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Chen, Wei (author), Chen, Ye (author), Cao, Yixing (author), Cui, Z. (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)In a light-emitting diode (LED) package, silicone encapsulant serves as a chip protector and enables the light to transmit, since it exhibits the advantages of high light transmittance, high refractive index, and high thermal stability. However, its reliability is still challenged under harsh operation conditions. In this study, the optical...journal article 2022
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Wang, Jue (author), Yuan, Weiyi (author), Li, Z. (author), Trofimov, Yuri (author), Lishik, Sergey (author), Fan, J. (author)Some atrial contractile assist devices applied on the heart surface can be regarded as a laminated Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) plate under steady temperature loads and a contact mechanical force. An exact solution for the deformation of the laminated LCE plate under combined thermal and mechanical loads is derived by solving the three...journal article 2022
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Fang, B. (author), Lu, T. (author), Cheng, Liwei (author), Wang, Dongdong (author), Ni, Yang (author), Fan, Bowen (author), Meng, Jiuling (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author), Ning, Fulong (author)Methane hydrate dissociation kinetics can be inhibited in NaCl solutions; however, this effect is reversed by promoting bubble formation that enhances dissociation. The negative and positive effects of inorganic salt injection on gas production from hydrate-bearing sediments are still controversial. Here, molecular dynamics simulations were...journal article 2022
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Li, Mingliang (author), Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Wu, Zhe (author), Zhang, Haopeng (author), Fan, Weiyu (author), Lin, P. (author), Xu, Jian (author)This study aims to comprehensively investigate the rejuvenation efficiency of various self-developed compound rejuvenators on the physical, mechanical, and aging properties of aged bitumen, asphalt mortar, and mixture. The results revealed that the restoration capacity of vacuum distilled-oil rejuvenators on high-and-low temperature performance...journal article 2022
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Cao, Yixing (author), Chen, Wei (author), Du, Yunjia (author), Qi, Gaojin (author), Santos, Thebano (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)YAG: Ce3+ phosphor/silicone composites are widely used in solid-state lighting as a light converter to achieve white lighting. However, because of high thermal resistance and low thermal stability, the luminous performance of YAG: Ce3+ phosphor/silicone composite deteriorates rapidly when excited by high-power-density blue-laser. To explore...journal article 2022
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Zhang, H. (author), Berkhout, Marco (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Fan, Q. (author)This article presents a class-D amplifier (CDA) with high dynamic range (DR). To eliminate the typically dominant noise contribution of a resistive feedback network, the input and feedback signals are chopped and applied to a capacitive feedback network. However, this leads to high-voltage (HV) transients at the input of the loop filter,...journal article 2022
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Karmakar, S. (author), Berkhout, Marco (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Fan, Q. (author)This article presents a Class-D audio amplifier for capacitive piezoelectric speaker loads. Employing a dual voltage feedback (VFB)/current feedback (CFB) topology, the amplifier is capable of damping LC resonance without using an external damping resistor, therefore reducing system power consumption, cost, and size. Additional power savings are...journal article 2022
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Li, Shizhen (author), Liu, Yang (author), Ye, H. (author), Liu, X. (author), Sun, Fenglian (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)This paper studied the behaviors of sintering between Ag nanoparticle (NP) and nanoflake (NF) in the same size by molecular dynamics simulation. Before the sintering simulation, the melting simulation of NF was carried out to calculate the melting points of NFs and investigate the thermostability of NF. The Lindemann index and potential...journal article 2022
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Xin, Jianjian (author), Shi, Fulong (author), Fan, Shi (author), Jin, Qiu (author), Chang, X. (author)The water impact of one and twin free-falling wedges is numerically investigated by a Cartesian grid multiphase flow model. The effects of the drop velocity and the gap distance on the hydrodynamic behaviors are parametrically investigated. The numerical model involves a radial basis function ghost cell method (RBFGCM) for treating moving...journal article 2022
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Ye, G. (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this paper, we presented several practical aspects for building robust and reliable finite element models in thermomechanical modeling in electronics packaging using finite element analysis. Firstly, for layered or patterned structures, a homogenized equivalent model, with equivalent orthotropic material properties, gives excellent...journal article 2022
