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Yang, Yueming (author), Wang, Xurong (author), Hooman, K. (author), Han, Kuihua (author), Xu, Jinliang (author), He, Suoying (author), Qi, Jianhui (author)Recently, the supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO<sub>2</sub>) power cycle has become a hotspot in the field of energy-efficient utilization. The utilization of additives in the power cycle has been proven to be an effective way to improve the SCO<sub>2</sub> power cycle efficiency. As one of the core components of the system, the influence of...journal article 2023
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Bao, Hesheng (author), Han, Jinlin (author), Zhang, Yan (author), Di Matteo, Andrea (author), Roekaerts, D.J.E.M. (author), Van Oijen, Jeroen (author), Somers, Bart (author)In the current work, the Flamelet Generated Manifold (FGM) method is applied with large-eddy simulation (LES) to investigate the effect of methane on dual-fuel (DF) spray ignition. The diesel surrogate n-dodecane is injected as the so-called pilot fuel into selected lean methane–air mixtures, ranging from ϕ<sub>CH<sub>4</sub></sub>=0 to ϕ<sub...journal article 2023
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Bai, Wei (author), Xu, X. (author), Liu, Yaolan (author), Liang, Yunxiao (author), Shen, Yijie (author), Han, Zhenyu (author), Sheng, Zhendong (author), Chen, Rong (author), Zhu, Minhao (author)Systematic experimental investigations were conducted to study the microstructures and impact toughness of each heat affected zone (HAZ) formed during rail flash-butt welding. A high-strength carbide-free bainitic rail steel was subjected to different thermal simulation cycles to separately reproduce each HAZ subzone by tailoring the peak...journal article 2023
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Rhee, Jee Heon (author), Schermer, Brian (author), Han, Gisung (author), Park, S.Y. (author), Lee, Kyung Hoon (author)This study investigates the effects of natural exposure in an indoor environment on restorative quality and cognitive ability. Thirty participants were shown nature at three different indoor sites: baseline, indoor (some vegetation), and semi-indoor (a large amount of vegetation and view to sky) for five minutes. After viewing, they completed...journal article 2023
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Chen, Siyu (author), Chen, Can (author), Ma, Tao (author), Han, Chengjia (author), Luo, Haoyuan (author), Wang, Siqi (author), Gao, Y. (author), Yang, Yaowen (author)Usage of asphalt mixture with poor gradation will most likely lead to pavement deficiency. There is a growing need for rapid and non-destructive methods to extract pavement aggregate gradation. In this study, a deep learning-based method that utilizes point clouds data for gradation extraction was proposed. Firstly, a data enhancement...journal article 2023
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Han, Ziyue (author), Li, Xinhong (author), Zhang, Renren (author), Yang, M. (author), Seghier, Mohamed El Amine Ben (author)Extension of operating lifetime of aging subsea pipelines is of great interest to oil and gas sectors. Corrosion and fatigue are the main causations of the condition degradation of subsea pipelines. A dynamic probabilistic condition assessment model based on continuous dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) is developed to support the life extension...journal article 2023
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Han, L. (author), Chan, M. (author), de Jong, D. (author), Prosko, C.G. (author), Badawy, Ghada (author), Gazibegovic, Sasa (author), Bakkers, Erik P.A.M. (author), Kouwenhoven, Leo P. (author), Malinowski, F.K. (author), Pfaff, Wolfgang (author)Utilizing dispersive gate sensing (DGS), we investigate the spin-orbit field (BSO) orientation in a many-electron double quantum dot (DQD) defined in an InSb nanowire. While characterizing the interdot tunnel couplings, we find the measured dispersive signal depends on the electron-charge occupancy, as well as on the amplitude and orientation...journal article 2023
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Yang, G. (author), Gram, Remon (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Yao, Z. (author), Singh, M. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Passivating contacts based on poly-Si have enabled record-high c-Si solar cell efficiencies due to their excellent surface passivation quality and carrier selectivity. The eventual existence of pinholes within the ultra-thin SiOx layer is one of the key factors for carrier collection, beside the tunneling mechanism. However, pinholes are usually...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Y. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Cao, L. (author), Yang, G. (author), Özkol, E. (author), Alcañiz, Alba (author), Kovačević, K. (author), Limodio, G. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have achieved a record efficiency of 26.81% in a front/back-contacted (FBC) configuration. Moreover, thanks to their advantageous high V<sub>OC</sub> and good infrared response, SHJ solar cells can be further combined with wide bandgap perovskite cells forming tandem devices to enable efficiencies well...journal article 2023
