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Power control strategy for preventing thermal failure of passively cooled automotive battery packs
Safety mechanism is required for an automotive battery pack to prevent thermal failure which could lead to catastrophic events. Passively cooled battery packs can prevent thermal failure by conducting adaptive...
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Open AccessIntense violet–blue emission and paramagnetism of nanocrystalline Gd3+ doped ZnO ceramics
Nanocrystalline Zn1-x Gd x O (x = 0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06, and 0.08) ceramics were synthesized by ball milling and subsequent solid-state reaction. Th...
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Effects of DME mixing on number density and size properties of soot particles in counterflow non-premixed ethylene flames
In order to investigate the effect of DME mixing on the number density and size of soot particles, DME was mixed in a counter flow non-premixed ethylene flame with mixture ratios of 5%, 14% and 30%. A laser ex...
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Structural, optical, and magnetic properties of single-crystalline Mn3O4 nanowires
We report a simple and effective method to synthesize single-crystalline Mn3O4 nanowires using solvothermal technique. These nanowires with diameter in the range 15–40 nm grow uniformly along {2 0 0} direction an...
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Major sources of hydrocarbon emissions in a premixed charge compression ignition engine
Although premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI) combustion engines are praised for potentially high efficiency and clean exhaust, experimental engines built to date emit more hydrocarbons (HCs) and carbon...
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Ferroelectric properties of Zn- and Ti-doped BiFeO3 thin films
BiFeO3 (BFO), Ti-doped BFO (BFTO), and Zn-doped BFO (BFZO) thin films were deposited on Pt(111)/Ti/SiO2/Si(100) substrates by using a pulsed laser deposition method. The effects of the substitution of Zn and Ti w...
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Experimental and numerical investigation of fuel mixing effects on soot structures in counterflow diffusion flames
Experimental and numerical analyses of laminar diffusion flames were performed to identify the effect of fuel mixing on soot formation in a counterflow burner. In this experiment, the volume fraction, number d...
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Ultrafast Magnetization Reversal Dynamics on a Micrometer-Scale Thin Film Element Studied by Time Domain Imaging
Picosecond time scale magnetization reversal dynamics in a 15nm thick Ni80Fe20 microstructure (10μm×2μm) is studied using time-resolved scanning Kerr microscopy. The time domain images reveal a striking change in...
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CMOS-based Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (ST–MRAM)
Recently it has been demonstrated that the vortex core magnetization can be switched by applying a short (<100 ps) magnetic field pulse. This is an important step towards utilizing the two stable states of the...
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Synthesis and characterization of CoFe2O4–Ba0.9Sr0.1TiO3 magnetoelectric composites with dielectric and magnetic properties
Magnetoelectric composites of CoFe2O4 ferrite (CFO) and 10 mole % strontium doped BaTiO3 (BSTO) were synthesized by the solid state reaction method. The presence of two phases in the composite (x)CoFe2O4+(1−x)Ba0...
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Effects of mixture stratification on HCCI combustion of DME in a rapid compression and expansion machine
Compression ignition of homogeneous charges in internal combustion (IC) engines is expected to offer high efficiency of DI diesel engines without high levels of NOx and particulate emissions. This study is int...
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Reaction characteristics of the diesel oxidation catalyst of particulate matters from the diffusion flame of a oiler burner
The objective of this experimental study is to investigate the characteristics of the size distribution and the number concentration of PM (particulate matters) emitted from the diffusion flame of a boiler bur...
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Improved cathodoluminescent characteristics of Y2O3:Eu3+ thin films by Li-do**
Y2O3:Eu3+ luminescent thin films have been studied as a potential red phosphor thin film for application in field emission display. Y2O3:Eu3+ and Li-doped Y2O3:Eu3+ films have been grown on Al2O3(0001) substrates...
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Ferroelectric phase transition of Nb-doped Bi3.25La0.75Ti3O12 ceramics
Bi3.25La0.75Ti3-yNbyO12 (y=0.0, 0.03, 0.09, 0.15, 0.21) were synthesized using the solid-state reaction method. The effects of Nb do** on ferroelectric properties were studied through dielectric and P-E measure...
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Time Domain Optical Imaging of Ferromagnetodynamics
Understanding the magnetic properties of small magnetic elements has become a major challenge in fundamental physics, involving both static and dynamic properties. The importance to technological applications ...
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Nonequilibrium Spin Dynamics in Laterally Defined Magnetic Structures
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Relationship between low frequency dielectric dispersion and ferroelectric phase transition in pulsed-laser-deposited Bi4-xLaxTi3O12 thin film
The frequency and temperature dependence of the complex dielectric constant of Bi4-xLaxTi3O12 (BLT, x=0.9) ferroelectric thin film was studied in the frequency range of 10-1∼106 Hz and the temperature range of 29...
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Morphology-dependent luminescence behavior of Y2-xGdxO3:Eu3+ thin-film phosphors grown by a laser ablation
Y2-xGdxO3:Eu3+ luminescent thin films have been grown on Al2O3(0001) substrates using pulsed laser deposition. Films grown under different deposition conditions have been characterized using microstructural and l...
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Impedance spectroscopy of KTiOPO4 single crystal in the temperature range –100 to 100 °C
The electrical properties of a single crystal of KTiOPO4 was studied by impedance spectroscopy methods in the temperature range –100 to 100 °C. The complex resistivity decreases rapidly with increasing temperatur...