Inorganic NWs in the sub-100 nm diameter range have shown great potential for flexible electronics. Research in this area is governed by the three distinct domains, (1) growth strategy of NWs, (2) NWs printing, (3) de...
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Inorganic NWs in the sub-100 nm diameter range have shown great potential for flexible electronics. Research in this area is governed by the three distinct domains, (1) growth strategy of NWs, (2) NWs printing, (3) development of flexible devices. These three domains are interdependent and the current works aims to show the connectivity via a generalized vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) based high temperature bottom-up growth process, which serves a key role to produce high quality NWs of length similar to 10-50 mu m. These NWs are printed over a flexible substrates using contact or direct roll transfer printing techniques, eventually leading to flexible devices. The key requirement from the growth process is to obtain long NWs needed for effective printing. Here we discuss the growth of NWs suitable for printing via atomistic kinetic model. This is followed by contact printing of vertical grown NWs over flexible substrates to develop an array of flexible ZnO NWs FETs with uniform response.
To improve the integration of sensors and meet the trend of miniaturization of devices, we propose and demonstrate a compact dual-channel surface plasmon resonance (SPR) fiber sensor for detecting refractive index (RI...
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To improve the integration of sensors and meet the trend of miniaturization of devices, we propose and demonstrate a compact dual-channel surface plasmon resonance (SPR) fiber sensor for detecting refractive index (RI) and temperature. In this sensor, we chose the simplest structure of optical fiber: no-core fiber (NCF), as the sensing probe. Then the silver film was deposited on the NCF surface using magnetron sputtering to excite the SPR effect. Two sensing channels were constructed on the NCF, one channel deposited with silver film for RI detection, and another channel deposited with PDMS and silver film for temperature detection. Such a con-struction makes the sensor compact and small. The performance of the proposed sensor is studied theoretically and experimentally. The experiment shows that the maximum sensitivity of the sensor is 3039 nm/RIU and 3.53 nm/degrees C when the RI ranges from 1.333 to 1.375 and the temperature ranges from 0 degrees C to 70 degrees C, respectively. The significant advantage of our proposed sensor is its simple, compact, and easy-to-prepare structure, which opens up a new direction for device miniaturization.
Poultry farming plays an essential role in the global food supply chain and is a major contributor to human protein needs. However, the use of intensive poultry production methods has been linked to the emission of a ...
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Recent advancements in technology have led to the development of smaller instruments, sensors, and electronics, enabling small satellite systems to collect vast amounts of data at a relatively low cost. This has spark...
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In this study, we introduce a cutting-edge approach to advancing sustainable piscicultures through the integration of a multilingual environmental monitoring system. The primary focus is on optimizing the management o...
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This article presents a fiber interferometric sensor (FIS) for measuring the velocity amplitude of an oscillatory vibrating object, with a focus on velocity mode measurement in applications using the Kibble balance pr...
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This article presents a fiber interferometric sensor (FIS) for measuring the velocity amplitude of an oscillatory vibrating object, with a focus on velocity mode measurement in applications using the Kibble balance principle. The sensor uses the range-resolved interferometry method to measure the displacement of the moving object and employs a multi-harmonic sine-fit algorithm to estimate the displacement amplitude and frequency, thereby determining the velocity amplitude. This article provides a comprehensive explanation of the experimental setup and the measurement techniques employed, as well as a detailed analysis of the uncertainty budget, with the performance validation of the FIS benchmarked against a commercial interferometer within a Kibble balance setup. The velocity amplitude of a coil of the Kibble balance, oscillating with an approx. amplitude of 20 mu m and a frequency of 0.25 Hz, was measured using the sensor and found to be 31.282 31 mu m s-1 with a relative deviation of -1.9 ppm compared to a commercial interferometer. The high performance of the FIS, especially with regard to non-linearity errors, and the small size of the measuring head enable universality of integration into a wide variety of measurement systems, also including the use as general-purpose vibration and displacement sensor.
Accurate measurement of flow parameters of multiphase flow has great significance for safe, economic, and efficient operation of the industrial production process. To simultaneously measure the water holdup and veloci...