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Yao, Z. (author), Yang, G. (author), Han, C. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Özkol, E. (author), Yan, J. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Cao, L. (author), van Swaaij, R.A.C.M.M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Passivating contacts are crucial for realizing high-performance crystalline silicon solar cells. Herein, contact formation by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) followed by an annealing step is focused on. Poly-SiO<sub>x</sub> passivating contacts by combining plasma-assisted N<sub>2</sub>O-based oxidation of silicon (PANO-SiO...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Y. (author), Datta, Kunal (author), Paggiaro, Giulia (author), Liu, Hanchen (author), Fardousi, Mohua (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Yang, G. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Monolithic perovskite/c-Si tandem solar cells have attracted enormous research attention and have achieved efficiencies above 30%. This work describes the development of monolithic tandem solar cells based on silicon heterojunction (SHJ) bottom- and perovskite top-cells and highlights light management techniques assisted by optical simulation...journal article 2023
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Jin, J. (author), Fang, Li (author), Li, Baojie (author), Liao, Hong (author), Wang, Ye (author), Han, Wei (author), Li, Ke (author), Pang, Mijie (author), Wu, Xingyi (author), Lin, H.X. (author)Atmospheric ammonia has been hazardous to the environment and human health for decades. Current inventories are usually constructed in a bottom-up manner and subject to uncertainties and incapable of reproducing the spatiotemporal characteristics of ammonia emission. Satellite measurements, for example, Infrared Atmospheric Sounder...journal article 2023
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Han, Fei (author), Zhang, Mengru (author), Li, Zhe (author), Liu, Zhe (author), Han, Yufei (author), Li, L. (author), Zhou, Weizhi (author)Marine microorganisms have an inherent advantage in the treatment of saline wastewater due to their halophilic properties. Ammonium assimilation is the most important and common nitrogen conversion pathway in the ocean, which means that it may be a suitable nitrogen removal strategy under high salinity conditions. However, the targeted...journal article 2023
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Wen, Shilin (author), Han, Rui (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Edge-cloud applications are rapidly prevailing in recent years and pose the challenge of using both resource-strenuous edge devices and elastic cloud resources under dynamic workloads. Efficient resource allocation on edge-cloud jobs via cluster schedulers (e.g. Kubernetes/Volcano scheduler) is essential to guarantee their performance, e.g....journal article 2023
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Luopan, Yaxin (author), Han, Rui (author), Zhang, Qinglong (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been ubiquitously adopted in internet of things and are becoming an integral of our daily life. When tackling the evolving learning tasks in real world, such as classifying different types of objects, DNNs face the challenge to continually retrain themselves according to the tasks on different edge devices....conference paper 2023
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Zhang, Qinglong (author), Han, Rui (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Vision applications powered by deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed on edge devices and solve the learning tasks of incoming data streams whose class label and input feature continuously evolve, known as domain shift. Despite its prominent presence in real-world edge scenarios, existing benchmarks used by domain adaptation methods...conference paper 2023
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de Jong, D. (author), Prosko, C.G. (author), Han, L. (author), Malinowski, F.K. (author), Liu, Yu (author), Kouwenhoven, Leo P. (author), Pfaff, Wolfgang (author)Cooper pair splitters hold utility as a platform for investigating the entanglement of electrons in Cooper pairs, but probing splitters with voltage-biased Ohmic contacts prevents the retention of electrons from split pairs since they can escape to the drain reservoirs. We report the ability to controllably split and retain single Cooper...journal article 2023
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Ferreira, Vanessa M. (author), Plein, Sven (author), Wong, Timothy C. (author), Tao, Q. (author), Raisi-Estabragh, Zahra (author), Jain, Supriya S. (author), Han, Yuchi (author), Ojha, Vineeta (author), Kim, Jiwon (author)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic that has affected nearly 600 million people to date across the world. While COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory illness, cardiac injury is also known to occur. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is uniquely capable of characterizing myocardial tissue properties in...review 2023
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Han, Heejoo (author), Kim, Daehyun D. (author), Song, Min Joon (author), Yun, Taeho (author), Yoon, Hyun (author), Lee, Hong Woon (author), Kim, Young Mo (author), Laureni, M. (author), Yoon, S.Y. (author)Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are a major source of N<sub>2</sub>O, a potent greenhouse gas with 300 times higher global warming potential than CO<sub>2</sub>. Several approaches have been proposed for mitigation of N<sub>2</sub>O emissions from WWTPs and have shown promising yet only site-specific results. Here, self-sustaining...journal article 2023
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Wang, Xiaoda (author), Zhao, Yuqing (author), Han, Lumin (author), Li, Ling (author), Kiss, A.A. (author)Cylcohexanol is an essential bulk chemical that can be produced via cyclohexene hydration, a liquid-liquid two-phase reaction that is limited by the low reaction rate and the equilibrium conversion. Adding an appropriate solvent is the most promising method to break through these limitations. However, in previous works the solvent was almost...journal article 2023