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Electrical Reliability Enhancement in Organic Thin-film Transistors and Circuits Using a Hydroxyl-containing Polymer Blend as Gate Dielectric
No full textA polymer gate dielectric is one of the key elements of solution-processed organic thin-film transistors (TFTs) for low-cost and large-area electronic applications. In the past few decades, a hydroxyl-containing polymer blend of poly(4-vinylphenol) (PVP) and poly(melamine-co-formaldehyde) (PMF) has been widely used as gate dielectric due to its low leakage current, high dielectric constant, and good chemical compatibility in organic TFTs.1) However, the polymer blend has been compatible only with suitably engineered expensive plastic substrates due to its high annealing temperature (typically higher than 175 ºC) to remove hydroxyl groups that cause the substantial hysteresis phenomenon in the current-voltage characteristics.2,3) In this work, we investigated the influence of various PVP:PMF blend conditions such as weight ratio (0.2:1 to 5:1) and annealing temperature (100 to 200 ºC) on the device performances in 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) organic TFTs (Figs. 1 and 2). We found that the organic TFT using the PVP:PMF blend with the weight ratio of 0.5:1 and annealing temperature of 100 ºC showed negligible hysteresis, high on/off drain current ratio, and low gate-leakage current. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy measurements provided the evidence that the optimized condition of PVP:PMF blend is strongly related to the minimization of non-hydrogen-bonded hydroxyl groups. Finally, we successfully demonstrated transistors and diode-connected inverters on a 3-μm-thick flexible parylene film. This work shows that the reduction of non-hydrogen-bonded hydroxyl groups in polymer dielectrics can effectively lower the process temperature and enhance the device electrical reliability on inexpensive plastic substrates.1
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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