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Kalmar, E. (author), Aarts, Tom (author), Bosman, Esther (author), Ford, Camera (author), de Kluijver, Lisa (author), Beets, Josine (author), Veldkamp, Lisette (author), Timmers, Pauline (author), Besseling, Diede (author), Koopman, Joris (author), Fan, Chuntzu (author), Berrevoets, Enya (author), Trotsenburg, Melissa (author), Maton, Loes (author), van Remundt, Jill (author), Sari, Ela (author), Omar, Lee Wen (author), Beinema, Emiel (author), Winkel, R.N.W. (author), van der Sanden, M.C.A. (author)Collaborative learning is a teaching method that brings together students to discuss a topic important for a given course or curriculum and solve a related problem or create a product. By doing this, learners create knowledge together and gain 21<sup>st</sup> –century skills such as communication, critical thinking, decision making,...journal article 2022
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Zhang, H. (author), Berkhout, Marco (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Fan, Q. (author)Class-D audio amplifiers produce electromagnetic interference (EMI), which often needs to be suppressed by an external LC filter. However, due to component nonlinearity, this filter can itself cause significant distortion. This article presents a class-D amplifier that suppresses LC filter nonlinearity by 49 dB and is robust to ±30%...journal article 2022
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Hung, S. (author), Cnossen, J.P. (author), Fan, D. (author), Siemons, Marijn (author), Jurriens, Daphne (author), Grußmayer, K.S. (author), Soloviev, O.A. (author), Kapitein, Lukas C. (author), Smith, C.S. (author)High-NA light sheet illumination can improve the resolution of single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) by reducing the background fluorescence. These approaches currently require custom-made sample holders or additional specialized objectives, which makes the sample mounting or the optical system complex and therefore reduces the...journal article 2022
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Fan, Jiajie (author), Jiang, Dawei (author), Zhang, Hao (author), Hu, D. (author), Liu, X. (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Nano-copper sintering is one of new die-attachment and interconnection solutions to realize the wide bandgap semiconductor power electronics packaging with benefits on high temperature, low inductance, low thermal resistance and low cost. Aiming to assess the high-temperature reliability of sintered nano-copper die-attachment and...journal article 2022
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Ye, Guigen (author), Fan, X. (author), Middelburg, L.M. (author), el Mansouri, B. (author), Poelma, René H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this paper, stability and mechanistic simulations for a four-beam-mass-based MEMS gravimeter were conducted, and guidelines for the gravimeter design were proposed. Based on a prototyped MEMS device, the nonlinear finite element model was validated first against the experimental results. Then, we demonstrated three different scenarios in...journal article 2022
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Cui, Z. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Hu, D. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Fan, J. (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Understanding the atomic diffusion features in metallic material is significant to explain the diffusion-controlled physical processes. In this paper, using electromigration experiments and molecular dynamic (MD) simulations, we investigate the effects of grain size and temperature on the self-diffusion of polycrystalline aluminium (Al). The...journal article 2022
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Fan, J. (author), Jing, Zhou (author), Cao, Yixing (author), Ibrahim, Mesfin Seid (author), Li, Min (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)With their advantages of high efficiency, long lifetime, compact size and being free of mercury, ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV LEDs) are widely applied in disinfection and purification, photolithography, curing and biomedical devices. However, it is challenging to assess the reliability of UV LEDs based on the traditional life test or...journal article 2021
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Yuan, Cadmus (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Solder joint fatigue is one of the critical failure modes in ball-grid array packaging. Because the reliability test is time-consuming and geometrical/material nonlinearities are required for the physics-driven model, the AI-assisted simulation framework is developed to establish the risk estimation capability against the design and process...journal article 2021
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Ibrahim, Mesfin Seid (author), Fan, J. (author), Yung, Winco K.C. (author), Jing, Zhou (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The increased system complexity in electronic products brings challenges in a system level reliability assessment and lifetime estimation. Traditionally, the graph model-based reliability block diagrams (RBD) and fault tree analysis (FTA) have been used to assess the reliability of products and systems. However, these methods are based on...journal article 2021
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Zhang, B. (author), Damian, A.A. (author), Zijl, Jurrian (author), van Zeijl, H.W. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Fan, J. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)There is a high demand for the implementation of metallic nanoparticle (NP) sintering technology for die attach in high-power electronics. The performance of this technology is superior to that of the technology involving the use of lead-free solders. Although Cu NP paste is potentially a low-cost material, it faces the challenge of oxidation...journal article 2021