Applied Physics Research Papers

Kinetic Photovoltaic Facade System Based on a Parametric Design for Application in Signal Box Buildings in Switzerland

This study aims to produce renewable energy by applying a solar-energy-harvesting architectural design using solar panels on the facade of a building. To install as many solar panels as possible on the building elevation, the Signal Box auf...

Photocatalytic degradation using Bi-doped SnS Quantum dots and phytotoxicity evaluation of treated effluents through seed germination

Quantum dots (QDs) are employed in photocatalytic applications because of their distinctive optical characteristics, such as high absorption coefficients and tunable bandgaps, enabling efficient visible light absorption and charge carrier g...

Manufacturing of Hierarchical (Nano-)Composite Structures: Numerical and Experimental Perspectives

Thermoset polymer nanocomposites have considerable potential to improve the functionality and optimise the performance of composite structures. Such a nanocomposite generally consists of a modified polymer matrix (continuous phase) containi...

Item analysis: basic concepts of physics students in geometric optics

The purpose of this study was to analyze students' items and abilities—the analysis for mapping test instruments and students' basic concepts regarding optics subjects before lectures are held. The test participants were 35 physics students...

Application of Convolutional Neural Network for Fault Diagnosis of Bearing Scratch of an Induction Motor

The demand for the condition monitoring of induction motors is increasing in various fields, such as industry, transportation, and daily life. Bearing faults are the most common faults, and many fault diagnosis methods have been proposed us...

Potential of Radioactive Isotopes Production in DEMO for Commercial Use

There is widespread use of nuclear radiation for medical imagery and treatments. Worldwide, almost 40 million treatments are performed per year. There are also applications of radiation sources in other commercial fields, e.g., for weld ins...

Enhanced diamagnetism by energetic tail electrons in a magnetized plasma

Measurement of an internal azimuthal plasma current in a collisionless low β plasma expanding in a magnetic nozzle is presented. The electric field is removed from the plasma ensuring a negligible electron E×B drift resulting in a purely di...

Embodied science and mixed reality: How gesture and motion capture affect physics education

Abstract A mixed design was created using text and game-like multimedia to instruct in the content of physics. The study assessed which variables predicted learning gains after a 1-h lesson on the electric field. The three manipulated varia...

Spacing Allocation Method for Vehicular Platoon: A Cooperative Game Theory Approach

Recently, spacing policies of the vehicular platoon have been widely developed to enhance safety, traffic efficiency, and fuel consumption. However, the integrated spacing policies aim to maximum overall benefit, and the distributed spacing...

Dielectric and impedance spectroscopic studies of three phase graphene/titania/poly(vinyl alcohol) nanocomposite films

Flexible dielectric polymer composites with high dielectric permittivity and low dielectric loss have many applications in different areas of electronic industry. In this paper, we propose synthesis of flexible dielectric materials with eff...

Day-Ahead Electric Load Forecasting for the Residential Building with a Small-Size Dataset Based on a Self-Organizing Map and a Stacking Ensemble Learning Method

Electric load forecasting for buildings is important as it assists building managers or system operators to plan energy usage and strategize accordingly. Recent increases in the adoption of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) have made b...

Semimetallization induced Hall anomaly in doped polymers

Hall anomaly related to deviations in Hall carrier concentrations have always been recognized as signs of charge incoherence in organic semiconductors, which lack ordered lattices. In this paper, we show that the Hall carrier concentration ...

Crystal structure of tris(tri-tert-butoxysilanethiolate)arsenic(III), As{SSi(OC4H9)3}3

Reliability Model Based Dynamic Multi-Level Trust Analysis

Trust assessment is of great significance to related issues such as privacy protection and rumor transmission in online social networks. At present, there are mainly two types of trust models: discrete type and continuous, type. Little work...

Research Frontiers in the Field of Agricultural Resources and the Environment

From the perspective of project and paper datasets, research frontier recognition in the field of agricultural resources and the environment using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic extraction model was studied. By combining the wi...

Electromagnetically Driven Robot for Multipurpose Applications

This paper presents a novel design of a continuum robot driven by electromagnets and springs, offering enhanced precision in multi-degree-of-freedom bending for diverse applications. Traditional continuum robots, while effective in navigati...

Advances in ultrashallow doping of silicon

Ultrashallow doping is required for both classical field-effect transistors in integrated circuits and revolutionary quantum devices in quantum computing. In this review, we give a brief overview on recent research advances in three technol...

Towards Efficient Function Optimisation with Quantum–Classical Hybrid Search

Finding the global minimum of a function with many local extrema is well known to be a challenging computational task. We propose a hybrid quantum–classical algorithm for this optimisation problem, based on a combination of Grover quantum s...

Relative multiplexing for minimising switching in linear-optical quantum computing

Many existing schemes for linear-optical quantum computing (LOQC) depend on multiplexing (MUX), which uses dynamic routing to enable near-deterministic gates and sources to be constructed using heralded, probabilistic primitives. MUXing acc...

The rank of contextuality

Quantum contextuality is one of the most recognized resources in quantum communication and computing scenarios. We provide a new quantifier of this resource, the rank of contextuality (RC). We define RC as the minimum number of non-contextu...