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Dataset for the thesis 'Polyoxometalate nanoscale electronic devices'
No full textAll the data used when writing my PhD thesis.
Each folder contains all the data for 1 chapter and a jupyter notebook with the python scripts to plot each graph. Inside of those are folder containing the data for each figure.
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Polyoxometalate nanoscale electronic devices
No full textElectronic memories play a crucial role in our ever more digital world. Traditional tech-nologies are reaching their limits as new computing paradigms continue to increasetheir demand for computing power, efficiency, and miniaturisation. Resistive randomaccess memories (RRAM) have emerged as promising candidates to solve these issues.Specifically, polyoxometalate (POM) -based devices show particular potential due totheir rich redox properties.This thesis explores the development of POM-based nanoscale electronic devices fornext-generation memory applications and neuromorphic computing. Throughout thiswork, I show that the phosphomolybdate POM, H3PMo12O40 is promising: it demon-strates rich redox activity especially when carefully deposited in nanogap separatedAl/Au asymmetric coplanar electrodes. By adding a thin poly(methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) layer between the metal electrodes and the POM film, device performancecan be enhanced, while addressing challenges such as device-to-device and cycle-to-cycle variations. My analysis reveals that a complex combination of factors explainsthe switching mechanism of these devices including: the POM redox reactions, envi-ronmental factors such as moisture, and device structure-related effects.I showcase the ability of these devices to mimic some operation of the biological brainand specific neural responses such as nociception, opening new possibilities for artifi-cial neural network technologies.This work advances the field of nanoelectronics by optimising both device architectureand material selection. My findings pave the way for the development of more effi-cient and tuneable bio-inspired computing systems. These POM-based devices offersolutions to overcome current technology limitations, potentially shaping future elec-tronic systems
Collaborating with local events to engage a wide public demographic in photonics outreach
No full textCollaboration with local events can provide an effective means to engage a non-science aware audience with photonics. The University of Southampton’s Lightwave and Light Express outreach teams collaborated with Light-up Trails at Hillier Gardens to deliver a series of photonics activities in the local area including laser shows at a secondary school, and ‘scientists in the garden’. Demonstrators focused on explaining key concepts, including reflection and diffraction, and linked these to important applications of photonics including fibre optics. Audience feedback via quizzes and word-of-mouth enabled identification of strengths and weaknesses of the activities for different demographics, informing future outreach events
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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