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Low cost and low thermal budget based spin-coated sol-gel Alumina was explored as a dielectric/passivation layer for GFET. Post thermal annealing, the crack was observed in sol-gel Alumina layer exactly above the graphene channel. The…
Despite the enormous progress achieved during the past decade, nanoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors still suffer from a limited electrical stability. This limited stability has been shown to result from the…
This paper investigates voltage stability in inverter-based power systems concerning fold and saddle-node bifurcations. An analytical expression is derived for the sensitivity of the stability margin using the normal vector to the…
The aim of a joint research and development project at the BME and HWU is to produce a cheap, reliable, low-power and CMOS-MEMS process compatible capacitive type relative humidity (RH) sensor that can be incorporated into a…
In the semiconductor manufacturing batch processes, each step is a complicated physiochemical batch process; generally it is difficult to perform measurements online or carry out the measurement for each run, and hence there will be delays…
Low cost, highly efficient, and stable solar cells demand low temperature processing, less stringent criteria on materials, and possibility of dynamic recovery from long term degradation: a combination of features unachievable from the…
Telegraphic noise is one of the most significant problems that arises when making sensitive measurements with lateral electrostatic devices. In this paper we demonstrate that a wafer which had only produced devices with significant…
In current generation digital phase locked loop (DPLL) architectures, techniques like adaptive loop bandwidth with loop order switching and switched phase-detection are employed to achieve better lock time and jitter performance. This work…
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), can yield high-value parts with unique geometries and features, substantially reducing costs and enhancing performance. However, the material properties…
We assess independently the impact of high-temperature substrate annealing and metal deposition conditions on the coherence of transmon qubits in the standard 2D circuit-QED architecture. We restrict our study to devices made with aluminum…
The yield of amorphous solids like metallic glasses under external stress was discussed asserting that it is related to the glass transition by increasing temperature, or that it can be understood using statistical theories of various…
The gain of SiPMs depends both on bias voltage and on temperature. For stable operations, both need to be kept constant. In an ILC calorimeter with millions of channels, this is a challenging task. It is, therefore, desirable to compensate…
The pedestal profile measurements in high triangularity JET plasmas show that with low fuelling the pedestal width decreases during the ELM cycle and with high fuelling it stays constant. In the low fuelling case the pedestal pressure…
We report on an optimized micro-machined thermal flow-rate sensor as part of an autonomous multi-parameter sensing device for water network monitoring. The sensor has been optimized under the following constraints: low power consumption and…
Large scale molecular dynamics simulations are performed to study the steady state yielding dynamics of a well established simple glass. In contrast to the supercooled state, where the shear stress, $\sigma$, tends to zero at vanishing…
This paper presents the experimental results on research of growth processes of GaAs layers on silicon substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. The formation of buffer Si layer in a single growth process has been found to significantly improve…
Graphene technology has made great strides since the material was isolated more than a decade ago. However, despite improvements in growth quality and numerous 'hero' devices, challenges of uniformity remain, restricting large-scale…
Some implants have approximately a lifetime of 15 years. The femoral stem, for example, should be made of 316L/316LN stainless steel. Fretting corrosion, friction under small displacements, should occur during human gait, due to repeated…
For the first time, thousands of RF MOSFETs were batch-fabricated on liquid-exfoliated MoS2 below 300 {\deg}C with nearly 100% yield. The large-scale fabrication with high yield allowed the average performance instead of the best…
BiFeO3 thin films are deposited on FTO coated glass substrates using a simple sol-gel deposition technique, limiting thickness about 70 nm and Ag/BiFeO3/FTO RRAM devices are prepared. The devices showed low-voltage bipolar switching with…