This paper shows some preliminary results on the exploitation of COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) data for the characterization of agricultural fields. In particular, we analyze the impact of the planting row direction on to the radar backscattering response. We considered two different crop types, namely carrots and potatoes, and we grouped them in two subsets, the first including fields with row direction ...

Layered transition metal trichalcogenides (TMTCs) are a new class of anisotropic two-dimensional materials that exhibit quasi-1D behavior. This property stems from their unique highly anisotropic crystal structure where vastly different material properties can be attained from different crystal directions. Here, we employ density functional theory predictions, atomic force microscopy, and angle...

In this paper, we propose a new stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm, which incrementally approximates the full gradient in the linearized ADMM formulation. Besides having a low per-iteration complexity as existing stochastic ADMM algorithms, the proposed algorithm improves the convergence rate on convex problems from O ( 1 √ T ) to O ( 1 T ) , where T is the ...

Abstract Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) with fast‐charging capabilities have the potential to overcome “range anxiety” issue and drive wider adoption of electric vehicles. The U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium has set a goal fast charging, which requires charging 80% battery's state charge within 15 min. However, polarization effects under conditions can lead electrode structure degradation, elect...

Over the last decade, X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) and X-ray Resonant Magnetic Scattering (XRMS) have become important experimental techniques in the study of magnetic materials. In order to reduce systematic errors in these measurements, typical XMCD and XRMS experiments are carried out using magnetization switching, although there are many situations where polarization switching i...

The proposed theorem in this paper is indicative of a kind of duality in the propagation of waves in the dual media of and in the spherical structures. Independent of wave frequency, the number of layers, their thickness, and the type of polarization, this theorem holds true in case of any change in any of these conditions. Theorem: Consider a plane wave incident on a multilayered spheric...