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Low power consumption resistance random access memory with Pt/InOx/TiN structure
(2013-09-02)
Yang, Jyun-Bao
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Chang, Ting-Chang
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Huang, Jheng-Jie
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Chen, Yu-Ting
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Tseng, Hsueh-Chih
In this study, the resistance switching characteristics of a resistive random access memory device with Pt/InOx/TiN structure is investigated. Unstable bipolar switching behavior is observed during the initial switching cycle, which then stabilizes after several switching cycles. Analyses indicate that the current conduction mechanism in the resistance state is dominated by Ohmic conduction. The decrease in electrical conductance can be attributed to the reduction of the cross-sectional area of the conduction path. Furthermore, the device exhibits low operation voltage and power consumption. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
Weyl-invariant Kaluza-Klein theory and the teleparallel equivalent of Weyl-invariant general relativity
(2013-09-03)
Chang, ChiaMing
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Kao, W. F.
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物理研究所
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Institute of Physics
A simple method is shown to demonstrate that the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity can be generalized to the Weyl-invariant models. We will also show explicitly that Weyl symmetry is preserved step by step throughout the 5D Kaluza-Klein dimensional-reduction process. As a result, the dimensional reduced model will be shown to be a theory with two scalar fields. When a symmetry-breaking potential is introduced, a strong constraint will effectively turn off one of the scalar fields. For heuristic reasons, the stability properties of the power-law solution associated with the resulting one-scalar-field model will be presented explicitly. In particular, all stable modes can be solved explicitly as functions of the free parameter associated with the symmetry-breaking potential.
Electrostatic discharge protection circuit
(2013-09-03)
Ker Ming-Dou
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Lin Chun-Yu
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Wang Chang-Tzu
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit, suitable for an input stage circuit including a first N channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor, is provided. The ESD protection circuit includes an P channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor and an impedance device, in which the PMOS transistor has a source coupled to a gate of the first NMOS transistor, and a drain coupled to a source of the first NMOS transistor, and the impedance device is coupled between a gate of the PMOS transistor and a first power rail to perform a initial-on ESD protection circuit. The ESD protection circuit formed by the PMOS transistor and the resistor is capable of increasing the turn-on speed of the ESD protection circuit and preventing the input stage circuit from a CDM ESD event.
Clinical spectrum of rhabdomyolysis presented to pediatric emergency department
(2013-09-03)
Chen, Chun-Yu
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Lin, Yan-Ren
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Zhao, Lu-Lu
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Yang, Wen-Chieh
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Chang, Yu-Jun
Background: Rhabdomyolysis is a potentially life-threatening syndrome that can develop from a variety of causes. The aim of the work is to analyze the clinical spectrum and to evaluate the prevalence of various etiologies in children, who present to the emergency department (ED) with rhabdomyolysis. Methods: During a 6-year study period, we retrospectively analyzed the medical charts of patients, aged 18 years or younger, with a definite diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis and serum creatinine phosphokinase (CK) levels greater than 1000IU/L. We analyzed the clinical spectrum and evaluated the potential risk factors of acute renal failure (ARF). Results: Thirty-seven patients (mean age = 10.2 +/- 5.5 years), including 26 males and 11 females, were enrolled in the study. Two of the most common presented symptoms in these 37 patients were muscle pain and muscle weakness (83.8% and 73%, respectively). Dark urine was reported in only 5.4% of the patients. The leading cause of rhabdomyolysis in the 0- to 9-year age group was presumed infection, and the leading cause in the 10- to 18-year age group was trauma and exercise. The incidence of ARF associated with rhabdomyolysis was 8.1 % and no child needed for renal replacement therapy (RRT). We did not identify any reliable predictors of ARF or need for RRT. Conclusions: The classic triad of symptoms of rhabdomyolysis includes myalgia, weakness and dark urine are not always presented in children. The cause of rhabdomyolysis in younger age is different from that of teenager group. However, the prognosis of rhabdomyolysis was good with appropriate management.
Load-adaptive bioelectric current stimulator
(2013-09-03)
Ker Ming-Dou
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Chen Wei-Ling
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Lin Chun-Yu
The disclosure relates to a load-adaptive bioelectrical current stimulator, which comprises a current output module, an adaptation module and a control module. The current output module generates a stimulus current to an electrode. The adaptation module detects the electrical status of the stimulus current passing through the electrode and generates a feedback signal to the control module. According to the feedback signal, the control module controls the current output module to stabilize the output status of the stimulus current adaptively. Thereby, the load-adaptive bioelectrical current stimulator can use the feedback control mechanism to regulate the value of the stimulus current to adapt to variation of load impedance.
