Superior Thermoelectric Performance of Textured Ca3Co4−xO9+δ Ceramic Nanoribbons

Calcium cobaltite Ca₃Co_4−xO_9+δ (CCO) is a promising p-type thermoelectric (TE) material for high-temperature applications in air. The grains of the material exhibit strong anisotropic properties, making texturing and nanostructuring mostly favored to improve thermoelectric performance. On the one hand multitude of interfaces are needed within the bulk material to create reflecting surfaces that can lower the thermal conductivity. On the other hand, low residual porosity is needed to improve the contact between grains and raise the electrical conductivity. In this study, CCO fibers with 100% flat cross sections in a stacked, compact form are electrospun. Then the grains within the nanoribbons in the plane of the fibers are grown. Finally, the nanoribbons are electrospun into a textured ceramic that features simultaneously a high electrical conductivity of 177 S cm⁻¹ and an immensely enhanced Seebeck coefficient of 200 µV K⁻¹ at 1073 K are assembled. The power factor of 4.68 µW cm⁻¹ K⁻² at 1073 K in air surpasses all previous CCO TE performances of nanofiber ceramics by a factor of two. Given the relatively high power factor combined with low thermal conductivity, a relatively large figure-of-merit of 0.3 at 873 K in the air for the textured nanoribbon ceramic is obtained.     

Harnessing “Click”‐Type Chemistry for the Preparation of Novel Electronic Materials

Sequence‐independent or “click”‐type chemistry is applied for the preparation of novel π‐conjugated oligomers. A variety of bi‐functional monomers for Wittig–Horner olefination are developed and applied in a sequential protection–deprotection process for the preparation of structurally similar π‐conjugated oligomers. Selected oligomers are incorporated as the organic semiconductors in light‐emitting diodes and a field‐effect transistor, demonstrating the potential of the approach.     

Perceptual audio data concealment and watermarking scheme using direct frequency domain substitution

A method is described for perceptually transparent data concealment and watermarking in audio. The proposed system replaces redundant and imperceptible frequency components with hidden data. A psychoacoustic model is used to identify suitable frequency locations for data hiding. Such a method is complicated by the windowing and overlapping requirements used for signal conditioning. The proposed system uses data flipping in place of windowing and incorporates a novel data detection scheme with adaptive weighting to increase the robustness of the watermark transmission. The resistance of the watermarking system to filtering, amplitude scaling and additive white noise is measured and results presented.     

Simple iterative receivers for MIMO LP-OFDM systems

In this paper,Lp-ofdm is combined with differentMimo schemes in order to improve performance in terms of diversity gain and to exploit capacity brought by theMimo channel. The original contribution is the development of a generic iterative receiver designed forLp mimo transmission able to work whatever the antenna configuration and the spatial coding scheme. By using a globalMmse criterion, interference terms coming from space-time coding and linear precoding are jointly treated leading to a very good trade-off between performance and complexity compared to trellis based detectors particularly for high order modulations, high number of antennas and/or large size of precoding matrices.     

Interface state densities, low frequency noise and electron mobility in surface channel In0.53Ga0.47As n-MOSFETs with a ZrO2 gate dielectric

This paper reports on an investigation of interface state densities, low frequency noise and electron mobility in surface channel In_0.53Ga_0.47As n-MOSFETs with a ZrO₂ gate dielectric. Interface state density values of D_it ∼ 5 × 10¹² cm⁻² eV⁻¹ were extracted using sub-threshold slope analysis and charge pumping technique. The same order of magnitude of trap density was found from low frequency noise measurements. A peak effective electron mobility of 1200 cm²/Vs has been achieved. For these surface channel In_0.53Ga_0.47As n-MOSFETs, it was found that η parameter, an empirical parameter used to calculate the effective electric field, was ∼0.55, and is to be comparable to the standard value found in Si device.     

Review on Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation of GPON and EPON

The passive optical network (PON) technology has been drastically improved in recent years. In spite of using the optical technology, the utilization of the entire bandwidth is a very challenging task. The main categories of PON are the Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) and gigabit passive optical network (GPON). These two networks use the dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) algorithm to attain the maximum usage of bandwidth, which is provided in the network dynamically according to the need of the customers with the support of the service level agreement (SLA). This paper will provide a clear review about the DBA algorithm of both technologies as well as the comparison.