Browsing by Subject "Nanotechnology"

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      Adaptive probabilistic flooding for nanonetworks employing molecular communication 

      Saeed, T.; Lestas, Marios; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      Probabilistic flooding is a simple to implement, information dissemination scheme which is known to alleviate the broadcast storm problem. Simplicity of implementation is a critical requirement of network protocol design ...
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      CORONA: A coordinate and routing system for nanonetworks 

      Tsioliaridou, A.; Liaskos, Christos K.; Ioannidis, S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015)
      The present paper introduces a joint coordinate and routing system (CORONA) which can be deployed dynamically on a 2D ad-hoc nanonetwork. User-selected nodes are used as anchor-points at the setup phase. All nodes then ...
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      A deployable routing system for nanonetworks 

      Liaskos, Christos K.; Tsioliaridou, A.; Ioannidis, S.; Kantartzis, N.; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      Nanonetworks comprise numerous wireless nodes, assembled at micro-to-nano scale. The unique manufacturing challenges and cost considerations of these networks make for minimal complexity solutions at all network layers. ...
    • Article  

      Design and Development of Software Defined Metamaterials for Nanonetworks 

      Liaskos, Christos K.; Tsioliaridou, A.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Akyildiz, I. F.; Kantartzis, N. V.; Lalas, A. X.; Dimitropoulos, Xenofontas A.; Ioannidis, S.; Kafesaki, M.; Soukoulis, C. M. (2015)
      This paper introduces a class of programmable metamaterials, whose electromagnetic properties can be controlled via software. These software defined metamaterials (SDMs) stem from utilizing metamaterials in combination ...
    • Doctoral Thesis  Open Access

      Design of novel metal nanostructures for biological and biomedical applications 

      Angelidou, Myria M. (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Engineering, 2014-06)
      Τα μεταλλικά νανοσωματίδια βρίσκονται στο επίκεντρο έντονου ερευνητικού ενδιαφέροντος λόγω των μοναδικών οπτικών ιδιοτήτων τους. Μέχρι τώρα, διάφορα δημοσιεύματα έχουν καλύψει τη σύνθεση, τροποποίηση, και εφαρμογές των ...
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      Design rules for cancer nanomedicines 

      Stylianopoulos, T.; Soteriou, K.; Fukumura, D.; Jain, R. K. (Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CyprusAffiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United StatesCorrespondence Address: Stylianopoulos, T.Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2012)
      The use of nanotechnology has offered new hope for cancer detection, prevention and treatment. Nanoparticle formulations are advantageous over conventional chemotherapy because they can incorporate multiple diagnostic and ...
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      Determination of critical points on silicon nanofilms: Surface and quantum confinement effects 

      Lioudakis, Emmanouil E.; Othonos, Andreas S.; Nassiopoulou, Androula Galiouna (2008)
      In this work, we present a comprehensive study of the optical properties of nanocrystalline silicon films with thickness varied from 5 to 30 nm. Spectroscopic ellipsometry is employed to determine the dielectric functions ...
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      Effect of ball milling on the carbon sequestration efficiency of serpentinized peridotites 

      Rigopoulos, I.; Delimitis, A.; Ioannou, I.; Efstathiou, A. M.; Kyratsi, Theodora (2018)
      Mineral carbonation has been suggested as a safe carbon capture and storage (CCS) strategy for the mitigation of climate change. This study investigates the effect of ball milling on the CO2 sequestration capacity of ...
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      Effect of silicon nitride/oxide on the structure and the thermal conductivity of CoSi nanocomposites 

      Ioannou, M.; Delimitis, A.; Symeou, E.; Giapintzakis, John; Kyratsi, Theodora (2017)
      In this work, the fabrication of nanocomposites with silicon nitride/oxide into the thermoelectric matrix of cobalt silicide is presented. The different concentrations of nano-Si3N4 were intentionally introduced by mechanical ...
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      Enhancing the nanoscratch resistance of pulsed laser deposited DLC films through molybdenum-doping 

      Constantinou, M.; Pervolaraki, M.; Koutsokeras, L.; Prouskas, C.; Patsalas, P.; Kelires, P.; Giapintzakis, John; Constantinides, G. (2017)
      Pulsed laser deposition was used to grow DLC and molybdenum-doped DLC (DLC:Mo) films, with metal contents up to 3.2 at.%, on silicon substrates. The microstructural details of the films were investigated using X-ray ...
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      Exothermic reaction characteristics of continuously ball-milled Al/Ni powder compacts 

