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Air stable high resolution OFET (organic field effect transistor) fabrication using Inkjet Printing and Low Temperature selective Laser sintering Proc
On the fabrication and mechanical modelling microscale bistable tensegrity systems
We report about the analysis, design, and experimental testing of modular structures composed of bistable units derived from the classic triangular tensegrity prism. Tensegrity structures are pin-connected frameworks, composed by bars and cables, possessing internal mechanisms and self-stress states, and featuring a variety of structural responses depending on their prestress, edge connectivity, and geometry. When a tensegrity system has only one internal mechanism and one self-stress state, as in the triangular prism case, it is possible to associate to it a corresponding bistable unit, by replacing all cables with bars and changing their edge-lengths slightly. After presenting experimental results of compression tests carried out on microscale specimens fabricated through multiphoton lithography, we compare them with the numerical predictions obtained by our computational model
Nanoscale Patterning and Electronics on Flexible Substrate by Direct Nanoimprinting of Metallic Nanoparticles
The coalescence of supported gold nanoparticles induced by nanosecond laser irradiation
Gold nanoparticles supported on a quartz substrate are fabricated by e-beam lithography and subjected to nanosecond laser irradiation to induce coalescence. In combination with ex-situ scanning electron microscopy and optical extinction spectra, transmission is monitored in-situ to determine the characteristic coalescence time, the threshold fluence for the onset of coalescence and the produced particle morphology. Parallel molecular dynamics simulation is employed and shown to reasonably predict the coalescence time, thus explaining the experimental results
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
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