Effect of carrier screening on ZnO-based resistive switching memory devices

The carrier screening effect occurs commonly in dielectric materials. It reduces the electric potential gradient, thus negatively affecting the functionality of resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices. An Au/ZnO film/Al-doped ZnO device fabricated in this work exhibited no resistive switching (RS), which was attributed to the carrier screening effect. Therefore, annealing was used for alleviating the screening effect, significantly enhancing the RS property. In addition, different on/off ratios were obtained for various bias values, and the screening effect was accounted for by investigating electron transport mechanisms. Furthermore, different annealing temperatures were employed to modulate the free carrier concentration in ZnO films to alleviate the screening effect. The maximal on/off ratio reached 10⁵ at an annealing temperature of 600 °C, yielding the lowest number of free carriers and the weakest screening effect in ZnO films. This work investigates the screening effect in RS devices. The screening effect not only modulates the characteristics of memory devices but also provides insight into the mechanism of RS in these devices.

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Comparison of the effects of Mg–6Zn and titanium on intestinal tract in vivo

To evaluate the ability of Mg–6Zn to replace titanium nails in the reconstruction of the intestinal tract in general surgery, we compared the Mg–6Zn and titanium implants with respect to their effects on rat’s intestinal tract by biochemical, radiological, pathological and immunohistochemical methods. The results indicated that Mg–6Zn implants started to degrade at the third week and disintegrate at the fourth week. No bubbles appeared, which may be associated with intestinal absorption of the Mg–6Zn implants. Pathological analyses (containing liver, kidney and cecum tissues) and biochemical measurements, including serum magnesium, creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, glutamic–pyruvic–transaminase and glutamic–oxaloacetic–transaminase proved that degradation of Mg–6Zn did not harm the important organs, which is an improvement over titanium implants. Immunohistochemical results showed that Mg–6Zn could enhance the expression of transforming growth factor-β₁. Mg–6Zn reduced the expression of tumor necrosis factor at different stages. In general, our study demonstrates that the Mg–6Zn alloy had good biocompatibility in vivo and performed better than titanium at promoting healing and reducing inflammation. It may be a promising candidate for stapler pins in intestinal reconstruction.     

利用Visual C++开发Pro/ENGINEER三维标准库

从提高产品设计效率和质量出发,探讨了参数化设计功能和Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire环境下三维模型参数化设计的实现策略和途径,分析了基于Pro/TOOLKIT二次开发的三维标准件库参数化设计的过程,并给出了应用实例。     

On symbolic manipulation and code generation of a hybrid three-dimensional solid element

A symbolic procedure is utilized to derive the analytical expressions of the component matrices resulting to the closed-form integration of a stiffness matrix of a hybrid finite element. In order to alleviate the expression growth problem, we employ special techniques, including the use of symmetry conditions, pattern search, and introduction of intermediate variables, so that the final form of the derived stiffness matrix is suitable for coding implementation. Application of the symbolic procedure is made on a hybrid three-dimensional 8-node solid element. The same procedure is equally applicable to other types of hybrid elements.     

Insight into crystal growth and upconversion luminescence property of tetragonal Ba3Sc2F12 nanocrystals

Sc-based nanomaterials have attracted consid-erable attention due to their unique optical properties dif-ferent from those of Ln/Y-based nanomaterials.However,s...     

当前行业发展热点问题探讨

在分析当前内、外部经济环境的基础上,探讨了新产品开发、创新与可持续发展、互动发展等行业发展问题,指出在成本上升、需求回落、资金面趋紧等所造成的企业生存危机面前.企业应谨慎投资.优化发展模式.     

利用动态规划和电势理论规划UAV三维航迹

用改进的电势理论规划无人机的三维航迹。充分考虑了地形威胁、火力及雷达威胁同时存在的情况,并对它们的权重对航迹规划的影响进行了研究。通过限制航线到包含任务起止点直线的距离,不但克服了电势法无法收敛目标点的问题,而且可以缩短飞行航程;研究惩罚函数中各因素不同权重对飞行航线的影响,选择出最优权重系数;通过仿真试验可知,该方法能够成功地为无人机规划出安全的飞行路径。     

Artistic features extraction from chinese calligraphy works via regional guided filter with reference image

Chinese calligraphy is a unique visual art, and and is one of the material basis of China’s traditional cultural heritage. However, time had caused the old calligraphy works to weathering and damages, so it is necessary to utilize advanced technologies to protect those works. One of those technologies is digital imaging, and the obtained images by digital imaging can preserve the visual information of calligraphy works better, furthermore, they can be used in further researches. While the basic works for those researches are to extract the artistic features which include two elements, i.e., form and spirit. However, most of the existing methods only extract the form and ignore the characters’ spirit, especially they are insensitive to the slight variation in complex ink strokes. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an extraction method based on regional guided flter (RGF) with reference images, which is generated by KNN matting and used as the input image for RGF. Since RGF is sensitive to the slight variation of ink, so the detailed information of the inside of strokes can be detected better. Besides, unlike the past works, which filter the whole strokes, RGF filters the inside of strokes and edges in different windows respectively, which results in that the edges are preserved accurately. Results from a deployment of several famous Chinese calligraphy works demonstrate that our method can extract more accurate and complete form and spirit with lower error rate.