SCMCRYS: Predicting Protein Crystallization Using an Ensemble Scoring Card Method with Estimating Propensity Scores of P-Collocated Amino Acid Pairs
(2013-09-03)
Charoenkwan, Phasit
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Shoombuatong, Watshara
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Lee, Hua-Chin
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Chaijaruwanich, Jeerayut
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Huang, Hui-Ling
Existing methods for predicting protein crystallization obtain high accuracy using various types of complemented features and complex ensemble classifiers, such as support vector machine (SVM) and Random Forest classifiers. It is desirable to develop a simple and easily interpretable prediction method with informative sequence features to provide insights into protein crystallization. This study proposes an ensemble method, SCMCRYS, to predict protein crystallization, for which each classifier is built by using a scoring card method (SCM) with estimating propensity scores of p-collocated amino acid (AA) pairs (p = 0 for a dipeptide). The SCM classifier determines the crystallization of a sequence according to a weighted-sum score. The weights are the composition of the p-collocated AA pairs, and the propensity scores of these AA pairs are estimated using a statistic with optimization approach. SCMCRYS predicts the crystallization using a simple voting method from a number of SCM classifiers. The experimental results show that the single SCM classifier utilizing dipeptide composition with accuracy of 73.90% is comparable to the best previously-developed SVM-based classifier, SVM_POLY (74.6%), and our proposed SVM-based classifier utilizing the same dipeptide composition (77.55%). The SCMCRYS method with accuracy of 76.1% is comparable to the state-of-the-art ensemble methods PPCpred (76.8%) and RFCRYS (80.0%), which used the SVM and Random Forest classifiers, respectively. This study also investigates mutagenesis analysis based on SCM and the result reveals the hypothesis that the mutagenesis of surface residues Ala and Cys has large and small probabilities of enhancing protein crystallizability considering the estimated scores of crystallizability and solubility, melting point, molecular weight and conformational entropy of amino acids in a generalized condition. The propensity scores of amino acids and dipeptides for estimating the protein crystallizability can aid biologists in designing mutation of surface residues to enhance protein crystallizability. The source code of SCMCRYS is available at http://iclab.life.nctu.edu.tw/SCMCRYS/.
Movement predicting method
(2013-09-03)
Lin Yi-Bing
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Huang-Fu Chien-Chun
A movement predicting method is disclosed. The method utilizes at least one phone communicating in and moving between neighboring cells of base stations to predict population movement in a prediction interval. Firstly, obtain the traffic volumes in the cells generated by the phone and the handover information generated by the phone moving between the cells in a day. Next, calculate the traffic volumes and the handover information to obtain a movement probability for the population moving between the cells and an average residence time that the population stays in the region of each cell in the different periods of the day. Finally, according to the data obtained, predict an appearance probability that the population appears in each region at the end point of the prediction interval.
SOLID STATE LIGHTING LUMINAIRE AND A FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF
(2013-09-05)
Wang Shing-Chung
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Kuo Hao-Chung
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Chen Hsin-Chu
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Chen Kuo-Ju
A solid state lighting luminaire, which comprises a solid state light source, an encapsulated structure, and a first phosphor, is provided. The encapsulated structure encapsulates the solid state light source and has an outside illuminating surface. The first phosphor is patterned to cover a portion of the outside illuminating surface for down-converting the illumination from the solid state light source.
Anisotropically expanding universe in massive gravity
(2013-09-05)
Do, Tuan Q.
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Kao, W. F.
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物理研究所
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Institute of Physics
We study the cosmological implications of a ghost-free nonlinear massive gravity theory with a cosmological constant. We find that the massive terms serve as an effective cosmological constant for a large class of metric spaces with a compatible fiducial metric associated with the massive terms. A specific solution is solved as an example for this model under the Bianchi type I space and a compatible Bianchi type I fiducial metric. A stability analysis indicates that this set of solutions tends to be stable. Nonetheless, the anisotropically expanding solution will, in general, turn unstable when an additional scalar field with negative kinetic energy is introduced.
LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE WITH GRADED COMPOSITION HOLE TUNNELING LAYER
(2013-09-05)
WANG Chao-Hsun
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Kuo Hao-Chung
A light emitting device with graded composition hole tunneling layer is provided. The device comprises a substrate and an n-type semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate, in which the n-type semiconductor layer comprises a first portion and a second portion. A graded composition hole tunneling layer is disposed on the first portion of the n-type semiconductor layer. An electron blocking layer is disposed on the graded composition hole tunneling layer. A p-type semiconductor layer is disposed on the electron blocking layer. A first electrode is disposed on the p-type semiconductor layer, and a second electrode is disposed on the second portion of the n-type semiconductor layer and is electrical insulated from the first portion of the n-type semiconductor. The graded composition hole tunneling layer is used as the quantum-well to improve the transport efficiency of the holes to increase the light emitting efficiency of the light emitting device.
交大e-News第147期
(2013-09-05)
Secretariat
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國立交通大學秘書室
Electrophoretic coating of amphiphilic chitosan colloids on regulating cellular behaviour
(2013-09-06)
Wang, Yen-Jen
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Lo, Teng-Yuan
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Wu, Chieh-Hsi
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Liu, Dean-Mo
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材料科學與工程學系
In this communication, we report a facile nanotopographical control over a stainless steel surface via an electrophoretic deposition of colloidal amphiphilic chitosan for preferential growth, proliferation or migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Atomic force microscopy revealed that the colloidal surface exhibited a deposition time-dependent nanotopographical evolution, wherein two different nanotopographic textures indexed by 'kurtosis' (R-kur) value were easily designed, which were termed as 'sharp' (i.e. high peak-to-valley texture) surface and 'flat' (i.e. low peak-to-valley texture) surface. Cellular behaviour of VSMCs and HUVECs on both surfaces demonstrated topographically dependent morphogenesis, adherent responses and biochemical properties in comparison with bare stainless steel. The formation of a biofunctionalized surface upon a facile colloidal chitosan deposition envisions the potential application towards numerous biomedical devices, and this is especially promising for cardiovascular stents wherein a new surface with optimized texture can be designed and is expected to create an advantageous environment to stimulate HUVEC growth for improved healing performance.
Automated Solution-Phase Synthesis of Oligosaccharides via Iterative Electrochemical Assembly of Thioglycosides
(2013-09-06)
Nokami, Toshiki
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Hayashi, Ryutaro
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Saigusa, Yoshihiro
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Shimizu, Akihiro
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Liu, Chih-Yueh
A new iterative one-pot sequential method for the solution-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides has been devised on the basis of the electrochemical oxidation of a propagating thioglycoside terminus to generate the corresponding triflate, followed by the reaction with a thioglycoside building block having a free hydroxyl group. A practical automated synthesizer was developed for the method and was effectively used for assembling up to six thioglycoside building blocks to synthesize partial structures of poly-beta-D-(1-6)-N-acetylglucosamine.
Toxicity and mechanisms of nitroaromatic compounds on algal photosynthesis reaction
(2013-09-08)
Yang, Chao-Fen
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Chen, Chung-Yuan
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環境工程研究所
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Institute of Environmental Engineering
Is surface doping or bulk doping more beneficial to the photocatalytic activity of TiO2?
