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Wu, Jiantao (author), Wang, Haoan (author), Liu, Quan (author), Gao, Y. (author), Liu, Shengjie (author)Owing to the continuous increase of traffic loads, bitumen modification has been manifested as an efficient methodology to enhance asphaltic pavement performance. Currently, the modification index, defined as the ratio of mechanical properties (e.g., complex modulus) before and after bitumen modification, is extensively adopted to evaluate the...journal article 2022
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Gasparsilva, Jose Rui (author), Finkel, M. (author), Laauwen, Wouter (author), Westerweld, Menno (author), More, Nikhil (author), Young, Abram (author), Kulesa, Craig (author), Walker, Christopher (author), Van der Tak, Floris (author), Gao, J.R. (author)We report a high accuracy pointing technique for quasi-optical hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixers in focal-plane arrays designed to operate at 1.4, 1.9, and 4.7 THz. The high accuracy pointing is achieved by prealignment of a HEB chip to a lens, measuring the angular error of each mixer in an array assembly, and then realignment of the chip...journal article 2022
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Xu, J. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Wu, Y. (author), Gao, Fei (author), Wang, Y. (author), Tang, Houjun (author), Bauer, P. (author)A three-phase buck-type rectifier features a step-down ac-dc conversion function, which is considered as a prominent solution for electric vehicle chargers and telecommunication systems integrated to the grid above 380 V line to line. However, traditional solutions for those applications employ cascaded architectures with an ac-dc boost-type...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Erkens, S. (author)Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation plays an effective role in predicting the critical properties and explaining the macroscale phenomenon at the nanoscale. This review summarized the application cases of MD simulations in various bitumen systems, considering aging, modification, and rejuvenation factors. Meanwhile, the potential relationships...review 2022
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Vaccaro, D. (author), Akamatsu, H. (author), Gottardi, L (author), Van Der Kuur, J. (author), Taralli, E. (author), de Wit, M. (author), Bruijn, MP (author), den Hartog, R (author), Gao, J.R. (author)We present a characterization of the sensitivity of TES X-ray micro-calorimeters to environmental conditions under frequency-domain multiplexing (FDM) readout. In the FDM scheme, each TES in a readout chain is in series with a LC band-pass filter and AC biased with an independent carrier at MHz range. Using TES arrays, cold readout circuitry and...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Erkens, S. (author)The cohesive and adhesive performances of bituminous materials significantly affect the service life of asphalt pavement. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method has been proved as an effective tool to predict the thermodynamics parameters of different multisubstance and multi-phase bitumen models during different diffusion, self-healing,...review 2022
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Chen, Qinyu (author), Gao, C. (author), Fu, Yuxiang (author)Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising alternatives to artificial neural networks (ANNs) since they are more realistic brain-inspired computing models. SNNs have sparse neuron firing over time, i.e., spatiotemporal sparsity; thus, they are helpful in enabling energy-efficient hardware inference. However, exploiting the spatiotemporal...journal article 2022
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de Wit, Martin (author), Gottardi, L (author), Nagayoshi, K. (author), Akamatsu, H. (author), de Bruijn, M.P. (author), Ridder, M.L. (author), Taralli, E. (author), Vaccaro, D. (author), Gao, J.R. (author)In the early 2030s, ESAs new X-ray observatory, Athena, is scheduled to be launched. It will carry two main<br/>instruments, one of which is the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU), an X-ray imaging spectrometer, which will consist of an array of several thousand transition-edge sensors (TESs) with a proposed energy resolution of 2.5 eV for photon...conference paper 2022
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Gao, J.R. (author), Gan, Y. (author), Mirzaei, B. (author), Silva, J. R.G. (author), Cherednichenko, S. (author)Heterodyne receivers combining a NbN HEB mixer with a local oscillator (LO) are the work horse for high resolution (≥106) spectroscopic observations at supra-terahertz frequencies. We report an MgB2 HEB mixer working at 5.3 THz with<br/>20 K operation temperature based on a previously published paper [Y. Gan et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., 119, 202601...conference paper 2022
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Walker, C (author), Kusela, C. (author), Young, A (author), Verts, W. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Hu, Qing (author), Silva, J. R.G. (author), Mirzaei, B. (author), Laauwen, Wouter (author)Gal/Xgal U/LDB Spectroscopic/ Stratospheric THz Observatory (GUSTO) is a NASA Explorers Mission of Opportunity that will make large scale maps of the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud in three important interstellar lines: [CII], [OI], and [NII] at 158, 63, and 205 μm, respectively. During its ~75 day stratospheric (~36 km) flight, GUSTO’s 0...conference paper 2022
