© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 1 wileyonlinelibrary.com orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the individual CQDs. This inhomogeneity in electronic energy levels can disrupt the charge hopping transport in CQD fi lms and degrade the transport rate signifi cantly. In addition, a suffi ciently narrow CQD size dispersion is essential to achieve the...

background: salmonella enterica serovar typhi (s. typhi) the cause of the acute febrile disease typhoid fever is the major public health problem in developing countries. asymptomatic carriers are the main sources of typhoid. the aim of this study was to investigate methods for isolation and identification of s. typhi in asymptomatic carriers. materials and methods: two hundred stool samples wer...

hepatitis delta virus (hdv) infection results in more severe and even fulminant form of hepatitis b in co-infected cases. this study was designed to estimate the prevalence of anti-hdv positivity and the associated risk factors in patients with chronic hepatitis b virus infection in zahedan (iran). in this cross-sectional study a total of 440 consecutive patients with chronic hepatitis b virus ...

introduction : staphylococcus aureus colonization has been recognized as one of the most important risk factors for subsequent infections with this microorganism. in this study, we intended to identify all patients who were mrsa-positive upon admission and compare the prevalence of mrsa colonization on different days of study admitted in imam reza hospital in mashhad, iran. methods : this cross...

in this study, feasibility of upgrading and retrofitting municipal wastewater treatment plantswas investigated at laboratory scale using moving bed biofilm reactor (mbbr) process. for this purpose,an aerobic pilot was operated for nearly one year in different conditions, in which a moving bed carrier with aspecific biofilm surface area of 500 m2/m3 and a filling rate of 60% was utilized. system...

This paper discusses the use of an approximated charge carrier density to model organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) using a double exponential states. Traditionally, published work employs single states and Gaussian On contrary, this in Fermi integral evaluate for OTFT. We consider two states, one rateled tail region deep region, addition various associated parameters. The distribution localize...

The thermoelectric properties from 300–1275 K of calcium-doped La3 xTe4 are reported. La3 xTe4 is a high temperature n-type thermoelectric material with a previously reported zTmax B 1.1 at 1273 K and x = 0.23. Computational modeling suggests the La atoms define the density of states of the conduction band for La3 xTe4. Doping with Ca 2+ on the La site is explored as a means of modifying the de...

Vertically coupled Stranski Krastanow QDs are predicted to exhibit strong tunnelling interactions that lead to the formation of hybridised states. We report the results of investigations into single pairs of coupled QDs in the presence of an electric field that is able to bring individual carrier levels into resonance and to investigate the Stark shift properties of the excitons present. Pronou...