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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"TMDs"”.
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An Empirical Examination of Multinational Corporations'(MNCs)Integration of Tourism Market Development Strategies(TMDS) With African Host Countries' Needs and Expectations
This exploratory study examined the different tourism market development strategies that tourism Multinational Corporations (MNCs) implement in their operations in African host countries. It empirically investigated the existence of any relationships between tourism MNCs’ market development …
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The use of tuned mass dampers to control annoying floor vibrations
… sometimes a viable solution. Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) have been used primarily to control only one or two modes of vibration of a floor. Experimental research was performed using prototype TMDs to control one, two, and three modes of vibration of various floors. Results from this research are …
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Developing transition metal dichalcogenide alloys for applications to integrated photonics
… potential of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as phase-change materials for photonics integrated circuits (PIC). We measure the near-infrared (NIR) optical properties of bulk crystal telluride TMDs and sulfide TMDs. We find that telluride TMDs have large optical density and large optical …
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Membrane protein biosynthesis at the endoplasmic reticulum
… of IMPs is one or more transmembrane domains (TMDs). TMDs are typically stretches of predominately hydrophobic amino acids that span the lipid bilayer of biological membranes as an alpha helix. TMDs are remarkably diverse in terms of their topological and biophysical properties. In order to …
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Optical properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
… thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), which are mostly semiconductors with a wide range of band gaps, has diversified the family of two-dimensional materials and boosted the research on their potential applications in the fields of logic nanoelectronics and high-performance …
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Interfaces between two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors and oxide dielectrics for transistors
… for field effect transistors (FETs). 2D TMDs, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂), are promising for sub-10 nm channel FETs because they retain their exceptional electronic properties even at a thickness of 0.7nm. However, suitable gate dielectrics are required for making good FETs with …
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Phase Engineering and Optical Property Tuning of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
… transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) using optical techniques. The thesis begins with an introduction to the context of the research (Chapter 1), followed by an overview to the key materials and theoretical concepts in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3 we introduce in the key experimental …
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Two-dimensional Electronics: From Material Synthesis to Device Applications
… semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are considered as promising candidates for future device applications due to their unique atomic thickness and outstanding properties. The study on graphene and TMDs has demonstrated great potential to further push the scaling of devices into …
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NANOPATTERNING OF FREE-STANDING VAN DER WAALS HETEROSTRUCTURES USING CHARGED PARTICLES
… (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) enables one-dimensional structures with tunable band structures, offering new opportunities in nanophotonics and optoelectronics. However, achieving such confinement with high spatial and depth resolution in stacked van der Waals …
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Biogenesis of Multipass Membrane Proteins
… chemical perturbations showed that the first two TMDs of most multipass proteins with a cytosol-facing N-terminus are inserted by a Sec61-independent mechanism. Instead, this insertion relies, at least in part, on the ER membrane complex (EMC), a TMD insertase recently appreciated to be a member …
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THE APPLICATION OF RADIOFREQUENCY WAVES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ORAL MAXILLOFACIAL PAIN
Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) represent a common and complex clinical condition, defined by the American Academy of Orofacial Pain as a group of muscular and neuromuscular disorders which affect the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and those structures connected to it. These disorders involve …
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Control of Excitons and Quantum Emitters in Two-Dimensional Materials
… semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In spite of the unique characteristics of these emitters, they suffer from large inhomogeneous distribution because of their proximity to the surface and external environment, limiting practical applications and identification of their …
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Uncovering the biogenesis pathways for human mitochondrial alpha-helical outer membrane proteins using genome-wide approaches
… structure of their transmembrane domains (TMDs), as two classes – beta-barrel proteins, evolutionarily derived from the outer membranes of gram-negative bacteria, and alpha-helical proteins, an evolutionarily more recent class. Beta-barrel proteins are first translocated into the …
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Layer-by-Layer Single-crystal Two-dimensional Material Growth by Geometric Confinement
… (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and their heterostructures have been widely studied for next-generation electronics. However, the following critical challenges have hindered them from their commercialization: 1) precise layer control during their growth, 2) maintaining …
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Mechanisms of multipass membrane protein biogenesis
… TMD, most feature many biophysically unique TMDs. Productive bio- genesis of most “multipass” membrane proteins requires insertion in a defined topology as well as packing of their TMDs into a helical bundle, often through inter- actions between polar residues unstably located in the …
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Coherent light-matter interactions in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides
… in bulk forms. Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as MoS 2, WS2 and WSe2 are prime examples of such semiconductors. They appear in layered structure that can be reduced to a stable single layer where remarkable electronic properties can emerge. Monolayer TMDs have a pair of electronic …
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Guided etching and deposition of transition metal dichalcogenides
… (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with engineered nanopores have been suggested as a promising materials system in membrane and catalysis applications in both the energy and environment fields. Because of its atomic thinness, 2DTMDs are promising candidates for osmosis energy …
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Investigation of the structure and elemental composition of 2D Interfaces in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
… properties. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are semiconductor materials from this family that show promise to be the next generation of nanoelectronics as well as give possibility to improve energy or informational storage. However, for maintaining high efficiency, the structure of TMDs …
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