The step toward the fabrication of nanodevices with low cost and improved performance is of high demand; therefore, in the present study, different flexible substrates like common paper, textile fabric, plastic and aluminum foil have been utilized to harvest electrical energy. ZnO nanorods (NRs) were grown by using low temperature aqueous chemical growth method. The obtained ZnO NRs were highly...

Real-time pricing schemes make the customers to feel the energy price volatility and improve their load profiles. However, these schemes have no significant effect on demand-side uncertainty reduction. In this paper, considering smart grid infrastructures and smart building Energy Management System (EMS), a new real-time pricing scheme is presented to reduce the uncertainty of demand-side. In t...

The military and aerospace electronics industries are experiencing an ever increasing demand for the use of plastic encapsulated microcircuits and semiconductors. While plastic encapsulated microcircuits and semiconductors offer a number of inherent advantages over hermetically sealed ceramic packages, uncontrolled use can introduce a number of technical risks in military and aerospace equipmen...

Plastic is cheap, ubiquitous and persistent. In 2010 the world produced 265M tonnes. Annual output is increasing with new uses and varieties augmenting demand. Plastic persists for centuries, much of it finding its way into coasts and waterways. Approximately 80% of marine debris is plastic (mostly bags and bottles), accumulating through spillage, runoff, dumping and discharge; with varied envi...

The potential energy landscape of a flowing metallic glass is revealed using the activation-relaxation technique. For a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones system initially deformed into a steady-state condition through quasistatic shear, the distribution of activation energies is shown to contain a large fraction of low-energy barriers, consistent with a highly nonequilibrium flow state. The distrib...

Detector systems using plastic scintillators can provide instantaneous measurements with high spatial resolution in many applications including small field and high dose gradient field applications. Energy independence and water equivalence are important dosimetric properties that determine whether a detector will be useful in a clinical setting. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we calculated the...