1,720,990 research outputs found
Adhesion lithography for fabrication of printed radio-frequency diodes
Radio-frequency (RF) diodes are quintessential elements of passive RF identification tags that are used on livestock, luxury objects, and healthcare products. They are also used in near-field communication applications that enable wireless data transfer between devices. An RF diode—when matched to a suitable antenna—picks up the alternating current (AC) signal that is emitted from an RF source and transforms it to a DC signal. The DC signal can then be used to decode the information stored in the tagged object, or to simply power another electronic or optoelectronic device (e.g., a sensor, battery, or LED). The high demand for RF-harvesting devices, however, can only fully be met if their fabrication costs are substantially reduced. To realize this reduction in cost, novel printing technologies that permit manufacturing on large substrates are required. With these technologies it should be possible to ascertain that an increased diode performance (in terms of a small voltage drop, minimum leakage current, and a large gamut of operating frequencies) is attained
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
Zinc oxide solution-processed Schottky diodes operating at 5G frequencies
5G networks are currently being deployed around the world, introducing a new era in machine-to-machine communications and reinforcing the Internet of Things. The 5G radiofrequency bands range from sub-1 GHz to 70 GHz, while the 6th generation (6G) is expected to cover bands at hundreds of GHz. There is a need for devices with high frequency performance and scalable manufacturing using inexpensive techniques and materials. Herein we present ZnO-based Schottky diodes, processed from solution on wafer scale with high yield. Coplanar nanogap electrodes are fabricated using a high-throughput low-cost technique, named adhesion lithography. The diodes’ cutoff frequency exceeds 100 GHz
Variations on the Author
“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
We 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
We 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
Radio frequency diodes and circuits fabricated via adhesion lithography
The commercial interest in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags keeps growing, as new application sectors, spanning from healthcare to electronic article surveillance (EAS) and personal identification, are constantly emerging for these types of electronic devices. The increasing demand for the so-called “smart labels” necessitates their high throughput manufacturing, and indeed on thin flexible substrates, that will reduce the cost and render them competitive to the currently widely employed barcodes. Adhesion Lithography (a-Lith) is a novel patterning technique that allows the facile high yield fabrication of co-planar large aspect ratio (<100,000) metal electrodes separated by a sub-20 nm gap on large area substrates of any type. Deposition of high mobility semiconductors from their solution at low, compatible with plastic substrates, temperatures and application of specific processing protocols can dramatically improve the performance of the fabricated Schottky diodes. It will be shown that in this manner both organic and inorganic high speed diodes and rectifiers can be obtained, operating at frequencies much higher than the 13.56 MHz benchmark, currently employed in passive RFID tags and near filed communications (NFC). This showcases the universality of this method towards fabricating high speed p- and n-type diodes, irrespective of the substrate, simply based on the extreme downscaling of key device dimensions obtained in these nanoscale structures. The potential for scaling up this technique at low cost, combined with the significant performance optimisation and improved functionality that can be attained through intelligent material selection, render a-Lith unique within the field of plastic electronics
Semple, James
See entry in Perry County, volume 3, page 38: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/267
- …
