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ABSTRACT: The ACM SIGSPATIAL Cup 2012 is about map matching, a problem of correctly matching a sequence of GPS sampling points to the roads on a digital map. This paper describes one of the winning submissions of the competition. The approach applies multi-threading technology to map matching in order to reduce running time and we propose an improvement to the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) map matching algorithm.
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012; 11/2012
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ABSTRACT: The structural and optical properties of amorphous semiconductor mercury cadmium telluride (a-MCT) are obtained by the first
principles calculations. The total pair distribution functions and the density of states show that the a-MCT has the semiconductor
characteristic. The calculated results of dielectric function show that E
2 peak of the imaginary of dielectric function for the crystal mercury cadmium telluride abruptly disappears in the amorphous
case due to the long-range disorders. And the imaginary of dielectric function of a-MCT shows a large broad peak, which is
in agreement with the available results of other amorphous semiconductors. From the linear extrapolation of the curve ħωɛ
2(ω)1/2 versus ħω, it can be obtained that the optical energy gap of amorphous semiconductor Hg0.5Cd0.5Te is 0.51±0.05 eV.
Science in China Series E Technological Sciences 04/2012; 52(7):1928-1932. · 1.02 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The size-dependence on the electronic and transport properties of the molecular devices of the edge-modified graphene nanoribbon (GNR) slices is investigated using density-functional theory and Green's function theory. Two edge-modifying functional group pairs are considered. Energy gap is found in all the GNR slices. The gap shows an exponential decrease with increasing the slice size of two vertical orientations in the two edge terminated cases, respectively. The tunneling probability and the number of conducting channel decreases with increasing the GNR-slices size in the junctions. The results indicate that the acceptor-donor pair edge modulation can improve the quantum conductance and decrease the finite-size effect on the transmission capability of the GNR slice-based molecular devices.
Journal of Computational Chemistry 02/2011; 32(8):1753-9. · 4.58 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: First-principle calculations based on density functional theory have been performed on the nonmagnetic 2p light element C-doped ZnO thin films. The total energies and magnetism of the system are calculated with a ten-layer slab along () direction. The results show that the C-doped ZnO thin films are ferromagnetic. A single C is preferable to occupy the subsurface site. As the concentration of C atoms increases, the ferromagnetic coupling among the dopants is more favorable, and they tend to form a cluster around the Zn atom at the film surface. The ferromagnetism is predicted to be mainly from a p–d exchange-like p–p coupling interaction and a p–d exchange hybridization. The p–p coupling interaction is the dominative mechanism.
Physics Letters A.
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ABSTRACT: The understanding of the microstructures of the arsenic tetramer , dimer , and singlet of HgCdTe is important to explain the high electrical compensation of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) samples and the conversion to p-type behavior. The stable configurations were obtained from the first-principles calculations for the arsenic cluster defects [ (n=1, 2, and 4)] in as-grown HgCdTe. According to the defect formation energies calculated under Te-rich conditions, the most probable configurations of , , and have been established. For the optimized and the energy is favorable to combine in a nearest neighboring mercury vacancy , and the corresponding configurations can be used to explain the self-compensated n-type characteristics in as-grown materials. is likely to be more abundant than in as-grown materials, but arsenic atoms are more strongly bounded in than in , thus more substantial activation energy is needed for than that for . The atomic relaxations as well as the structural stability of the arsenic defects have also been investigated.
Solid State Communications 143(10):471-475. · 1.65 Impact Factor
