For practical applications, flexible solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ss-DSSCs) with high photovoltaic performance and stability are paramount. A novel iodine (I2)-free polysiloxane based highly conductive poly(ionic liquid), which acts as the lone charge transfer intermediate, is used for first time an electrolyte in 1D TiO2 nanotube photoanodes (TiO2 NT) ss-DSSCs. The I2-free polymer p...

data envelopment analysis (dea) has been proven as an efficient technique to evaluate the performance of homogeneous decision making units (dmus) where multiple inputs and outputs exist. in the conventional applications of dea, the data are considered as specific numerical values with explicit designation of being an input or output. however, the observed values of the data are sometimes imprec...

This paper describes a recently introduced vector-valued representation of fundamental frequency variation – the FFV spectrum – which has a number of desirable properties. In particular, it is instantaneous, continuous, distributed, and well-suited to application of standard acoustic modeling techniques. We show what the representation looks like, and how it can be used to model prosodic sequen...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Muhammad Imran Asghar Name of the doctoral dissertation Stability Issues of Dye Solar Cells Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Applied Physics Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 53/2012 Field of research New Energy Technologies Manuscript submitted 13 December 2011 Manuscript revised ...

The goal of this thesis is to achieve flexible full color AMOLED displays on clear plastic substrates using high temperature amorphous-silicon TFT’s. Dry dye-printing and solvent-enhanced dye diffusion were used to fabricate side-by-side red, green and blue organic light emitting device (OLED) pixels. The technique was then used to make combined polymer/small molecule devices, in which the prin...

Flexible gastro-intestinal (GI) endoscopy is an integral diagnostic and therapeutic tool in clinical gastroenterology. High quality standards for safety, patients' comfort, and efficiency have already been achieved. Clinical challenges and technical approaches are discussed in this short review. Image enhanced endoscopy for further characterization of mucosal and vascular patterns includes dye-...

A modeling method for representing belt object deformation is proposed. Deformation of belt objects such as film circuit boards or flexible circuit boards must be estimated for automatic manipulation and assembly. In this paper, we assume that deformation of an inextensible belt object can be described by the shape of its central axis in a longitudinal direction called “the spine line” and line...

this paper presents a gaussian radial basis function neural network based on sliding mode control for trajectory tracking and vibration control of a flexible joint manipulator. to study the effectiveness of the controllers, designed controller is developed for tip angular position control of a flexible joint manipulator. the adaptation laws of designed controller are obtained based on sliding m...

introduction:thepowderedactivatedcarbontreatment(pact)hasbeenproposedasanalternativeinwastewatertreatmentandwastewaterbiomassprotectionagainsttoxicsubstances.thisstudyaimstoevaluatepactperformanceintreatingdyes,acidorange,andremazolbrilliantreactiveblue. methods:thisempirical-appliedresearchwascarriedoutinpilotscaleinwhichdifferentdyeremoval systems were tested:activatedsludge,pac,andthecombine...