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Accurate measurement of flow parameters of multiphase flow has great significance for safe, economic, and efficient operation of the industrial production process. To simultaneously measure the water holdup and velocity, a combined electrical and ultrasonic Doppler measurement system based on a compact peripheral component interconnect (CPU) bus is designed. The combined sensor consists of a six-ring conductance sensor, two pairs of capacitance plate sensors, and an ultrasonic Doppler sensor. The measurement system is cored with a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and consists of a series of functional modules. Through flexible programming and interboard communication, the system can meet different measurement requirements. To meet industrial data transmission standards and increase system extensibility, the demodulated data are transmitted to a host computer through the CPCI bus for further data analysis. Dynamic experiments demonstrated that the multimodal system has stable and preferable performance in water holdup and velocity measurement under all flow patterns. The conductance and capacitance sensor could realize the water holdup measurement with the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 3.02% and the overall superficial velocity estimation through cross correlation with the RMSE of 0.09 m/s. Resides, the pulse ultrasonic Doppler transducer could measure the overall superficial velocity through the area integration of the velocity profile with the RMSE of 0.08 m/s.
The proliferation and great variety of low-cost air quality (AQ) sensors, combined with their flexibility and energy efficiency, gives an opportunity to integrate them into Wireless sensor Networks (WSN). However, wit...
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The proliferation and great variety of low-cost air quality (AQ) sensors, combined with their flexibility and energy efficiency, gives an opportunity to integrate them into Wireless sensor Networks (WSN). However, with these sensors, AQ monitoring poses a significant challenge, as the data collection and analysis process is complex and prone to errors. Although these sensors do not meet the performance requirements for reference regulatory-equivalent monitoring, they can provide informative measurements and more if we can adjust and add further processing to their raw measurements. Therefore, the integration of these sensors aims to facilitate real-time monitoring and achieve a higher spatial and temporal sampling density, particularly in urban areas, where there is a strong interest in providing AQ surveillance services since there is an increase in respiratory/allergic issues among the population. Leveraging a network of low-cost sensors, supported by 5G communications in combination with Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques (using Convolutional and Deep Neural Networks (CNN and DNN)) to predict 24-h-ahead readings is the goal of this article in order to be able to provide early warnings to the populations of hazards areas. We have evaluated four different neural network architectures: Multi-Linear prediction (with a dense Multi-Linear Neural Network (NN)), Multi-Dense network prediction, Multi-Convolutional network prediction, and Multi-Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network prediction. To perform the training of the prediction of the readings, we have prepared a significant dataset that is analyzed and processed for training and testing, achieving an estimation error for most of the predicted parameters of around 7.2% on average, with the best option being the Multi-LSTM network in the forthcoming 24 h. It is worth mentioning that some pollutants achieved lower estimation errors, such as CO2 with 0.1%, PM10 with 2.4% (as well as PM2.5 and PM1.0), and NO2 with
This study presents a pioneering approach that leverages advanced sensing technologies and data processing techniques to enhance the process of clinical documentation generation during medical consultations. By employ...
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This study presents a pioneering approach that leverages advanced sensing technologies and data processing techniques to enhance the process of clinical documentation generation during medical consultations. By employing sophisticated sensors to capture and interpret various cues such as speech patterns, intonations, or pauses, the system aims to accurately perceive and understand patient-doctor interactions in real time. This sensing capability allows for the automation of transcription and summarization tasks, facilitating the creation of concise and informative clinical documents. Through the integration of automatic speech recognition sensors, spoken dialogue is seamlessly converted into text, enabling efficient data capture. Additionally, deep models such as Transformer models are utilized to extract and analyze crucial information from the dialogue, ensuring that the generated summaries encapsulate the essence of the consultations accurately. Despite encountering challenges during development, experimentation with these sensing technologies has yielded promising results. The system achieved a maximum ROUGE-1 metric score of 0.57, demonstrating its effectiveness in summarizing complex medical discussions. This sensor-based approach aims to alleviate the administrative burden on healthcare professionals by automating documentation tasks and safeguarding important patient information. Ultimately, by enhancing the efficiency and reliability of clinical documentation, this innovative method contributes to improving overall healthcare outcomes.
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