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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"domain engineering"”.
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Fibronectin domain engineering
… in a breadth of applications. The tenth type III domain of human fibronectin provides a small, stable, single-domain, cysteine-free protein scaffold upon which molecular recognition capability can be engineered. In the current work, we provide substantial improvements in each phase of protein …
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Domain engineering techniques and devices in lithium niobate
… investigations directed at novel approaches to domain engineering single-crystal congruent lithium niobate at the micron/sub-micron scale for practical device applications. <br/><br/>Experimental etch-rate measurements from a parametric study of etch-rates and etch-quality of single-crystal …
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Light-induced ferroelectric domain engineering in lithium niobate & lithium tantalate
The influence of illumination on ferroelectric domain engineering in lithium niobate and lithium tantalate is investigated. The conventional method of domain inversion is electric field poling, which suffers from several limitations such as a requirement for photolithography and high-voltage …
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HybridMDSD: Multi-Domain Engineering with Model-Driven Software Development using Ontological Foundations
… significant challenge in market-driven software engineering is the variety of customer needs. It necessitates a maximum of flexibility in software implementations to facilitate the deployment of different products that are based on one single core. To reduce technical complexity, the paradigm of …
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Strain-phase relations in lead-free ferroelectric KxNa1-xNbO3 epitaxial films for domain engineering
… e.g. huge piezoelectric responses and flexible domain wall formation. However so far, thin films have rarely been investigated and the influence of lattice strain on ferroelectric properties has not been studied systematically. In this work, thin films were grown by metal-organic chemical vapor …
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Microstructuring and domain-engineering of lithium niobate using combinations of light, etching and poling
… <br/><br/>A novel electro-optically controlled domain-engineered total internal reflection switch and beam deflector is also reported. Device construction uses electric field poling of lithium niobate to create two parallel but oppositely oriented domains. When an electric field is applied …
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Verification and validation in software product line engineering
… developed within an architecture-based software engineering environment.;In traditional V&V, the system provides the context under which the software will be evaluated, and V&V activities occur during all phases of the system development lifecycle. The transition to a product line approach to …
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A Comparison of Statistical Filtering Methods for Automatic Term Extraction for Domain Analysis
… effectiveness in identifying vocabulary in a domain. Fifteen domain engineering projects were examined to measure how closely the vocabularies selected by the fourteen word frequency metrics were to the vocabularies produced by domain engineers. Six filtering mechanisms were also evaluated to …
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The modification of graphene band structure by periodic potential perturbation
… piece of single crystal thin film PZT undergoes domain engineering to create periodic potentials. With single layer graphene transferred on top, this structure qualifies as an 1D electrostatic graphene superlattice (EGSL), whose effect is measurable as a broadening of the current valley near the …
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Component-based software engineering
… methodologies, component-based software engineering has caught many researchers' attention recently. In component-based software engineering, a software system is considered as a set of software components assembled together instead of as a set of functions from the traditional …
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Evaluating Term Extraction Methods for Domain Analysis
… compared the vocabularies created by various domain experts and the source documents selected by them to create the vocabulary. The results indicate that there is similarity among the vocabularies created and the source documents selected. Also, the relationship between the overlap scores of …
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Structural Investigations of Highly Strictive Materials
… properties. In this work, I have investigated domain and local structures of NBT-x%BT crystals, KNN ceramics and Fe-xat.%Ga alloys under various conditions, mainly by scanning probe and electron transmission techniques. In NBT-x%BT single crystals, polarized light, piezo-response force (PFM) …
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Structure-Property Relationships of Multifeorric Materials: A Nano Perspective
… These transformations lead to complex domain wall behaviors, which are driven by electric fields (ferroelectrics), magnetic fields (ferromagnetics), or mechanical stress (ferroelastics) as they transform from nonferroic to ferroic states, contributing to the sensing and actuating …
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Modeling Software Product Lines Using Feature Diagrams
… for systematic software reuse focus on reuse of domain knowledge. One such strategy is software product line engineering. This strategy selects a set of reusable software components that form the core around which software products in a domain are built. Feature modeling is a process that enables …
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Computer Modeling and Simulation of Morphotropic Phase Boundary Ferroelectrics
… is investigated. It reveals characteristic multidomain microstructures, where nanoscale lamellar domains of tetragonal and rhombohedral phases coexist with well-defined crystallographic orientation relationships and produce coherent diffraction effects. (II) A bridging domain mechanism for …
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Structure-Property Relations on Strain-Mediated Multiferroic Heterostructures
… phase transition processes (amongst nanodomain distributions, dielectric phases, magnetic spin states, etc.), and various ME-related properties were characterized under different E or temperature environments. Resulting data enabled us to determine the structure-property relationships for …
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Phase transformations in highly electrostrictive and magnetostrictive crystals: structural heterogeneity and history dependent phase stability
Ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials have been extensively studied for potential applications in sensors, actuators and transducers. Highly electrostrictive (1-x)Pb(Mg<sub>1/3</sub>Nb<sub>2/3</sub>)-xPbTiO₃ (PMN-xPT) and highly magnetostrictive Fe-xat.%Ga are two such novel materials. Both …
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Synthesis-Structure-Property Relationships in Lead-Free Piezoelectric Materials
… through microstructure optimization, domain engineering and multilayering. All these approaches are challenging and require innovation to make a significant impact on the current state-of-the-art. In this thesis, the later line of research was focused which is promising for near future …