The main requirements of satellite on-board processing are heavy constraints on volume/weight/power consumption, the need for computation power always growing and the necessity for an excellent reliability. In many applications, the main part of the computation power is spent in the front-end processing. That’s why the usual solution is an architecture based on ASICs often associated to a DSP. ...

We have studied the formation of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of n-alkanethiols on platinum thin films using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS), spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE), and contact angle (CA) measurements. Specifically, SAMs of 1-hexanethiol, 1-dodecanethiol, and 1-octadecanethiol were grown on polycrystalline Pt films, and t...

Abstract Although microplastics are ubiquitous in today’s natural environments, our understanding of the materials, quantities, and particle sizes involved remains limited. The recovery from different types environmental matrices requires standardized matrix digestion protocols that allow inter-laboratory comparisons have no effect on polymers themselves. A number commonly used methods rely oxi...

The structure and light-emitting properties of Si nanowires (SiNWs) fabricated by a single-step metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) process on highly boron-doped Si were investigated after different chemical treatments. The Si nanowires that result from the etching of a highly doped p-type Si wafer by MACE are fully porous, and as a result, they show intense photoluminescence (PL) at room te...

A variety of strategies for the synthesis of solution processable graphene sheets has been developed so far. However, no approach has been reported to directly produce highly conductive, low-oxygen-containing graphene sheets without relying on toxic reagents and metal containing compounds and without generating toxic by-products. With an aim of developing such an eco-friendly approach, for the ...

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) provide an important security function to help defend against network attacks. As network speeds and detection workloads increase, it is important for NIDSes to be highly efficient. Most NIDSes need to check for thousands of known attack patterns in every packet, making pattern matching the most expensive part of signature-based NIDSes in terms of proc...