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Imperfection-enabled memristive switching in van der Waals materials
Memristive devices can offer dynamic behaviour, analogue programmability, and scaling and integration capabilities. As a result, they are of potential use in the development of information processing and stora...
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Transaction or Membership? Impact on On-Demand Delivery Service Platforms’ Profits, Consumer Surplus, and Labor Welfare
In recent years, two pricing policies are commonly adopted by on-demand delivery service platforms (e.g., Meituan PaoTui and Costco) that provide delivery services to heterogeneous customers via self-schedulin...
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Highly sensitive, scalable, and rapid SARS-CoV-2 biosensor based on In2O3 nanoribbon transistors and phosphatase
Develo** convenient and accurate SARS-CoV-2 antigen test and serology test is crucial in curbing the global COVID-19 pandemic. In this work, we report an improved indium oxide (In2O3) nanoribbon field-effect tr...
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Service-Cost-Sharing Contract Design for a Dual-Channel Supply Chain with Free Riding
This paper considers a dual channel supply chain, where a manufacturer sells a single product through his/her online channel and a traditional retailer, who provides consumers with pre-sale services. The manuf...
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Open AccessThe anterior scleral thickness in eyes with primary open-angle glaucoma
To investigate the anterior scleral thickness (AST) and its associations with Schlemm’s canal (SC) area, trabecular meshwork (TM) thickness and length, and scleral spur (SS) length in healthy and primary open-...
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How to Implement the Wholesale Price Contract: Considering Competition between Supply Chains
In this paper, we develop the price competition model of two supply chains, in which each supply chain includes one core manufacturer and one retailer, respectively. The manufacturer in each supply chain sells...
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Air-stable n-type transistors based on assembled aligned carbon nanotube arrays and their application in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor electronics
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are ideal candidates for beyond-silicon nano-electronics because of their high mobility and low-cost processing. Recently, assembled massively aligned CNTs have emerged as an important ...
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Open AccessMitochondrial genome of the critically endangered Baer’s Pochard, Aythya baeri, and its phylogenetic relationship with other Anatidae species
Historically, the diving duck, Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri) was widely distributed in East and South Asia, but according to a recent estimate, its global population is now less than 1000 individuals. To date, th...
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Open AccessGate-tunable plasmons in mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures
Surface plasmons, collective electromagnetic excitations coupled to conduction electron oscillations, enable the manipulation of light–matter interactions at the nanoscale. Plasmon dispersion of metallic struc...
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Gold-vapor-assisted chemical vapor deposition of aligned monolayer WSe2 with large domain size and fast growth rate
Orientation-controlled growth of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) may enable many new electronic and optical applications. However, previous studies reporting aligned growth of WSe2 u...
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Nonlinear Luttinger liquid plasmons in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes
Interacting electrons confined in one dimension are generally described by the Luttinger liquid formalism, where the low-energy electronic dispersion is assumed to be linear and the resulting plasmonic excitat...
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Optimal Pricing Strategies for a Manufacturer and a Value-Adding Retailer in a Dual-Channel Environment
In this paper, we study a supply chain that consists of a manufacturer and a value-adding retailer that sell a product to customers through dual channels, i.e. a traditional channel (TC) and an online channel ...
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Open AccessRed-phosphorus-impregnated carbon nanofibers for sodium-ion batteries and liquefaction of red phosphorus
Red phosphorus offers a high theoretical sodium capacity and has been considered as a candidate anode for sodium-ion batteries. Similar to silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries, the electrochemical performa...
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Platform Competition for Advertisers and Viewers in Media Markets with Endogenous Content and Advertising
In this paper, we investigate two competing pay-tv platforms or free-to-air media platforms that consist of two groups of agents: viewers and advertisers. The pay-tv platforms can receive revenues from chargin...
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A Method of Extracting and Recognizing Discharge Current of Bird Hazard Hidden Danger Based on Wavelet Transform
Bird damage is one of the important reasons that affect the safe and stable operation of overhead transmission lines. The main cause of bird-caused hidden-danger discharge is the pollution flashover of insulat...
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Wafer-scalable, aligned carbon nanotube transistors operating at frequencies of over 100 GHz
Wireless device technology operating in the millimetre-wave regime (30 to 300 GHz) increasingly needs to offer both high performance and a high level of integration with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve the growth and drought tolerance of Zenia insignis seedlings under drought stress
Drought is one of the most critical limiting environmental factors for plant survival and restoration in areas of rocky desertification in southwestern China. Here, we aimed to understand how arbuscular mycorr...
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Pricing and Service Strategies for Two-sided Platforms
Nowadays, more and more transactions or interactions like online dating and shop** are completed on two-sided platforms involving two groups of agents. On these two-sided platforms, there often exist cross-n...
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Quasi-two-dimensional β-Ga2O3 field effect transistors with large drain current density and low contact resistance via controlled formation of interfacial oxygen vacancies
Quasi-two-dimensional (2D) β-Ga2O3 is a rediscovered metal-oxide semiconductor with an ultra-wide bandgap of 4.6–4.9 eV. It has been reported to be a promising material for next-generation power and radio frequen...
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Review of Electronics Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are extremely promising materials for building next-generation electronics due to their unique physical and electronic properties. In this article, we will review the res...
