For colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), shape control and doping as two widely applied strategies are crucial for enhancing and manipulating their functional properties. Here we report a facile and green synthetic approach for high-quality colloidal Mn doped ZnO NCs with simultaneous control over composition, shape and optical properties. Specifically, the shape of doped ZnO NCs can be ...

In this paper, improved conditions for the synthesis of static state-feedback controller are derived to stabilize networked control systems (NCSs) subject to actuator saturation. Both of the data packet latency and dropout which deteriorate the performance of the closed-loop system are considered in the NCS model via variable delays. Two different techniques are employed to incorporate actuator...

A methodology for the design of polar, inorganic structures is demonstrated here with the packing of lambda (Λ)-shaped basic building units (BBUs). Noncentrosymmetric (NCS) solids with interesting physical properties can be created with BBUs that lack an inversion center and are likely to pack into a polar configuration; previous methods to construct these solids have used NCS octahedra as BBUs...

The preparation and characterization of 4′-[4-(naphthalen-1-yl)phenyl]-3,2′:6′,3″-terpyridine (1) are described. Reactions 1 with Co(NCS)2 under conditions crystal growth by layering using different solvent combinations produced crystals [Co(1)2(NCS)2]n·2nCHCl3 [Co(1)2(NCS)2]n·2nC6H5Me, each which comprised a (4,4) net. orientations respect to the planar network defined Co atoms significantly i...

In the context of Networked Control Systems (NCS), communication time delays strongly influence on the Quality of Control (QoC) of process control applications. The goal of this paper is to propose a way to calculate the closed-loop communication time delay and we compensate this time delay using the pole placement design method in order to improve the QoC for CAN-based NCSs. We consider severa...

The title complex, [Na(C(18)H(22)O(5))(H(2)O)](2)[Co(NCS)(4)], consists of two aqua-(2,3-naphtho-15-crown-5)sodium complex cations and one [Co(NCS)(4)](2-) complex anion, which has crystallographic symmetry. In the anion, the Co(II) centre is coordinated by the N atoms of four NCS(-) ligands in a distorted tetra-hedral geometry. In the complex cations, the Na(I) centre is coordinated by five O ...

In 2010, the NCS (Netherlands Commission on Radiation Dosimetry) installed a subcommittee to develop guidelines for quality assurance and control for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatments. The report (published in 2015) has been written by Dutch medical physicists and has therefore, inevitably, a Dutch focus. This paper is a condensed version of these guidelines, the full report in...

Abstract We investigate the robust stability of a networked control system (NCS) subject to simultaneous nonlinear uncertainties. An NCS is described as feedback interconnection plant and controller communicating through bidirectional channel modeled by cascaded two-port networks. This model sufficiently rich capture various properties real-world communication channel, such distortion, interfer...