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Low‐Temperature Gold Deposition Improves CdTe Back Contacts

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Cd(Se,Te) samples are cooled during the evaporation of Au back contacts to thermally quench CdTe degradation. Reduced temperature during Au evaporation boosts PV efficiency, open‐circuit voltage, and fill factor. XPS associates these improvements with less chemical perturbation of the CdTe surface during metallization.
Christopher P. Muzzillo, Ryan Muzzio, Craig L. Perkins, B. Edward Sartor, Matthew O. Reese, Chungho Lee   +5 more
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Redox‐Confined Interfacial Polymerization Enables Mechanically Robust and Self‐Adhesive Nanofilms

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Redox‐confined polymerization of a simple thiol monomer at a water‐organic interface generates robust freestanding films with nanoscale thickness. The resulting disulfide‐crosslinked nanofilms combine high stiffness with intrinsic adhesion to soft substrates, enabling conformal contact with artificial skin without additional functionalization.
Luana Gazzato, Vivek Manish, Giorgio Speranza, Maria F. Pantano, Marco Frasconi   +4 more
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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang, Liao Wu, Shuai He, Zhao Sha, Yuwan Huang, Shuying Wu, Dewei Chu, Chun H. Wang, Shuhua Peng   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conformable Ferrimagnetic Tattoo Electrodes for Plant Electrophysiology

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The newly developed ferrimagnetic tattoo electrode is capable of measuring plant electrophysiological activity outside the Faraday cage. Its ability to adhere without damaging the plant tissue allows long‐term recordings. This premise opens new avenues for in‐field monitoring of plant health through electrophysiology.
Arianna Melis, Andrea Spanu, Fabrizio Antonio Viola, Abdul Manan Dar, Alexandra Sandéhn, Cyril Routier, Annalisa Bonfiglio, Eleni Stavrinidou   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Situ Two‐Dimensional Residual Stress Characterization of Thin Films

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
An integrated in situ curvature metrology platform combining speckle‐based curvature optical metrology (SCOM) with multi‐beam optical sensors (MOS) enables spatially resolved two‐dimensional curvature mapping of thick sputtered coatings. The SCOM technique provides excellent agreement with MOS while providing an extended measurable curvature range ...
Wai Jue Tan, Wadwan Singhapong, Arindam Majhi, Chris Bowen, Alexander J.G. Lunt, Hongchang Wang, Kawal Sawhney   +6 more
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Design of SiC MOSFET half-bridge driver and protection circuit

Dianzi Jishu Yingyong
In response to the challenges in designing silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET driving circuits, such as high difficulty in design, susceptibility to crosstalk, incomplete protective functions, and the issue of full domestic production, a half-bridge driving ...
Zheng Gaoming, Sun Feng, Li Huan, Hu Yating, Liu Jing, Liu Yujie   +5 more
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Programmable Pneumatic Actuator System for a Bioinspired Artificial Colon

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A modular soft robotic colon simulator driven by programmable pneumatic actuation is developed to mimic physiological and pathological‐like motility patterns of the large intestine. Finite element–guided design and distributed control enable anatomically realistic deformation for peristalsis, segmentation, and mass movements, supporting capsule ...
Andrew Bickerdike, Bo Tian, Xizheng Fang, Zepeng Wang, Yang Liu, Lucy Adams, Shyam Prasad   +6 more
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Low‐Pressure Plasma‐Based Wrinkling of PDMS and Machine Learning‐Driven Property Engineering

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Wrinkled surfaces are well‐suited for controlled surface deformations in the µm range. The key challenge is the relation between the resulting wrinkle features and the necessary process conditions. Machine learning techniques have solved the prediction and inverse design problems for various preparation conditions, opening a precisely controlled ...
Fabian Kopsch, Atmika Bhardwaj, Mirko Nitschke, Ilka Hermes, Andreas Fery, Anett Müller, Marco Werner, André Knapp   +7 more
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Regioselective π‐Extension of Helical PAHs: Tuning Energy Gaps and Excited‐State Dynamics Directed by Clar's Sextet Migration

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
Central and terminal ring fusions of per‐peri‐perbenzo[7]helicene (PB[7]H) yield novel helical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HPAHs). The migration of Clar's aromatic sextets governs the inner‐rim stiffness. This topology‐directed strategy bridges the discrete optical gaps of homologous series. Transition moment density (TMD) analysis visualizes the
Zhibo Liu, Zheng Zhang, Hikaru Sotome, Takashi Hirose   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Next-Generation Active-Clamp Forward-Flyback Converter With Integrated Planar Transformer for 4 kW LDC

IEEE Access
This paper proposes a single-module Active-Clamp Forward-Flyback (ACFF) converter for the next-generation low-voltage DC-DC converter (LDC) ensuring 4kW output power.
Gyeong-Hyun Kwon, Dong-In Lee, Seong-Wook Jeong, Han-Shin Youn   +3 more
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