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[pt] Em 2015, iniciei uma investigação etnográfica com o objetivo de mapear e participar de coletivos feministas que estivessem ativos politicamente por meio da mídia fanzine, ou zines. Entre 2015-2018, arquivamos 101 zines das regiões Centro-Sul do Brasil; circulamos por envelopes na troca de cartas, por eventos punkfeministas e, principalmente, por feiras de zines a céu aberto. A vertigem da cidade do Rio de Janeiro-RJ, nosso locus de pesquisa, nos afetou enquanto o país passava por uma série de tombamentos nas macroestruturas de poder. Neste cenário, as zineiras (quem faz zines) formavam alianças em gestos de resistência às violências cotidianas da metrópole e elaboravam relações políticas velcro-provisórias (Gloria Anzaldúa), sendo os zines a sua principal mídia de emissão e prática de si (Michel Foucault). Em nosso campo de pesquisa pudemos refletir sobre as práticas de escrita zinefeministas contemporâneas; os gestos de revide às violações de limites (dentro e fora de espaços contraculturais); e, com Judith Butler, enxergar os levantes como potência desses coletivos. Além disso, mergulhamos no trabalho da dadaísta Hannah Höch para analisar os zines de nosso recorte. A proposta desta tese foi problematizar as noções de comunidade, amizade e sabedorias consagradas; além das próprias experiências ocorridas na pesquisa dentro do que chamamos de campo zinefeminista. Observamos as dinâmicas, afetações políticas e relações entre as participantes dessa rede; aproximamo-nos de sua economia das trocas e, com as falas de zineiras não-heterossexuais, contamos uma história com impulsos de fúria e saudade. / [en] In 2015, I started an ethnographic research with the objective of mapping and attending feminist collectives that were politically active through self-publications (zines). Between the years 2015-2018 we have archived 101 zines from the Center- South regions of Brazil; we have checked envelopes in the exchange of letters, and we also have circulated through punk-feminist events and particularly open skies zine fairs. Rio de Janeiro city s vertigo, our research locus, affected us as the country underwent a series of toppling in the macro-structures of power. In this scenario, the zinesters formed alliances regarding gestures of resistances to the daily violence of the metropolis and elaborated political relations called velcro-alliance (Gloria Anzaldúa) being the zines their main medium and practice of the self (Michel Foucault). In our research field, we could reflect on contemporary zine-feminist writing practices; the gestures of retaliation to the limit violations (inside and outside the counter-cultural spaces); and with Judith Butler we were able to see the uprisings as the power of these feminist collectives. In addition, we have immersed in the Dadaist Hannah Höch s work so we could analyze the zines of our scope. The goal of this thesis was to problematize the notions of community, friendship and consecrated wisdom; besides the particular experiences that have occurred in the research within what we call the zine-feminist field. We have had the opportunity to observe the dynamics, political affectations and relationships among the participants of this network; we have approached ourselves to the economy of trade and, using the speeches of non-heterosexual zinesters, we have told a story with impulses of fury and longing (in Brazilian Portuguese, the feeling of missing someone).

<p>  </p> <p>Organic-inorganic halide perovskites are at the brink of commercialization as the next generation of light-absorbing materials for solar energy harvesting devices. Perovskites have large absorption coefficients, long charge-carrier lifetimes and diffusion lengths, and a tunable absorption spectrum. Furthermore, these materials can be low-temperature solution-processed, which transfers to low-cost manufacturing and cost-competitive products. The remarkable material properties of perovskites enable a broad product-market fit, encompassing traditional and new applications for solar technology. Perovskites can be deposited on flexible substrates for flexible solar cells, applied in thermochromic windows for power generation and building cooling, or tuned for tandem solar cell application to include in high-performance solar panels. However, perovskites are intrinsically unstable, which has so far prevented their commercialization. Despite large research efforts, including over two thousand publications per year, perovskite solar cells degrade in under one year of operation. In a saturated research field, new ideas are needed to inspire alternative approaches to solve the perovskite stability problem. In this dissertation, we detail research efforts surrounding the concept of a self-healing perovskite solar cell.</p> <p>     A self-healing perovskite solar cell can be classified with two distinctions: mechanically healing and molecularly healing. First, mechanically self-healing involves the material’s ability to recover its intrinsic properties after mechanical damage such as tares, lacerations, or cracking. This type of healing was unique to the organic polymer community and ultra-rare in semiconducting materials. By combining a self-healing polymer with perovskite material, we developed a self-healing semiconducting perovskite composite material which can heal using synergistic grain growth and solid-state diffusion processes at slightly elevated temperatures. The material is demonstrated in flexible solar cells with improved bending durability and a power conversion efficiency reaching 10%. The addition of fluidic polymer enables macroscopic perovskite material movement, which is otherwise brittle and rigid. The results inspire the use of polymer scaffolds for mechanically self-healing solar cells.</p> <p>     The second type of healing, molecular healing, involves healing defects within the rigid crystal domains resulting from ion migration. The same phenomenon which leads to device degradation, also assists the recovery of the device performance after resting the device in the dark. During device operation, perovskite ions diffuse in the perovskite lattice and accumulate at the device interfaces where they undergo chemical reactions or leave the perovskite layer, ultimately consuming the perovskite precursors. The photovoltaic performance can be recovered if irreversible degradation is limited. Ideally, degradation and recovery can match day and night cycling to dramatically extend the lifetime of perovskite solar cells. In this dissertation, we introduce the application of chalcogenide chemistry in the fabrication of perovskite solar cells to control the thin film crystallization process, ultimately to reduce defects in the perovskite bulk and introduce surface functionality which extends the device stability. This new strategy will help improve molecularly self-healing perovskite solar cell by reducing irreversible degradation. Lastly, we present a few other new ideas to inspire future research in perovskite solar cells and assist in the commercialization of the next generation of photovoltaics.</p>