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Liu, X. (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Liu, Yang (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Nano copper sintering technology has great potential to be widely applied in the wide-bandgap semiconductor packaging. In order to investigate the coalescence kinetics of copper nano particles for this application, a molecular dynamic (MD) simulation was carried out at low temperature on a special model containing two substrate and multiple...journal article 2022
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Vaccaro, Davide (author), Akamatsu, Hiroki (author), Bruijn, Marcel (author), Gottardi, Luciano (author), Den Hartog, Roland (author), Van Der Kuur, Jan (author), Ridder, Marcel (author), De Wit, Martin (author), Gao, J.R. (author)We have measured and characterized the thermal crosstalk in two different arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) X-ray microcalorimeters with frequency-domain multiplexing (FDM) readout. The TES arrays are fabricated at SRON and are a 8 × 8 and a 32 × 32 'kilo-pixel' uniform array. The amount of crosstalk is evaluated as the ratio between the...journal article 2022
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Khabbazan, S. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Vermunt, P.C. (author), Judge, J. (author), Vreugdenhil, M. (author), Gao, G. (author)The presence of surface water on the canopy affects radar backscatter. However, its influence on the relationship between radar backscatter and crop biophysical parameters has not been investigated. The aim of this study was to quantify the influence of surface canopy water (SCW) on the relationship between L-band radar backscatter and...journal article 2022
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Gao, Y. (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author), Zhang, Chao (author), Liu, X. (author), Jing, R. (author)Bitumen in asphalt pavements reacts slowly with atmospheric oxygen, resulting in oxidative ageing. This oxidative reaction is strongly dependent on the physical diffusion of the oxygen into the bitumen. This study aims to use molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to investigate the oxygen diffusion into the bitumen film and analyse the effects...journal article 2022
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Wang, Dandan (author), Xu, Jinlan (author), Gao, Fei (author), Wang, C.C. (author), Gu, Renshu (author), Lin, Fei (author), Rabczuk, Timon (author), Xu, Gang (author)In this paper, a deep learning framework combined with isogeometric analysis (IGA for short) called IGA-Reuse-Net is proposed for efficient reuse of numerical simulation on a set of topology-consistent models. Compared with previous data-driven numerical simulation methods only for simple computational domains, our method can predict high...journal article 2022
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Taralli, E. (author), de Wit, M. (author), Gottardi, L. (author), Nagayoshi, K. (author), Visser, S. (author), Ridder, M.L. (author), Akamatsu, H. (author), Vaccaro, D. (author), Gao, J.R. (author)Large arrays of transition edge sensors (TESs) are the baseline for a number of future space observatories. For instance, the X-ray integral field unit (X-IFU) instrument on board the ATHENA space telescope will consist of ∼ 3000 TESs with high energy resolution (2eV at X-ray energies up to 7 keV). In this contribution we report on the...journal article 2022
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Gao, Y. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Expectations to derive value from open data are high. However, how value is created from open data is still largely unknown. Open data value is usually generated in constellation of actors in which each player has different capabilities and roles. To understand the open data value creation process, the business model canvas is introduced in this...journal article 2022
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Nagayoshi, K. (author), de Wit, M. (author), Taralli, E. (author), Visser, S. (author), Ridder, M. L. (author), Gottardi, L. (author), Akamatsu, H. (author), Vaccaro, D. (author), Gao, J.R. (author)We report measured T<sub>c</sub> of superconducting Ti/Au bilayer strips with a width W varying from 5 to 50 µm. The strips were fabricated based on a Ti/Au bilayer that consists of a 41-nm-thick Ti layer to which a 280-nm-thick Au layer was added. We find that the T<sub>c</sub> drops as W decreases and the declining trend almost perfectly...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Chao (author), Tan, Yiqiu (author), Gao, Y. (author), Fu, Yongkang (author), Li, Jilu (author), Li, Shuai (author), Zhou, Xingye (author)The service performances of asphalt pavement, especially rutting, will be inevitably affected by climate change. However, existing studies have generally focused on the rutting depth and rutting life, and thus became insufficient for comprehensively evaluating the influence of climate change on rutting over the service life. A resilience...journal article 2022
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Gao, Peng (author), Ye, G. (author), Huang, Haoliang (author), Qian, Zhiwei (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Wei, Jiangxiong (author), Yu, Qijun (author)A structure-based modelling framework was established to simulate the three-dimensional autogenous shrinkage of cement paste. A cement hydration model, HYMOSTRUC3D-E, was used to obtain the microstructures and ionic concentrations of the cement paste. A lattice fracture model based on the effective stress and effective modulus was used to...journal article 2022