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Room-Temperature Sputtered SnO2 as Robust Electron Transport Layer for Air-Stable and Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells on Rigid and Flexible Substrates.
Extraordinary photovoltaic performance and intriguing optoelectronic properties of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have aroused enormous interest from both academic research and photovoltaic (PV) industry. In order to bring PSC technology from laboratory to market, material stability, device flexibility, and scalability are important issues to address for vast production. Nevertheless, PSCs are still primarily prepared by solution methods which limit film scalability, while high-temperature processing of metal oxide electron transport layer (ETL) makes PSCs costly and incompatible with flexible substrates. Here, we demonstrate rarely-reported room-temperature radio frequency (RF) sputtered SnO2 as a promising ETL with suitable band structure, high transmittance, and excellent stability to replace its solution-processed counterpart. Power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 12.82% and 5.88% have been achieved on rigid glass substrate and flexible PEN substrate respectively. The former device retained 93% of its initial PCE after 192-hour exposure in dry air while the latter device maintained over 90% of its initial PCE after 100 consecutive bending cycles. The result is a solid stepping stone toward future PSC all-vapor-deposition fabrication which is being widely used in the PV industry now
Specific Beamforming for Multi-UAV Networks: A Dual Identity-based ISAC Approach
Beam alignment is essential to compensate for the high path loss in the
millimeter-wave (mmWave) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network. The integrated
sensing and communication (ISAC) technology has been envisioned as a promising
solution to enable efficient beam alignment in the dynamic UAV network.
However, since the digital identity (D-ID) is not contained in the reflected
echoes, the conventional ISAC solution has to either periodically feed back the
D-ID to distinguish beams for multi-UAVs or suffer the beam errors induced by
the separation of D-ID and physical identity (P-ID). This paper presents a
novel dual identity association (DIA)-based ISAC approach, the first solution
that enables specific, fast, and accurate beamforming towards multiple UAVs. In
particular, the P-IDs extracted from echo signals are distinguished dynamically
by calculating the feature similarity according to their prevalence, and thus
the DIA is accurately achieved. We also present the extended Kalman filtering
scheme to track and predict P-IDs, and the specific beam is thereby effectively
aligned toward the intended UAVs in dynamic networks. Numerical results show
that the proposed DIA-based ISAC solution significantly outperforms the
conventional methods in association accuracy and communication performance.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
Negative Magnetoresistance in Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2
A large negative magnetoresistance is anticipated in topological semimetals
in the parallel magnetic and electric field configuration as a consequence of
the nontrivial topological properties. The negative magnetoresistance is
believed to demonstrate the chiral anomaly, a long-sought high-energy physics
effect, in solid-state systems. Recent experiments reveal that Cd3As2, a Dirac
topological semimetal, has the record-high mobility and exhibits positive
linear magnetoresistance in the orthogonal magnetic and electric field
configuration. However, the negative magnetoresistance in the parallel magnetic
and electric field configuration remains unveiled. Here, we report the
observation of the negative magnetoresistance in Cd3As2 microribbons in the
parallel magnetic and electric field configuration as large as 66% at 50 K and
even visible at room temperatures. The observed negative magnetoresistance is
sensitive to the angle between magnetic and electrical field, robust against
temperature, and dependent on the carrier density. We have found that carrier
densities of our Cd3As2 samples obey an Arrhenius's law, decreasing from
3.0x10^17 cm^-3 at 300 K to 2.2x10^16 cm^-3 below 50 K. The low carrier
densities result in the large values of the negative magnetoresistance. We
therefore attribute the observed negative magnetoresistance to the chiral
anomaly. Furthermore, in the perpendicular magnetic and electric field
configuration a positive non-saturating linear magnetoresistance up to 1670% at
14 T and 2 K is also observed. This work demonstrates potential applications of
topological semimetals in magnetic devices
The possible role of ribosomal protein S6 kinase 4 in the senescence of endothelial progenitor cells in diabetes mellitus
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The decrease and dysfunction of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) has been assumed as an important cause/consequence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and its complications, in which the senescence of EPCs induced by hyperglycemia may play an immensurable role. However, the mechanisms of EPCs senescence has not been fully investigated. Recently, ribosomal protein S6 kinase 4 (RSK4), a member of serine/threomine (Ser/Thr) kinase family and p53-related gene, is reported to regulate the replicative and stress-induced senescence of different cells.</p> <p>Presentation of the hypothesis</p> <p>These above lead to consideration of an evidence-based hypothesis that RSK4 may serve as a mediator of EPCs senescence in DM.</p> <p>Testing the hypothesis</p> <p>EPCs of healthy subjects and DM patients are isolated from peripheral blood and incubated with high glucose (HG). Then, the EPCs senescence would be detected by senescence associated β-galactosides (SA-β-gal) staining. Meanwhile, the RSK4 expression is assessed by RT-PCR and western blot. Moreover, overexpressing or RNA interfering of RSK4 in EPCs to investigate the relationship between RSK4 expression and the senescence of EPCs are necessary to substantiate this hypothesis. Also, studies on possible upstream and downstream factors of RSK4 would be explored to reveal the RSK4-mediated senescence pathway in EPCs.</p> <p>Implications of the hypothesis</p> <p>If proved, this hypothesis will provide another mediator of EPCs senescence, and may establish a novel pathogenesis for DM and further benefit to the management of DM.</p
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