solidification characteristics in laser powder bed fusion process of 316L stainless steel by Shan, Xiuyang, Pan, Zhenggao, Gao, Mengdi, Han, Lu, Choi, Joon-Phil, Zhang, Haining

“…Using this model, the effects of laser scanning speed, hatch space, and laser power on temperature distribution, keyhole depth, and workpiece quality were studied. …”
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Non-eutectic phase change materials for cold thermal energy storage by Sze, Jia Yin, Mu, Chenzhong, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Li, Yongliang

“…The aqueous solutions of varying concentrations are characterized by differential scanning calorimetry and thermal response measurements for bulk PCMs. …”
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Visible-light photoresponse in a hollow microtube : nanowire structure made of carbon-doped ZnO by Liu, Xianbin, Du, Hejun, Sun, Xiaowei, Liu, Bo, Zhao, Dewei, Sun, Handong

“…The hollow microtube–nanowire architecture was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman, photoluminescence and electrical measurements. …”
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Polarity assignment in ZnTe, GaAs, ZnO, and GaN-AlN nanowires from direct dumbbell analysis by Fernández-Rojas, Carlos J., Morral, Anna Fontcuberta i., Mata, Maria de la, Magen, Cesar, Gazquez, Jaume, Utama, Muhammad Iqbal Bakti, Heiss, Martin, Lopatin, Sergei, Furtmayr, Florian, Peng, Bo, Morante, Joan Ramon, Rurali, Riccardo, Eickhoff, Martin, Xiong, Qihua, Arbiol, Jordi

“…Aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) with high angle annular dark field (HAADF) imaging and the newly developed annular bright field (ABF) imaging are used to define a new guideline for the polarity determination of semiconductor nanowires (NWs) from binary compounds in two extreme cases: (i) when the dumbbell is formed with atoms of similar mass (GaAs) and (ii) in the case where one of the atoms is extremely light (N or O: ZnO and GaN/AlN). …”
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Effects of preparation temperature on the conductivity of polypyrrole conducting polymer by Kassim, Anuar, Basar, Zarina, Mahmud, H.N.M. Ekramul

“…The morphology of the films formed was studied by using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The changes in conductivity and physical appearance were interpreted as being due to compactness in the molecular packing and formation of αβ linkages in the film.…”
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Synthesis and characterization of graphene oxide and graphene nanosheet by He, Yuan Qi

“…Then, the graphene nanosheets obtained will go through a series of characterization process such as Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), in order to investigate the quality of the graphene sample attained and certain properties of graphene.…”
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Report on effects of adding metal additives to aluminum oxide by Chang, Jun Hua.

“…Metal and aluminum oxide powders were mixed and sintered, and the samples were tested for their porosity, hardness, thermal conductivity and dielectric constant. Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Diffractography were conducted to understand the particle sizes and the phases present. …”
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Design and development of diamond wire sawing setup by Tong, Pei Jue.

“…The prototype 2 developed for this project is capable of achieving a linear wire speed of approximately 2.4 m/s and accommodating a workpiece of 3 inches in width and 1 inch in height. Finally, Scanning Electron Microscope analysis is carried out to evaluate the cuts and scratches made by the prototype in order to determine its performance. …”
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Synthesis of hydrogel particles for disaster relief application by Fan, Hao

“…Size and morphological characteristics of the hydrogel particles were determined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Turbidity of contaminated water was measured using turbidimeter. …”
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Development of healthcare application on mobile devices (ClinicQ) by Chia, Daryl Bing Hong

“…ClinicQ also investigates on the functionalities and capabilities available on an Android mobile device such using the camera to scan for the barcode of an identity card, placing one’s finger at the camera lens to measure heartbeat. …”
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Corrosion fatigue behaviors of aluminum alloys for offshore applications by Nguyen, Ngoc Vu

“…Microstructural characteristics of pitting corrosion were examined using Scanning Electron Microscopy and Orientation Imaging Microscopy based analysis technique. …”
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Online OCR (optical character recognition) using NVIDIA Jetson platform by Joshua Kurniawan

“…This report documents the algorithm of Optical Character Recognition, to the purpose of detecting and recognizing the real-life text such as type word or scanned word. It details the process of the program to detect and recognize word from scene text images and explain the entire process of the program itself. …”
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Piecewise damage model for SiC/SiC composites with multilevel experimental validation by Shi, D, Wang, Z, Marrow, J, Liu, C, Wan, F, Yang, X

“…First, the geometric information of the microstructure was acquired using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray computed tomography (X-CT). …”

Effects of heat treatment parameters on the microstructure and mechanical properties of laser power bed fusion (LPBF) 316L stainless steel by Sun, Yuheng

“…No obvious recrystallization was observed when the annealing temperature is below 1300 °C; annealing at 1200 °C for 30 minutes to 2 hours only led to partially recrystallization; full recrystallization was obtained at 1300 °C for more than 30 mins, where similar microstructure and mechanical properties were obtained to CM 316L. …”
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The thinnest light disk: rewritable data storage and encryption on WS₂ monolayers by Zhao, Weiwei, Cai, Shuang, Wei, Xin, Zheng, Ting, Xu, Xin, Zafar, Amina, Liu, Hongwei, Yu, Ting, Lu, Junpeng, Chen, Yunfei, Ni, Zhenhua

“…The write-in is realized by precise control of photoluminescence emission by means of ozone functionalization and scanning focused laser beam. The visual decryption and reading-out of information are enabled by fluorescence contrast. …”
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Multi-angle data acquisition to compensate transducer finite size in photoacoustic tomography by Hakakzadeh, Soheil, Mozaffarzadeh, Moein, Mostafavi, Seyed Masood, Kavehvash, Zahra, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Verweij, Martin, de Jong, Nico, Pramanik, Manojit

“…To address this problem, we propose a multi-angle detection approach in which the transducer used for data acquisition rotates around its center (with specific angles) as well as around the scanning center. The angles are calculated based on the central frequency and diameter of the transducer and the radius of the region-of-interest (ROI). …”
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Ultrafast laser pulse repetition rate dependent switching of nonlinearity in water by Perumbilavil, Sreekanth, Sandeep, C. S. Suchand, Matham, Murukeshan Vadakke

“…For the investigations, a conventional open aperture z-scan measurement system equipped with a variable repetition rate ultrafast laser source operating at the wavelength of 1030 nm was employed. …”
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Compressible hollow microlasers in organoids for high-throughput and real-time mechanical screening by Fang, Guocheng, Ho, Beatrice Xuan, Xu, Hongmei, Gong, Chaoyang, Qiao, Zhen, Liao, Yikai, Zhu, Song, Lu, Hongxu, Nie, Ningyuan, Zhou, Tian, Kim, Munho, Huang, Changjin, Soh, Boon Seng, Chen, Yu-Cheng

“…This method eliminates time-consuming scanning and sample damage, providing insights into organoid mechanobiology.…”
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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 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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