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Shuai Zhang, Heng Wang, Yan Pan, Yun Shao, Tao Zhang, Wei Huang, Yang Li and Bingjie Xu
Dual-polarization division multiplexing (DPDM) is considered to be a potential method to boost the secure key rate (SKR) of the continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system. In this article, we propose a pilot alternately assisted local l...
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Dongye Lv, Hanbing Liu, Qiang Miao, Wensheng Wang, Guojin Tan, Chengwei Shi and Hanjun Li
The passivation behavior of steel reinforcements in concrete is significantly influenced by the environment, concrete pore solution, and the passive film formed on the steel surface. The present study used electrochemical methods to successfully characte...
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Tarek S. Abdou, Rola Saad and Salam K. Khamas
This paper presents a novel 28 GHz circularly polarized rectangular dielectric-resonator antenna (DRA) array for millimeter-wave (mmWave) off-body applications. A feed network incorporating cross slots was utilized in the rectangular DRA design to realiz...
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Zofia Szweda and Dominik Czachura
The consequences of the loss of the load-bearing capacity due to the corrosion of prestressing steel can be much more dangerous than in the case of reinforced concrete structures, since failure can occur quite rapidly and without warning. A very importan...
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Ameneh Mikaeeli, Alireza Keshavarz, Ali Baseri and Michal Pawlak
The transfer matrix approach is used to study the optical characteristics of thermal radiation in a one-dimensional photonic crystal (1DPC) with metamaterial. In this method, every layer within the multilayer structure is associated with its specific tra...
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Cong T. Nguyen, Ruslan D. Khlynov, Victoria A. Ryzhova, Alexey A. Gorbachev, Sergey N. Yarishev, Igor A. Konyakhin, Todor S. Djamiykov and Marin B. Marinov
Theoretical aspects of methods for calibrating Stokes polarimeters are considered. The prospects and opportunities for implementing the presented methods for calibrating portable polarization systems used in biology and medicine are determined. Based on ...
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Andualem Aklilu Tesfaye, Berhan Gessesse Awoke, Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida and Daniel E. Osgood
Field-scale prediction methods that use remote sensing are significant in many global projects; however, the existing methods have several limitations. In particular, the characteristics of smallholder systems pose a unique challenge in the development o...
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Rui Tang, Rui He, Sangmo Kim and Chung Wung Bark
Over the past decades, ferroelectric photovoltaic (FE-PV) systems, which use a homogenous ferroelectric material as a light-absorbing layer, have been studied using ferroelectric oxides. The PV activity of materials can be enhanced by adjusting the bandg...
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Javier Bedmar, Jorge de la Pezuela, Ainhoa Riquelme, Belén Torres and Joaquín Rams
The presence of defects like porosity and lack of fusion can negatively affect the properties of the materials manufactured by Selective Laser Melting (SLM). The optimization of the manufacturing conditions allows reducing the number of defects, but ther...
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Milton David Serna-Manrique, Daniel Escobar-Rincón, Santiago Ospina-Arroyave, Daniel Alejandro Pineda-Hernández, Yury Paola García-Gallego and Elisabeth Restrepo-Parra
In this work, thin films of TaN were synthesized on 304 steel substrates using the reactive DC sputtering technique from a tantalum target in a nitrogen/argon atmosphere. All synthesis parameters such as gas ratio, pressure, gas flow, and substrate dista...
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