Energy harvesting was and still an important point of research. Batteries have been utilized for a long time, but they are now not compatible with the downsizing of technology. Also, their need to be recharged and changed periodically is not very desirable, therefore over the years energy harvesting from the environment and the human body have been investigated. Three energy harvesting methods which are the Piezoelectric energy harvesters, the Enzymatic Biofuel cells, and Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are being discussed in the paper. Although Biofuel cells have been investigated for a

In this paper, different integer and fractional-order models are studied from electrical point of view, these models are used to fit the measured impedance data for different types of fruits and vegetables. Experimental work is done on eight different models for six types of fruits to verify the best fitting model. Electric impedance is measured in the range of frequencies (200 mHz–200 Khz) using a non-destructive method, where the tissues are not damaged by electrode insertion. Moreover, two integer order models have been extended to the fractional order domain where data analysis and fitting

A highly efficient photovoltaic nanocomposite device is demonstrated by fabrication of structural clusters of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) on silicon solar cells via a boil deposition method. The efficiency of silicon solar cell was augmented by coating Ag NPs ultra-thin-film deposition on silicon solar cell. Chemically synthesized silver NP's, their consumption on a silicon thin layer and the operation of photovoltaic nanocomposite device were characterized by using several electron probe microscopic pectroscopic and spectrometric techniques viz. x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron

This paper presents a complete analysis of the mathematical model of the gene regulation process. The model describes the induced gene expression under the effect of activators. The model differential equations are solved analytically, and the exact solution of the gene model is introduced. Moreover, a study of the model dynamics, including the fixed points and stability conditions are presented. The parameters effects on the phase plane portraits and the transient responses of the mRNA as well as the protein concentrations are intensively detailed. This work serves as a brick stone towards a

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) has been used as a technique for the assessment of food attributes. This paper discusses the effect of injuries caused by heating and freezing treatments to plant's bioimpedance. Unlike other studies to these kinds of injuries, experiments are carried out on the whole fruit using non-invasive electrodes keeping the plant tissues unharmed. Moreover, one of the samples under test was chosen to be a ripening fruit to discuss how its bioimpedance behavior differ from non-ripening ones. The experimental results showed how the damage caused by freezing

This paper proposes a new design for ternary logic comparator unit based on memristive threshold logic concept. To provide high-performance design, integrating memristor and Carbon Nano-Tube Field-Effect Transistor, CNTFET, is used. A comparison with other related work is presented to discuss performance aspects. It shows that performance has been improved by 75% compared with the other related work. Therefore, the proposed design is very promising to build high-performance full ternary ALU memristor-based unit. © 2018 IEEE.

Exploring the nonlinear dynamics of the memristors is essential to be adequately used in the applications. Realizing memristor on FPGAs as an intellectual property (IP) core offers a flexible platform to realize different models. In the literature, few implementations have been proposed for simple and limited memristor model. In this brief, two discrete and continuous versatile memristor models alongside their FPGA realizations are proposed. These models can generate different pinched hysteric behaviors, such as symmetric, asymmetric pinched hysteresis, and multi-state switching behavior. In

This paper proposes a charge pump based on a charge controlled memcapacitor. The operation of the charge pump is investigated along with the mathematical analysis of the memcapacitor. Different implementations of charge pump are summarized. The proposed charge pump has the capability of driving low input voltage in range of 200mv and the capability of operating at the low frequencies which makes it suitable for biomedical applications. © 2017 IEEE.

This paper introduces a new encryption/decryption scheme based on a dynamic substitution box concept. Values of the proposed S-Box are different for each sample depending on the behavior of a memristor-based chaotic system. MATLAB simulations and FPGA implementation for the circuit are presented with throughput 4.266 Gbit/s. Also, FPGA realization for encryption/decryption scheme is proposed. Entropy, MSE, correlation coefficient tests are applied on two different input files to examine the efficiency of this cryptosystem. © 2018 IEEE.

Ternary number, which attracts the research attention for its high capacity, has emerged in many applications, recently. Unlike binary numbers, two bit ternary number involves 93 = 729 different functions while two bit binary number involves only 42 = 16 different possible functions. In this paper, a novel automatic software description two bits ternary functions design tool is presented. Different examples are provided and synthesized to ternary logic circuits. Finally, the presented logic circuits are verified by SPICE simulation using carbon nano-Tube (CNTFET) transistors. © 2019 IEEE.