The impact of knowledge competences on business performance: Moderation effect of 3D printing implementation

3D Printing allows companies to have full-control over production processes, resulting in overall business performance improvements. However, this relationship closely correlated with knowledge management competences (KMCs), which are associated with project complexity. This research explores a three-way moderation effect among 3D printing implementation, KMCs, project complexity, and business performance

Invited; Vertical channel-all-around IGZO FET for low latency, high-density 2T0C 3D DRAM application

DRAM devices are an essential component of most digital devices and they play a crucial role in the development of cloud computing, edge computing, Internet-of-Things and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, DRAM scaling is now facing challenges largely due to the mismatch of the reduced storage capacitance and increasing off-current. IGZO based field-effect transistors (IGZO FETs) are very well known for their very low IOFF (\u3c10-22A/µm), representing a solution for reducing the DRAM cell leakage. The demonstration of BEOLcompatible long-retention 2T0C DRAM cell based on the IGZO-FETs shows a very promising approach to overcome the mismatch challenge of the traditional 1T1C DRAM cell Please click Download on the upper right corner to see the full abstract

A new design methodology of highly reliable TFT based integrated circuits in display applications

Thin-film transistors (TFTs) technology is currently the dominant technology for pixel switching in display application. The new consumer electronics requires higher resolution and brightness, lower power consumption, multi-functional with new features such as flexible and foldable display. This drives TFT devices to deliver more complex functions. Owing to a sustained, enormous effort in TFT research and development and a continuous capital investment from the display industry around the world for the past three decades, the performance of TFT has not only surpassed the display requirements in most areas, but also go beyond the simply switch to more complex digital and analogue integrated circuits, for example, the flexible and narrow bezel displays integrated row drivers with TFT technology next to the pixel array. Such integrated circuits comprise thousands of switches operating together, requires an accurate analysis during design. In the recent years, new display technologies, such as organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and light-emitting diode (LED) displays have been emerging and become commercial reality due to certain advantages like self-luminous, high contrast, and etc. However, the OLED device has relative shorted lifetime and the current driving TFTs typically suffer from the electrical instability issue under high temperature and long-time stress condition. Thus, the reliability concerns in display have generated a considerable number of experimental studies and require careful analysis for the design of its pixel and integrated drivers. Particularly, individual TFTs are exposed to various stress condition in display operation with different degradation such as threshold voltage shift (ΔVth) or mobility (μ) decreasing result in a failure of display operation, given that the performance of an aging TFT might deviate from expectation of original design, and moreover, it might influence its neighboring TFTs. Traditional design method considering device performance variation and device-level aging approach of ΔVth and μ may not appropriate given that the traditional design of display pixel and driver circuit did not consider the evolutionary effects to each TFTs and different aging rate under various stress condition. Please click Additional Files below to see the full abstract

Benzo[a]fluoren-11-one

The mol­ecule of the title compound, C17H10O, is nearly planar, the largest deviation from the mean plane being 0.06 Å. The crystal structure is governed by π–π inter­actions, with centroid–centroid distances ranging from .559 to 3.730 Å

Capturing a Metastable Silver(I) Compound of Pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxylic Acid

A metastable 3D supramolecular compound [Ag(NH3)(2)]-[Ag-3(pzdca)(2)(NH3)(4)] (H(2)pzdca = pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid) (1) has been synthesized and characterized crystallographically. This study offers important information to in-depth understanding of the self-assembly process involving Ag-1 under ammoniacal conditions and conforms that [Ag(NH3)(2)](+)-containing compounds are the intermediates during synthesis of some Ag-1 coordination polymers.National Natural Science Foundation of China [20721001]; MSTC [2007CB815301]; National Science Fund of China for Fostering Talents in Basic Science [J0630429

The Origin of the Prompt Emission for Short GRB 170817A: Photosphere Emission or Synchrotron Emission?

The first gravitational-wave event from the merger of a binary neutron star system (GW170817) was detected recently. The associated short gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) has a low isotropic luminosity (~1047 erg s−1) and a peak energy E p ~ 145 keV during the initial main emission between −0.3 and 0.4 s. The origin of this short GRB is still under debate, but a plausible interpretation is that it is due to the off-axis emission from a structured jet. We consider two possibilities. First, since the best-fit spectral model for the main pulse of GRB 170817A is a cutoff power law with a hard low-energy photon index ($\alpha =-{0.62}_{-0.54}^{+0.49}$), we consider an off-axis photosphere model. We develop a theory of photosphere emission in a structured jet and find that such a model can reproduce a low-energy photon index that is softer than a blackbody through enhancing high-latitude emission. The model can naturally account for the observed spectrum. The best-fit Lorentz factor along the line of sight is ~20, which demands that there is a significant delay between the merger and jet launching. Alternatively, we consider that the emission is produced via synchrotron radiation in an optically thin region in an expanding jet with decreasing magnetic fields. This model does not require a delay of jet launching but demands a larger bulk Lorentz factor along the line of sight. We perform Markov Chain Monte Carlo fitting to the data within the framework of both models and obtain good fitting results in both cases

Deadzone compensation control based on detection of micro flow rate in pilot stage of proportional directional valve

The pilot operated proportional directional valves (POPDVs) with a flow rate ranging from 100 to 1000 L/min are widely used in electro-hydraulic systems (EHSs). The deadzone of the pilot stage valve and its control compensation could significantly affect the position control performance for the main stage valve that could directly affect dynamics of EHSs In this paper, it is concluded that micro flow rates exist at the intermediate position of the valve based on the analysis of the continuity equation of the flow in the control chamber of the pilot stage. The micro flow rate is helpful to eliminate the discontinuity and unsmooth domain in the previous inverse deadzone compensation function. An improved deadzone detection method is proposed to calibrate the pilot valve flow characteristics which include the micro flow rate. This new method avoids the threshold selection of the main valve spool displacement which affects the detected deadzone values. Its detection processes are realized based on the pilot flow rate characterized by the speed of the main valve spool and the pilot valve displacement characterized by the solenoid current. The deadzone compensation control strategy based on the improved deadzone detection method is also designed. The experimental results using the steady-state position tracking and sinusoidal position tracking methods are verified. It is concluded that the tracking accuracy of the main valve spool position is effectively improved with this control strategy