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Zhang, Linfeng (author), Han, Haozhe (author), Li, Wenxin (author), Guo, Kewei (author), Yuan, Minglu (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)Energy piles, a technology integrating the heat exchange component within building pile foundations for shallow geothermal energy utilization, have proven economically efficient. They outperform conventional ground source heat pumps by mitigating additional borehole costs and space requirements. This paper systematically examines low-carbon...journal article 2024
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Zhu, Z. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Min, Changjun (author), Adam, A.J.L. (author), Urbach, Paul (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)Optical tweezers have proved to be a powerful tool with a wide range of applications. The gradient force plays a vital role in the stable optical trapping of nano-objects. The scalar method is convenient and effective for analyzing the gradient force in traditional optical trapping. However, when the third-order nonlinear effect of the nano...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Z.H. (author), Andrade, Bruno (author), Wang, Xiaoqiong (author), Aburabee, Ibrahim (author), Yuan, Sinan (author)Traditional Chinese villages act as the essential carriers of China’s rural heritage. Such villages are considered to retain living practices of intangible heritage through know-how, artistic and folk customs, as well as a well-preserved architectural appearance. However, their conservation is at stake due to degradation, abandonment, and...journal article 2024
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Tawfek, Abdullah M. (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Yuan, Huaqiang (author), Zhang, Ning (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ling, Yifeng (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Šavija, B. (author)The mechanical performance of engineered cementitious composite (ECC) depends greatly on fiber orientation and distribution. In this paper, the effect of fiber orientation on ECC's mechanical properties was investigated using two different casting methods: a flow-induced casting was used to enhance the fiber orientation within ECC mixture and...journal article 2023
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Zhu, Z. (author), Zhang, Yu Quan (author), Adam, A.J.L. (author), Min, Changjun (author), Urbach, Paul (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)Stable optical trapping of gold nanoparticles is essential and desirable because of its wide applications in nanotechnology. While several factors have been proposed to affect optical trapping stability, the sample's volume fraction during optical trapping has often been neglected. To address this, by utilizing the effective medium theory, we...journal article 2023
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Dou, X. (author), Zhou, Jiakang (author), Zhang, Yuquan (author), Min, Changjun (author), Pereira, S.F. (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)Optical singularities indicate zero-intensity points in space where parameters, such as phase, polarization, are undetermined. Vortex beams such as the Laguerre–Gaussian modes are characterized by a phase factor e<sup>il</sup><sup>θ</sup>, and contain a phase singularity in the middle of its beam. In the case of a transversal optical...journal article 2023
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Liu, Ke (author), Tan, C. (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Yuan, Wucheng (author), Liu, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), French, P.J. (author), Ye, H. (author), Wang, S. (author)This paper proposes and simulates research on the reverse recovery characteristics of two novel superjunction (SJ) MOSFETs by adjusting the doping profile. In the manufacturing process of the SJ MOSFET using multilayer epitaxial deposition (MED), the position and concentration of each Boron bubble can be adjusted by designing different doping...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Fan (author), Yuan, Baoxin (author), Huang, L. (author), Wen, Yuanqiao (author), Yang, Xue (author), Song, R. (author), van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author)Accurate fishing activity detection from the trajectories of fishing vessels can not only achieve high-precision fishery management but also ensure the reasonable and sustainable development of marine fishery resources. This paper proposes a new method to detect fishing vessels’ fishing activities based on the defined local dynamic parameters...journal article 2023
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Zhu, Z. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Zhang, Shuoshuo (author), Adam, A.J.L. (author), Min, Changjun (author), Urbach, Paul (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)Nonlinear responses of nanoparticles induce enlightening phenomena in optical tweezers. With the gradual increase in optical intensity, effects from saturable absorption (SA) and reverse SA (RSA) arise in sequence and thereby modulate the nonlinear properties of materials. In current nonlinear optical traps, however, the underlying physical...journal article 2023
