We have enhanced the mobility of pentacene OTFTs using NH3-annealed SiO2 as gate dielectric and this annealing method is often applied in the semiconductor industry for inorganic transistors. The device has field-effect mobility higher than 0.5 cm2/Vs, with on/off current ratio larger than 106, and subthreshold slope less than 2.5 V per decade. When compared with the control sample, which uses N2-annealed SiO2, the mobility of the proposed pentacene OTFT increases by over 50%.
Pickup and delivery problems with time windows (PDP-TW) are challenging combinatorial optimization problems widely occurring in modern distribution and transportation industry. A previous proposal successfully adapted and combined the well-known push forward insertion heuristic (PFIH) with a new repairbased swap operator as a computationally reduced version of the Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) to efficiently solve the PDP-TWs. In this paper, we focus on a more systematic scheme to adapt the LNS in order to effectively solve PDP-TWs. Up to our knowledge, this work represents the first attempt to systematically adapt LNS for solving PDP-TWs. Besides, the empirical results obtained by our search proposals affirmed the attractive capability of the LNS approach to effectively reduce the total distance traveled in solving PDP-TWs, with similar results also achieved by the original LNS method in tackling the conventional vehicle routing problems with time windows. Lastly, our proposal of adapting LNS to solve hard combinatorial problems opens up many possible directions for future investigations.
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