supported by Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province(YDZJ202401352ZYTS).
To address the issues of low accuracy and high false positive rate in traditional Otsu algorithm for defect detection on infrared images of wind turbine blades(WTB),this paper proposes a technique that combines morpho...
supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions,under grant agreement No.101059253,as part of the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme;It also received support from a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.Additional funding was provided by Laserlab-Europe(Proposal IDs:ULF-FORTH_002794 and ULF-FORTH_025264).We further gratefully acknowledge funding by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action under grant 16KN053050.The authors would also like to thank Mrs.Aleka Manousaki for SEM technical support.
Although optical microscopy is a widely used technique across various multidisciplinary fields for inspecting small-scale objects,surfaces or organisms,it faces a significant limitation:the lateral resolution of optic...
supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Shanxi Province(202102030201002);the Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team at the University of Ministry of Education of China(IRT_17R70);the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China(11434007);the 111 Project(D18001);the Fund for Shanxi“1331 Project”Key Subjects Construction.
Achieving a high sensitivity for practical applications has always been one of the main developmental directions for wearable flexible pressure sensors.This paper introduces a laser speckle grayscale lithography syste...
An inventory of topographic modifications is essential to addressing their impacts on hydrological and morphological processes in human-altered watersheds.However,such inventories are generally lacking.This study pres...
In recent years, the widespread adoption of parallel computing, especially in multi-core processors and high-performance computing environments, ushered in a new era of efficiency and speed. This trend was particularl...
funding from the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program(Project MEMS4.0,ERC-2016-ADG,grant agreement No.742685);the EU’s H2020 framework program for research and innovation under grant agreement n.101007417,NFFA-Europe Pilot Project.M.B.acknowledges the support of SNSF Eccellenza grant No.PCEGP2_194528;support from the QuantERA II Programme that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No 101017733;G.F.and M.P.received funding through the European research council H2020-UE Framework Programme for Research&Innovation(2014-2020);ERC-2017-CoG;InCell;Project number 773091,and the Swiss National Science Foundation through grant 200021_182562.
Grayscale structured surfaces with nanometer-scale features are used in a growing number of applications in optics and fluidics.Thermal scanning probe lithography achieves a lateral resolution below 10 nm and a vertic...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52174099);the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province(2021-KF-23-01);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University(2022ZZTS0510).
A comprehensive evaluation method is proposed to analyze dust pollution generated in the production process of mines.The method employs an optimized image-processing and deep learning framework to characterize the gra...
partially supported by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(Awards no.17207419,17209320,C7018-20G,and AoE/P-701/20);the Platform Technology Funding program,and the Seed Funding Program for Basic Research(202011159235 and 202010160046);the University of Hong Kong,and Shenzhen Government(Grant no.K20799112).
Functional nanostructures are exploited for a variety of cutting-edge fields including plasmonics,metasurfaces,and biosensors,just to name a few.Some applications require nanostructures with uniform feature sizes whil...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(91950114,12161141010);Zhangjiang Laboratory,Guangdong Provincial Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project(2017ZT07C071);Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen Innovation Commission(JCYJ20200109140808088);K.C.would like to thank the support from Hong Kong Research Grant Council AoE/P-02/12 and 12303019.
Structural color from artificial structures,due to its environmental friendliness and excellent durability,represents a route for color printing applications.Among various physical mechanisms,the Fabry–Perot(F–P)cav...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2017YFA0403801,2017YFA0206004,2018YFC1200204);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.81430087,11775297,U1932205).
Doped elements in alloys significantly impact their performance.Conventional methods usually sputter the surface material of the sample,or their performance is limited to the surface of alloys owing to their poor pene...