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Xie, Weiming (author), Sun, J. (author), Guo, Leicheng (author), Xu, Fan (author), Wang, Xianye (author), Ji, Hongyu (author), Fan, Yaoshen (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), He, Qing (author)Coastal tidal flats provide valuable ecosystems, but are highly sensitive to tidal dynamics, sea-level rise, and human activities. Tidal inundation depth and frequency are known to affect tidal flat morphodynamics. However, the causes, processes and extent remain uncertain, particularly given the associated changes in sediment availability. In...journal article 2023
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Persello, Claudio (author), Grift, Jeroen (author), Fan, X. (author), Paris, Claudia (author), Hansch, Ronny (author), Koeva, Mila (author), Nelson, Andrew (author)Agricultural field polygons within smallholder farming systems are essential to facilitate the collection of geo-spatial data useful for farmers, managers, and policymakers. However, the limited availability of training labels poses a challenge in developing supervised methods to accurately delineate field boundaries using Earth observation ...journal article 2023
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Fan, B. (author), Torres García, Diana (author), Salehi, Marziye (author), Webber, Matthew J. (author), van Kasteren, S.I. (author), Eelkema, R. (author)Dextran-based hydrogels are promising therapeutic materials for drug delivery, tissue regeneration devices, and cell therapy vectors, due to their high biocompatibility, along with their ability to protect and release active therapeutic agents. This report describes the synthesis, characterization, and application of a new dynamic covalent...journal article 2023
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Li, G. (author), Wan, Yucheng (author), Lewis, R.W. (author), Fan, B. (author), Eelkema, R. (author)Living systems can respond to their environment through signal transduction cascades. In these cascades, original stimuli are amplified and translated into reaction or assembly events. In an effort to instill synthetic materials with biomimetic responsivity, we report an aggregation process forming a supramolecular network held together by...journal article 2023
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Kouwenhoven, K. (author), Fan, D. (author), Biancalani, Enrico (author), de Rooij, S.A.H. (author), Karim, A.T. (author), Smith, C.S. (author), Murugesan, Vignesh (author), Thoen, David (author), Baselmans, J.J.A. (author), de Visser, P.J. (author)Kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) are superconducting energy-resolving detectors, sensitive to single photons from the near-infrared to ultraviolet. We study a hybrid KID design consisting of a β-phase tantalum (β-Ta) inductor and a Nb-Ti-N interdigitated capacitor. The devices show an average intrinsic quality factor Qi of 4.3×105±1.3×105....journal article 2023
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Fan, Q. (author), van Essen, J.T. (author), Correia, Gonçalo (author)Shared automated vehicles (SAV) are expected to benefit the sustainable development of urban regions and alleviate the negative impacts brought by the increasing number of private cars. In this paper, we envision a future scenario where non-pooled SAVs replace private cars and provide public on-demand mobility services to satisfy the mobility...journal article 2023
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Tu, Botao (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Xu, S. (author), Zhao, Zenggang (author), Zhou, Yuheng (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)As a kind of solid waste, using Prestressed High-Strength Concrete Pile Waste Concrete (PPWC) as the replacement for limestone filler in asphalt concrete can not only reduce the accumulation of PPWC and increase its utilization but also avoid the increased road construction costs and environmental degradation associated with limestone mining....journal article 2023
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van Velde, P.F. (author), Rieger, B. (author), Hinsdale, T.A. (author), Cnossen, J.P. (author), Fan, D. (author), Hung, S. (author), Grunwald, D. (author), Smith, C.S. (author)Three dimensional modulation-enhanced single-molecule localization techniques, such as ModLoc, offer advancements in axial localization precision across the entire field of view and axial capture range, by applying phase shifting to the illumination pattern. However, this improvement is limited by the pitch of the illumination pattern that...journal article 2023
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Tu, Botao (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Xu, S. (author), Liang, X. (author), Liu, C. (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)Using solid waste to replace limestone filler in asphalt concrete can not only reduce the cost of road construction, but also improve the utilization rate of solid waste. In this study, PHC pile waste concrete (PPWC) was innovatively used to replace limestone filler in asphalt mixture and its effect on the physical and rheological properties...journal article 2023
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Yang, Xinkui (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Xu, S. (author), Chen, B. (author), Chen, Dongyu (author), Wang, Fusong (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)Aimed to address the low utilization rate of steel slag (SS) and its challenge in resource utilization in China, this study developed ternary geopolymers made by high-content (50%) SS together with fly ash (FA) and granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS). The effects of GBFS content (0–40%) and curing methods (water curing, standard curing,...journal article 2023
