Publications by authors named "Kevin See"

Anthropogenic impacts on riverine systems have, in part, led to management concerns regarding the population status of species using these systems. In an effort to assess the efficacy of restoration actions, and in order to improve monitoring of species of concern, managers have turned to PIT (passive integrated transponder) tag studies with in-stream detectors to monitor movements of tagged individuals throughout river networks. However, quantifying movements in a river network using PIT tag data with incomplete coverage and imperfect detections presents a challenge.

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Forecasting the risk of population decline is crucial in the realm of biological conservation and figures prominently in population viability analyses (PVA). A common form of available data for a PVA is population counts through time. Previous research has suggested that improving estimates of population trends and risk from count data depends on longer observation periods, but that is often impractical or undesirable.

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The study of population dynamics requires unbiased, precise estimates of abundance and vital rates that account for the demographic structure inherent in all wildlife and plant populations. Traditionally, these estimates have only been available through approaches that rely on intensive mark-recapture data. We extended recently developed N-mixture models to demonstrate how demographic parameters and abundance can be estimated for structured populations using only stage-structured count data.

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The electrical behavior of a conducting-polymer/inorganic-nanowire composite is explained with a model in which carrier transport occurs predominantly through a highly conductive volume of polymer that exists at the polymer-nanowire interface. This result highlights the importance of controlling nanoscale interfaces for thermoelectric materials, and provides a general route for improving carrier transport in organic/inorganic composites.

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We designed a new naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide (NTCDI) semiconductor molecule with long fluoroalkylbenzyl side chains. The side chains, 1.2 nm long, not only aid in self-assembly and kinetically stabilize injected electrons but also act as part of the gate dielectric in field-effect transistors.

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We report the synthesis and thermoelectric characterization of composite nanocrystals composed of a tellurium core functionalized with the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS). Solution processed nanocrystal films electronically out perform both PEDOT:PSS and unfunctionalized Te nanorods while retaining a polymeric thermal conductivity, resulting in a room temperature ZT ∼ 0.1.

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Organic semiconductor films are susceptible to noncovalent interactions, trapping and doping, photoexcitation, and dimensional deformation. While these effects can be detrimental to the performance of conventional circuits, they can be harnessed, especially in field-effect architectures, to detect chemical and physical stimuli. This Review summarizes recent advances in the use of organic electronic materials for the detection of environmental chemicals, pressure, and light.

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We report bottom contact organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) with various surface treatments based on n-channel materials, specifically, 1,4,5,8-naphthalene-teracarboxylic diimides (NTCDIs) with three different fluorinated N-substituents, systematically studied with a particular emphasis on the interplay between the morphology of the organic semiconductor films and the electrical device properties. The morphological origins of the improvements were directly and dramatically visualized at the semiconductor-contact interface. As a result of a series of treatments, a large range of performances of bottom contact side-chain-fluorinated NTCDI OFETs (mobility from 1 x 10(-6) to 8 x 10(-2) cm(2)/(V s), on/off ratio from 1 x 10(2) to 1 x 10(5)) were obtained.

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Sodium beta-alumina (SBA) has high two-dimensional conductivity, owing to mobile sodium ions in lattice planes, between which are insulating AlO(x) layers. SBA can provide high capacitance perpendicular to the planes, while causing negligible leakage current owing to the lack of electron carriers and limited mobility of sodium ions through the aluminium oxide layers. Here, we describe sol-gel-beta-alumina films as transistor gate dielectrics with solution-deposited zinc-oxide-based semiconductors and indium tin oxide (ITO) gate electrodes.

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The interband transition contributions to the optical properties of silver nanoparticles in fluoropolymer matrices are investigated. For the materials in this study, nanoparticle synthesis within the existing polymer matrix is accomplished using an infusion process that consists of diffusing an organometallic precursor gas into the free volume of the fluoropolymer and decomposing the precursor followed by metal nanoparticle nucleation and growth. The resulting polymer matrix nanocomposite has optical properties that are dominated by the response of the nanoparticles owing to the broadbanded transparency of the fluoropolymer matrix.

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