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Lead Free Multilayer Piezoelectric Actuators by Economically New Approach (2020)
Journal Article
Hussain, F., Khesro, A., Lu, Z., Wang, G., & Wang, D. (2020). Lead Free Multilayer Piezoelectric Actuators by Economically New Approach. Frontiers in Materials, 7, Article 87. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2020.00087

The replacement of lead zirconate titanate ceramics (PZTs), with a lead-oxide (PbO)-free alternative is the subject of intense investigation worldwide. In this research, a cheap reliable methodology for the fabrication of multilayers (MLs) of lead-fr... Read More about Lead Free Multilayer Piezoelectric Actuators by Economically New Approach.

A Survey of Differential-Fed Microstrip Bandpass Filters: Recent Techniques and Challenges (2020)
Journal Article
Al-Yasir, Y. I. A., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Abdulkhaleq, A. M., Bakr, M. S., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2020). A Survey of Differential-Fed Microstrip Bandpass Filters: Recent Techniques and Challenges. Sensors, 20(8), Article 2356. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20082356

Differentially driven devices represent a highly promising research field for radio frequency (RF), microwave (MW), and millimeter-wave (mmWave) designers and engineers. Designs employing differential signals are essential elements in low-noise fourt... Read More about A Survey of Differential-Fed Microstrip Bandpass Filters: Recent Techniques and Challenges.

Direct Integration of Cold Sintered, Temperature-Stable Bi2Mo2O9-K2MoO4 Ceramics on Printed Circuit Boards for Satellite Navigation Antennas (2020)
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Wang, D., Siame, B., Zhang, S., Wang, G., Ju, X., Li, J., Lu, Z., Vardaxoglou, Y., Whittow, W., Cadman, D., Sun, S., Zhou, D., Song, K., & Reaney, I. M. (2020). Direct Integration of Cold Sintered, Temperature-Stable Bi2Mo2O9-K2MoO4 Ceramics on Printed Circuit Boards for Satellite Navigation Antennas. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 40(12), 4029-4034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2020.04.025

Bi2Mo2O9-K2MoO4 (BMO-KMO) composite ceramics with >95% theoretical density were densified by cold sintering at 150 °C. XRD, Raman, back-scattered SEM and EDX spectroscopy indicated that the BMO and KMO phases coexisted in all composites without inter... Read More about Direct Integration of Cold Sintered, Temperature-Stable Bi2Mo2O9-K2MoO4 Ceramics on Printed Circuit Boards for Satellite Navigation Antennas.

Key drivers for smart and sustainable practices in the built environment (2020)
Journal Article
Olawumi, T. O., & Chan, D. W. M. (2020). Key drivers for smart and sustainable practices in the built environment. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(6), 1257-1281. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-06-2019-0305

Purpose The construction industry has been evolving in recent years through the adoption of smart tools such as building information modeling to reduce the complexity in the construction process and optimize the project's goals. This paper aims to i... Read More about Key drivers for smart and sustainable practices in the built environment.

CochleaNet: A robust language-independent audio-visual model for real-time speech enhancement (2020)
Journal Article
Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Adeel, A., & Hussain, A. (2020). CochleaNet: A robust language-independent audio-visual model for real-time speech enhancement. Information Fusion, 63, 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.04.001

Noisy situations cause huge problems for the hearing-impaired, as hearing aids often make speech more audible but do not always restore intelligibility. In noisy settings, humans routinely exploit the audio-visual (AV) nature of speech to selectively... Read More about CochleaNet: A robust language-independent audio-visual model for real-time speech enhancement.

A tracking error–based fully probabilistic control for stochastic discrete-time systems with multiplicative noise (2020)
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Herzallah, R., & Zhou, Y. (2020). A tracking error–based fully probabilistic control for stochastic discrete-time systems with multiplicative noise. Journal of Vibration and Control, 26(23-24), 2329-2339. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077546320921608

This article proposes the exploitation of the Kullback–Leibler divergence to characterise the uncertainty of the tracking error for general stochastic systems without constraints of certain distributions. The general solution to the fully probabilist... Read More about A tracking error–based fully probabilistic control for stochastic discrete-time systems with multiplicative noise.

An analytical indoor experimental study on the effect of soiling on PV, focusing on dust properties and PV surface material (2020)
Journal Article
Chanchangi, Y. N., Ghosh, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2020). An analytical indoor experimental study on the effect of soiling on PV, focusing on dust properties and PV surface material. Solar Energy, 203, 46-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.03.089

Photovoltaic technology penetration is experiencing noticeable progress. However, its performance is significantly affected by soiling, which is influenced by several factors such as site characteristics, weather, tilt angle and surface orientation,... Read More about An analytical indoor experimental study on the effect of soiling on PV, focusing on dust properties and PV surface material.

Tools for Reduced Precision Computation: A Survey (2020)
Journal Article
Cherubin, S., & Agosta, G. (2020). Tools for Reduced Precision Computation: A Survey. ACM computing surveys, 53(2), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.1145/3381039

The use of reduced precision to improve performance metrics such as computation latency and power consumption is a common practice in the embedded systems field. This practice is emerging as a new trend in High Performance Computing (HPC), especially... Read More about Tools for Reduced Precision Computation: A Survey.

Renewable Energy Powered Plugged-In Hybrid Vehicle Charging System for Sustainable Transportation (2020)
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Devaraj, E., Joseph, P. K., Karuppa Raj Rajagopal, T., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Renewable Energy Powered Plugged-In Hybrid Vehicle Charging System for Sustainable Transportation. Energies, 13(8), Article 1944. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13081944

Energy transformation by power electronic converters is not feasible without the efficient use of renewable energy. The article tries to extend the use of renewable energy to PHEV battery charging. In PHEV, the battery is one of the major sources of... Read More about Renewable Energy Powered Plugged-In Hybrid Vehicle Charging System for Sustainable Transportation.

Robust Image Hashing Scheme using Laplacian Pyramids (2020)
Journal Article
Hamid, H., Ahmed, F., & Ahmad, J. (2020). Robust Image Hashing Scheme using Laplacian Pyramids. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 84, Article 106648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2020.106648

Due to tremendous growth in multimedia applications and services, people can easily create, distribute, broadcast and store information. The fact that multimedia content can be easily copied and tampered has motivated a large number of researchers to... Read More about Robust Image Hashing Scheme using Laplacian Pyramids.