Strain sensors based on individual ZnO piezoelectric fine-wires (PFWs; nanowires, microwires) have been fabricated by a simple, reliable, and cost-effective technique. The electromechanical sensor device consists of a single electrically connected PFW that is placed on the outer surface of a flexible polystyrene (PS) substrate and bonded at its two ends. The entire device is fully packaged by a...

A new scalable interconnection topology suitable for massively parallel systems called the Spanning Bus Connected Hypercube (SBCH) is proposed. The SBCH uses the hypercube topology as a basic building block and connects such building blocks using multi-dimensional spanning buses. In doing so, the SBCH combines positive features of both the hypercube (small diameter, high connectivity, symmetry,...

The excellent physical and semiconducting properties of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers make them promising materials for many applications. The TMDC monolayer MoS2 has gained significant attention as a channel material for next-generation transistors. However, while n-type single-layer MoS2 devices can be made with relative ease, fabrication of p-type transistors remains a ch...

Introduced species provide an opportunity to examine responses to novel ecological conditions, in particular to the absence of co-evolved enemies. Introduced populations could evolve lower investment in resistance or could down-regulate their immune system as a plastic response to enemy absence. The response might have consequences for the success of introduced species. Assuming a trade-off bet...

Several new analogs of salicylaldehyde isonicotinoyl hydrazone (SIH) and salicylaldehyde benzoyl hydrazone (SBH) that contain an aryl boronic ester (BSIH, BSBH) or acid (BASIH) in place of an aryl hydroxide have been synthesized and characterized as masked metal ion chelators. These pro-chelators show negligible interaction with iron(III), although the boronic acid versions exhibit some interac...

We report on vertical β-Ga 2 O 3 power diodes with oxidized-metal Schottky contact (PtO x ) and high permittivity (high-κ) dielectric (ZrO field plate to improve reverse blocking at both surfaces edges. The PtO showed excellent forward transport near unity ideality factor similar minimum specific on-resistance as Pt. Moreover, the contacts facilitated higher breakdown voltage lower leakage curr...

The use of electrical poling to induce polarization potential has been found increase the photocurrent (Ilight) in hybrid perovskite-based devices; however, origin this process not fully understood. Here, we study effect on photodetection properties self-powered photodetectors (PDs) based halide perovskites two different phase structures (i.e., tetragonal and cubic). Specifically, extensive inv...

Spin evolution of stellar-mass Black Holes (sBHs) embedded in AGN accretion disks is an important process relevant to production gravitaional waves from binary Hole (BBH) merger events through the channel. Since sBHs are surrounded by circum-stellar (CSDs), rotation CSD gas flows determine direction angular momentum it accretes. In this Letter, we use global 2D hydrodynamic simulations show tha...

A class of integrable models of 1+1 dimensional dilaton gravity coupled to scalar and electromagnetic fields is obtained and explicitly solved. More general models are reduced to 0+1 dimensional Hamiltonian systems, for which two integrable classes (called s-integrable) are found and explicitly solved. As a special case, static spherical solutions of the Einstein gravity coupled to electromagne...