      Hadjiafxenti, A.; Gunduz, I. E.; Kyratsi, Theodora; Doumanidis, C. C.; Rebholz, Claus (2013)
      Self-propagating reactions in compacted pellets of continuously low-energy ball-milled aluminium (Al) and nickel (Ni) powders at a composition corresponding to AlNi3 were investigated. The formation of a bi-modal structure ...
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      Fabrication and characterization of nanoscale heating sources ("nanoheaters") for nanomanufacturing 

      Jogdand, H.; Gulsoy, G.; Ando, T.; Chen, J.; Doumanidis, C. C.; Zhiyong, G.; Rebholz, Claus; Wong, P. (Affiliation: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United StatesAffiliation: Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United StatesAffiliation: Dept. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CyprusAffiliation: Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Ave., Lowell, MA 0185, United StatesAffiliation: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United StatesCorrespondence Address: Jogdand, H.Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, 2008)
      Nanoheater systems based on the exothermic reaction between aluminum and nickel were developed. Multilayered and powder-based heterostructures were fabricated and characterized, before and after ignition experiments, for ...
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      Fine-grain parallelism using multi-core, cell/BE, and GPU systems: Accelerating the phylogenetic likelihood function 

      Pratas, F.; Trancoso, Pedro; Stamatakis, A.; Sousa, L. (2009)
      We are currently faced with the situation where applications have increasing computational demands and there is a wide selection of parallel processor systems. In this paper we focus on exploiting fine-grain parallelism ...
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      Lightweight, self-tuning data dissemination for dense nanonetworks 

      Tsioliaridou, A.; Liaskos, Christos K.; Ioannidis, S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2015)
      A nanonetwork comprises a high number of autonomous nodes with wireless connectivity, assembled at micro-to-nanoscale. In general, manufacturing and cost considerations imply that nanonetworking approaches should have ...
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      Modeling of thermal conductivity in high performing thermoelectric materials 

      Hatzikraniotis, E.; Kyratsi, Theodora; Paraskevopoulos, K. M. (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2017)
      The enhanced TE-performance in Mg2Si-Mg2Sn based pseudo-binaries is presented, which is attributed to low thermal conductivity. Sn-Si alloying, reduces the lattice thermal conductivity due to mass fluctuation. Furthermore, ...
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      Molecular dynamic simulations of carbon nanotubes in CO2 atmosphere 

      Alexiadis, A.; Kassinos, Stavros C. (2008)
      This work investigates by means of molecular dynamics the filling of carbon nanotubes by carbon dioxide molecules. Nanotubes of various sizes are simulated and the resulting CO2 density calculated. The effects of various ...
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      N3: Addressing and routing in 3D nanonetworks 

      Tsioliaridou, A.; Liaskos, Christos K.; Pachis, L.; Ioannidis, S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      Wireless communication at nanoscale faces unique challenges stemming from low hardware capabilities, limited power supply and unreliable channel conditions. The present paper proposes a networking scheme that can operate ...
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      Nature inspired node density estimation for molecular nanonetworks 

      Saeed, T.; Lestas, Marios; Pitsillides, Andreas (2017)
      The problem of estimating the node density in ad hoc networks is a significant one for protocol design. In molecular nanonetworks, the node density estimation problem poses additional challenges due to the limited processing ...
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      Nature inspired node density estimation for molecular NanoNetworks 

      Saeed, T.; Lestas, Marios; Pitsillides, Andreas (Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016)
      Inspired by the quorum sensing process, we propose and analyze a distributed density estimation scheme for molecular nanonetworks, based on synchronous transmission of the network nodes and sensing of the received molecular ...
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      NoCAlert: An on-line and real-time fault detection mechanism for network-on-chip architectures 

      Prodromou, Andreas; Panteli, Andreas; Nicopoulos, Chrysostomos A.; Sazeides, Yiannakis (2012)
      The widespread proliferation of the Chip Multi-Processor (CMP) paradigm has cemented the criticality of the on-chip interconnection fabric. The Network-on-Chip (NoC) is becoming increasingly susceptible to emerging reliability ...