(2013-09-08)
Chang, Sue-min
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Liu, Wei-szu
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環境工程研究所
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Institute of Environmental Engineering
Preparation of TiO2/stainless steel electrode for degradation of dye solution using photoelectrochemical oxidation process
(2013-09-08)
Yang, Sin-Ru
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Liu, Ching-Fang
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Huang, Chihpin
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Pan, Jill Rushing
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環境工程研究所
Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of pure aluminum with high temporal resolution
(2013-09-09)
Li, Yu-Tai
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Liu, Tze-An
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Chen, Chen-Wei
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Lee, Yu-Hsien
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Yabushita, Atsushi
We report on a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) system with a very high temporal resolution, using femtosecond and picosecond pulse laser excitation of pure aluminum (Al). By using a 140 fs Ti:Sapphire laser in an ultrafast optical Kerr gate (OKG), we demonstrate LIBS sampling with a sub-ps time resolution (0.8 +/- 0.08 ps) in a 14 ns window. The width of the gating window in this system was as narrow as 0.8 ps, owing to the inclusion of a carbon disulfide (CS2) cell, which has a fast response and a large nonlinear coefficient. Furthermore, when using a 100 ps pulsed Nd:YAG laser and a fast photomultiplier tube (PMT) we demonstrate a LIBS system with a nanosecond time resolution (2.20 +/- 0.08 ns) in a microsecond window. With this sort of temporal resolution, a non-continuous decay in the Al signal could be observed. After 50 ns decay of the first peak, the second peak at 230 ns is started to perform. Experimental results with such short temporal windows in LIBS, in both nanosecond and microsecond ranges, are important for fast temporal evolution measurements and observations of early continuum emission in materials. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
Design and demonstration of a colorless WDM-OFDMA PON system architecture achieving symmetric 20-Gb/s transmissions with residual interference compensation
(2013-09-09)
Chen, Hsing-Yu
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Yuang, Maria
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Tien, Po-Lung
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Hsu, Dar-Zu
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Wei, Chia-Chien
In this paper, we propose a two-tiered colorless WDM-OFDMA PON system architecture that draws strengths from each individual WDM and OFDM PON systems. Specifically, the two-tiered architecture enables a colorless transceiver to be shared by a group of ONUs, resulting in drastic reduction of the system cost. For achieving colorlessness via reusing downstream light sources, we discover the residual power of downstream signal unexpectedly springs back after transmissions, causing severe interference to the upstream signal, and thus limiting the data rate of the upstream signal. We devise a method of adopting a common dispersion compensation module at OLT to reduce the residual power over all wavelengths. Experimental results show that, with an improvement of upstream signal's SNR up to 10dB, the system successfully achieves 20-Gb/s bidirectional OFDM-signal transmissions on the same wavelength over a 20-km SMF. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
Pulfrich autostereo display with micro-prism array
(2013-09-09)
Chen, Chien-Yue
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Ke, Ming-Da
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Deng, Qing-Long
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Siao, Jhih-Kai
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光電系統研究所
A micro-prism film, with spectral characteristics, is attached on a display panel to show images appearing with + 10 degrees similar to + 50 degrees and -10 degrees similar to-50 degrees bright regions and with a + 10 degrees similar to-10 degrees dark region. When both eyes separately receive the bright region and the dark region of an image, interocular delay would appear to generate a stereo perception. With the optical simulation software, LightTools 7.3.0, to simulate the brightness change, the light with lower brightness appears on the 0 degrees region and the light with the highest brightness appears on the +/- 10 degrees region. The optimal viewing distance of 25cm could accurately deliver the image with shading parallax to both eyes. The actual measurement of brightness presents the shading distribution, achieving the condition of binocular retinal illumination, and the angle of visibility appears on the +/- 50 degrees region, causing interocular delay so that the viewer generates the stereo perception. (C)2013 Optical Society of America
An Acid-Base Controllable Hierarchical Nanostructure from a NIR-Absorbing Conjugated Polyrotaxane-Based Optical Molecular Switch
(2013-09-10)
Raju, Mandapati V. Ramakrishnam
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Raghunath, P.
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Lin, Ming-Chang
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Lin, Hong-Cheu
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材料科學與工程學系
To investigate the supramolecular interactions of the mechanically interlocked rotaxane pendants and conjugated polymer backbones, four analogous polymers were systematically synthesized by copolymerization of a 9-alkylidene-9H-fluorene monomer with various monomers, which contained a diketopyrrolopyrrole unit tethered with a dumbbell unit, a metalated [2]rotaxane, a demetalated orthogonal H-bonded [2]rotaxane, and a simple alkyl chain, to furnish P1, P2, P3, and P4, respectively. Prevailing H-1 NMR and UV-vis to NIR titration profiles indicated that the novel polyrotaxane P3 showed a sensitive and reversible acid base molecular switch capability via supramolecular interactions in contrast to the other polymers (P1, P2, and P4). Compared with the other polymers, P3 possessed a narrower bandgap, which was also confirmed by the computational study. Prominently, the monitoring of a controllable nanoself-assembly process of P3 was obtained by reversible acid base molecular switch approaches. The orthogonal H-bonded pendant [2]rotaxane unit and the steric demand of P3 judiciously allowed to morph into a hierarchical nanostructure via interconvertible H-bonds, anion-pi and pi-pi stackings, and hydrophobic interactions.