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Wang, Kai (author), Xue, Yu (author), Xu, Hao (author), Huang, Lianzhong (author), Ma, Ranqi (author), Zhang, Peng (author), Jiang, X. (author), Yuan, Yupeng (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Sun, Peiting (author)Wing-diesel engine-powered hybrid ships can effectively reduce fuel consumption and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions by using wind energy as the auxiliary driving power. The energy optimization management of the hybrid system can further improve the ship's energy efficiency. To achieve this purpose, it is significant to establish an effective energy...journal article 2022
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Cai, Jitao (author), Wu, Jiansong (author), Yuan, S. (author), Kong, Desheng (author), Zhang, Xiaole (author)Natural gas compartment accommodated in utility tunnels is beneficial in meeting the pressing demand of energy supply and sustainable urban environment. However, the leaking gas characterized by flammable and explosive can pose a huge threat to the safe operation of the utility tunnel. When an unexpected gas leakage accident happens in the...journal article 2022
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Sang, Xianke (author), Tong, Feifei (author), Zeng, Zhigang (author), Wu, Minghu (author), Yuan, Bo (author), Sun, Zhoutong (author), Sheng, Xiang (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Zhang, W. (author)Propargylic alcohols and amines are versatile building blocks in organic synthesis. We demonstrate a straightforward enzymatic cascade to synthesize enantiomerically pure propargylic alcohols and amines from readily available racemic starting materials. In the first step, the peroxygenase from Agrocybe aegerita converted the racemic...journal article 2022
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Dou, X. (author), Min, Changjun (author), Zhang, Yuquan (author), Pereira, S.F. (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)Accurate determination of the physical parameters of nanostructures from optical far-field scattering is an important and challenging topic in the semiconductor industry. Here, we propose a novel metrology method to determine simultaneously the height and side-wall angle of a step-shaped silicon nanostructure. By employing an optical singular...journal article 2022
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Zhang, H. (author), Fu, Rui (author), Wang, Chang (author), Guo, Yingshi (author), Yuan, W. (author)Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication has provided a solution for the improvement of the traffic efficiency of smart city intersections. For example, turning maneuvers prediction at signalized intersections in a connected environment helps traffic command centers time traffic lights and dynamically predict traffic flow. However, the...journal article 2022
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Cheng, Long (author), Zhang, Lei (author), Liu, X. (author), Yuan, Fang (author), Ma, Yang (author), Sun, Yinqing (author)Reliable assessment of the fatigue resistance of asphalt pavement with a long-term service is critically crucial for the rational formulation of original pavement utilization strategies in reconstruction and expansion projects. Currently, the pavement performance evaluation indicators are mainly used to guide pavement preventive maintenance,...journal article 2022
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Ma, Xinwei (author), Zhang, Shuai (author), Jin, Yuchuan (author), Zhu, Minqing (author), Yuan, Y. (author)Metro-bikeshare integration, an important way of improving the efficiency of public transportation, has grown rapidly during the last decades in many countries. However, most previous analysis of metro-bikeshare transfer trips were based on limited sample size and the number of recognized metro-bikeshare trips were not sufficient. The primary...journal article 2022
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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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Yuan, S. (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Zhang, Lixian (author)This article investigates the stability of continuous-time switched linear systems with dwell-time constraints. A fresh insight into this established problem is provided via novel stability conditions that require the solution to a family of differential Lyapunov equations and algebraic Lyapunov equations. The proposed analysis, which leads...journal article 2021
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He, Yingdong (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Yuan, Jing (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Wang, Zhe (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)Cleaner power production, distributed renewable generation, building-vehicle integration, hydrogen storage and associated infrastructures are promising for transformation towards a carbon–neutral community, whereas the academia provides limited information through integrated solutions, like intermittent renewable integration, hydrogen sharing...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Shuoshuo (author), Zhang, Yuquan (author), Fu, Yanan (author), Zhu, Z. (author), Man, Zhongsheng (author), Bu, Jing (author), Fang, Hui (author), Min, Changjun (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)Single molecule detection and analysis play important roles in many current biomedical researches. The deep-nanoscale hotspots, being excited and confined in a plasmonic nanocavity, make it possible to simultaneously enhance the nonlinear light-matter interactions and molecular Raman scattering for label-free detections. Here, we...journal article 2021