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Li, Wenyu (author), Chen, Wei (author), Jiang, Jing (author), Tang, H. (author), Fan, J. (author)Double-sided packages for heat dissipation are an efficient thermal management mechanism for power semiconductor devices. A fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP), as one of the double-sided forms, exhibits excellent electro–thermal characteristics and provides low stray inductance and thermal resistance. Besides, the temperature at each point...journal article 2023
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Wang, Hanyu (author), Chen, Dengkai (author), Huang, Y. (author), Zhang, Yahan (author), Qiao, Yidan (author), Xiao, Jianghao (author), Xie, Ning (author), Fan, Hao (author)This study aimed to enhance the real-time performance and accuracy of vigilance assessment by developing a hidden Markov model (HMM). Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals were collected and processed to remove noise and baseline drift. A group of 20 volunteers participated in the study. Their heart rate variability (HRV) was measured to train...journal article 2023
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Shi, Can (author), Fan, Zheng (author), Connolly, David P. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Guo, Y. (author)Railway ballast performance is dictated by a complex mix of mechanical properties. These effect its performance at the particle level for example in terms of particle degradation, but also at the track system level in terms of settlement and stability. Therefore this paper seeks to develop new understandings of ballast behaviour and identify...review 2023
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Chen, Minggang (author), Zhang, H. (author), Fan, Q. (author)Silicon MOSFETs-based medium-power (< 50W) Class-D amplifiers (CDAs) switching in the MHz range have gained popularity in recent years, which achieves better linearity thanks to a higher loop gain in the audio band while enabling the use of LC filters with higher cut-off frequencies. However, for high-power (>100 W) CDAs, such switching...conference paper 2023
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Huang, Y. (author), Yu, Suihuai (author), Chu, Jianjie (author), Su, Zhaojing (author), Zhu, Yaokang (author), Wang, Hanyu (author), Wang, Mengcheng (author), Fan, Hao (author)Design knowledge is critical to creating ideas in the conceptual design stage of product development for innovation. Fragmentary design data, massive multidisciplinary knowledge call for the development of a novel knowledge acquisition approach for conceptual product design. This study proposes a Design Knowledge Graph-aided (DKG-aided)...journal article 2023
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Fan, D. (author), Cnossen, J.P. (author), Hung, S. (author), Kromm, D. (author), Dekker, N.H. (author), Verbiest, G.J. (author), Smith, C.S. (author)To better understand the interactions between biological molecules, a high optical resolution in all three dimensions is crucial. The intrinsically lower axial resolution of microscopes however, is a limiting factor in fluorescence imaging, correspondingly in fluorescence based single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM). Here, we present...journal article 2023
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Hu, D. (author), Qian, Cheng (author), Liu, X. (author), Du, L. (author), Sun, Zhongchao (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)As a promising technology for high-power and high-temperature power electronics packaging, nanocopper (nanoCu) paste sintering has recently received increasing attention as a die-attachment. The high-temperature deformation of sintered nanoCu paste and its underlying mechanisms challenge the reliability of high-power electronics packaging. In...journal article 2023
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Wang, Xinyue (author), Yang, Zhoudong (author), Wang, Boya (author), Chen, Wei (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Zhang, Jing (author), Fan, J. (author), Liu, P. (author)Power modules applied in offshore applications are facing risks of corrosion failures on die-attach materials due to high humidity and H<sub>2</sub>S exposure. To investigate such corrosion behavior for sintered die-attach materials, we conducted a study with four groups of samples fabricated using copper and silver metal particles under...journal article 2023
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Karmakar, S. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Berkhout, Marco (author), Fan, Q. (author)This paper presents a Class-D piezoelectric speaker driver that employs a quadrature feedback chopping scheme (QCS). Compared to a conventional single feedback chopping scheme (SCS), the use of QCS can eliminate the timing skew between low-voltage (LV) and high-voltage (HV) choppers, greatly improving large-signal linearity. A prototype...conference paper 2023
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Cui, Z. (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this paper, we apply the Eshelby's solution to study the effect of passivation layer on electromigration (EM) failure in a conductor. The passivation layer is considered as an elastic material, not a rigid layer anymore. Thus, the deformation and stress evolution in the conductor during EM are related to the mechanical property of the...conference paper 2023