In this paper, we perform two-layer high-throughput calculations. the first layer, which involves changing crystal structure and/or chemical composition, analyze selected III–V semiconductors, filled and unfilled skutterudites, as well rock salt layered chalcogenides. The second layer searches full Brillouin zone (BZ) for critical points within 1.5 eV (1 = 1.602176 × 10?19 J) of Fermi level cha...

Flapping-wing robotic insects are small, highly maneuverable flying robots inspired by biologicalinsects and useful for a wide range of tasks, including exploration, environmental monitoring, searchand rescue, and surveillance. Recently, robotic insects driven by piezoelectric actuators have achievedthe important goal of taking off with external power; however, fully autonomous operation requir...

This paper proposes a pulsed power generator which consists of two types of switched-capacitor booster modules. A doubling mode module employed to elevate the input voltage to a specified level and, constant mode module is used to increase the elevated voltage into the finally intended bipolar output voltage. Also, the proposed modular structure does not utilize any switches across the load. Ot...

The capability of multilevel input ring-TCM coding scheme for generating high-rate codes with improved symbol Hamming and squared Euclidean distances is demonstrated. The existence of uniform codes and the decoder complexity are also considered.