In this work, a thin-film
transistor gas sensor based on the p-N heterojunction is fabricated
by stacking chemical vapor deposition-grown tungsten disulfide (WS2) with a sputtered indium–gallium–zinc-oxide
(IGZO) film. To the best of our knowledge, the present device has
the best NO2 gas sensor response compared to all the gas
sensors based on transition-metal dichalcogenide materials. The gas-sensing
response is investigated under different NO2 concentrations,
adopting heterojunction device mode and transistor mode. High sensing
response is obtained of p-N diode in the range of 1–300 ppm
with values of 230% for 5 ppm and 18 170% for 300 ppm. On the
transistor mode, the gas-sensing response can be modulated by the
gate bias, and the transistor shows an ultrahigh response after exposure
to NO2, with sensitivity values of 6820% for 5 ppm and
499 400% for 300 ppm. Interestingly, the transistor has a typical
ambipolar behavior under dry air, while the transistor becomes p-type
as the amount of NO2 increases. The assembly of these results
demonstrates that the WS2/IGZO device is a promising platform
for the NO2-gas detection, and its gas-modulated transistor
properties show a potential application in tunable engineering for
two-dimensional material heterojunction-based transistor device.
2D- and nanostructured metal sulfide materials promise to advance several gas sensing applications due to the abundant choice of materials with easily tunable electronic, optical, physical, and chemical properties. Of...
The IES standard TM-21-11 provides a guideline for lifetime prediction of LED devices. As it uses average normalized lumen maintenance data and performs non-linear regression for lifetime modeling, it cannot capture dynamic and random variation of the degradation process of LED devices. In addition, this method cannot capture the failure distribution, although it is much more relevant in reliability analysis. Furthermore, the TM-21-11 only considers lumen maintenance for lifetime prediction. Color shift, as another important performance characteristic of LED devices, may also render significant degradation during service life, even though the lumen maintenance has not reached the critical threshold. In this study, a modified Wiener process has been employed for the modeling of the degradation of LED devices. By using this method, dynamic and random variations, as well as the non-linear degradation behavior of LED devices, can be easily accounted for. With a mild assumption, the parameter estimation accuracy has been improved by including more information into the likelihood function while neglecting the dependency between the random variables. As a consequence, the mean time to failure (MTTF) has been obtained and shows comparable result with IES TM-21-11 predictions, indicating the feasibility of the proposed method. Finally, the cumulative failure distribution was presented corresponding to different combinations of lumen maintenance and color shift. The results demonstrate that a joint failure distribution of LED devices could be modeled by simply considering their lumen maintenance and color shift as two independent variables.
The heat transfer characteristics of China no. 3 kerosene were investigated experimentally and analytically under conditions relevant to a regenerative cooling system for scramjet applications. A test facility developed for the present study can handle kerosene in a temperature range of 300-1000 K, a pressure range of 2.6-5 MPa, and a mass flow rate range of 10-100 g=s. In addition, the test section was uniquely designed such that both the wall temperature and the bulk fuel temperature were measured at the same location along the flowpath. The measured temperature distributions were then used to analytically deduce the local heat transfer characteristics. A 10-component kerosene surrogate was proposed and employed to calculate the fuel thermodynamic and transport properties that were required in the heat transfer analysis. Results revealed drastic changes in the fuel flow properties and heat transfer characteristics when kerosene approached its critical state. Convective heat transfer enhancement was also found as kerosene became supercritical. The heat transfer correlation in the relatively low-fuel-temperature region yielded a similar result to other commonly used jet fuels, such as JP-7 and JP-8, at compressed liquid states. In the high-fuel-temperature region, near and beyond the critical temperature, heat transfer enhancement was observed; hence, the associated correlation showed a more significant Reynolds number dependency.
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