Abstract : The objective of this work is the characterization of heat and mechanical damage in the mortar by the nonlinear acoustic waves. The correlation between non-linear/linear acoustic parameters and damage in mortar is studied based on experiments and modelling. Experimental measurements of non-linear acoustic parameters as a function of temperature and crack size were performed on mortar. The velocities showed a decrease when increasing the degradation and the non-linear parameters showed an increase when increasing the damage. For the heat damage, cylindrical specimens were prepared and were characterized by studying the porosity and saturation. Then, the temperature controls the degradation. Indeed, the linear acoustic (UPV) and non-linear acoustic (Higher harmonic generation) were applied to characterize the damage. The linear acoustic tests have shown that the longitudinal, transverse velocities and modulus of Young of the mortar decreases in function of the temperature. The non-linear acoustic tests have shown that beta increases in function of the temperature. For the mechanical damage and the self-healing, an annular specimens were prepared and cracked by controlling the size of each crack. Then the self-healing phenomenon was characterized by the permeability and the acoustic tests. Indeed, the permeability tests have shown that the airflow and the crack size decreases quickly in the first month then slowly for the rest of the self-healing process. On the other hand, the non-linear acoustic tests shown that the alpha and beta decreases according to the self-healing process which means that the nonlinear parameters are good indicators to characterize the self-healing. Moreover, the analysis of the experimental results indicates that the frequency resonant technique is more efficient to characterize the defects in the mortar than the higher harmonic generation. From the experimental tests and to get a general result independent for our case study, the nonlinear parameters were related to a damage index. A polynomial correlations of a 2nd degree was established between the nonlinear parameters and the index damage. A numerical model based on the finite element volume was proposed to establish a correlation between the crack size and the airflow. The numerical results were compared with the results of the permeability tests and shown a good agreement. The findings of this work should be most appropriate as a foundation for the study of the self-healing by the nonlinear acoustic waves. / Résumé : L'objectif de ce travail est la caractérisation de l’endommagement thermique et mécanique dans le mortier par les ondes acoustiques non linéaires. La corrélation entre les paramètres acoustiques linéaires et non linéaires est basée sur les essais expérimentaux et la modélisation. Des mesures expérimentales des paramètres acoustiques non linéaires en fonction de la taille de la fissure et la température ont été effectuées sur mortier. Les vitesses ont montré une diminution et les paramètres non linéaires ont montré une augmentation en augmentant le degré de fissuration. Pour l’endommagement thermique, des éprouvettes cylindriques ont été préparées et ont été caractérisées par l'étude de la porosité et de la saturation. L'acoustique linéaire (UPV) et l’acoustique non linéaire (génération d'harmoniques) ont été appliquées afin de quantifier l’endommagement. Les essais acoustiques linéaires ont montré que les vitesses transversales, longitudinales et le module d'Young du mortier diminuent en fonction de la température. Les essais acoustiques non linéaires ont montré l'augmentation du bêta est fonction de l’endommagement thermique. Pour l’endommagement mécanique et l'autocicatrisation, des anneaux de mortier ont été préparés et fissurés en contrôlant la taille de chaque fissure. Ensuite, le phénomène d'autocicatrisation est suivi par la perméabilité et des essais acoustiques. Les essais de perméabilité ont montré que le débit d'air et la taille de la fissure diminuent rapidement au cours du premier mois, puis lentement durant le reste du processus d'autocicatrisation. D'autre part, les tests acoustiques non linéaires ont montré que « alpha » et « bêta » diminuent durant le processus de l’autocicatrisation, ce qui signifie que les paramètres non linéaires sont des bons indicateurs pour caractériser ce phénomène. En outre, l'analyse des résultats expérimentaux indique que la technique de résonance de fréquence est plus efficace pour caractériser les défauts dans le mortier que la génération d'harmoniques plus élevés. À partir des essais expérimentaux et dans le but d'obtenir un résultat plus général indépendant de notre cas d’étude, les paramètres non linéaires ont été liés à un index d’endommagement. Une corrélation polynomiale de 2e degré a été établie entre les paramètres non linéaires et l’index d’endommagement. Un modèle numérique basé sur la méthode des volumes finis a été proposé afin d'établir une corrélation entre la taille de la fissure et le flux d'air. Les résultats numériques ont été comparés avec les résultats des tests de perméabilité et montré un bon accord. Les résultats de ce travail représentent un bon départ pour étudier le phénomène de l'autocicatrisation par les ondes acoustiques non linéaires.

Self-healing systems promise operating cost reductions in large-scale computing environments through the automated detection of, and recovery from, faults. However, at present there appears to be little known empirical evidence comparing the different approaches, or demonstrations that such implementations reduce costs. This thesis compares previous and current self-healing approaches before demonstrating a new, unsupervised approach that combines artificial neural networks with performance tests to perform fault identification in an automated fashion, i.e. the correct and accurate determination of which computer features are associated with a given performance test failure. Several key contributions are made in the course of this research including an analysis of the different types of self-healing approaches based on their contextual use, a baseline for future comparisons between self-healing frameworks that use artificial neural networks, and a successful, automated fault identification in cloud infrastructure, and more specifically virtual machines. This approach uses three established machine learning techniques: Naïve Bayes, Baum-Welch, and Contrastive Divergence Learning. The latter demonstrates minimisation of human-interaction beyond previous implementations by producing a list in decreasing order of likelihood of potential root causes (i.e. fault hypotheses) which brings the state of the art one step closer toward fully self-healing systems. This thesis also examines the impact of that different types of faults have on their respective identification. This helps to understand the validity of the data being presented, and how the field is progressing, whilst examining the differences in impact to identification between emulated thread crashes and errant user changes – a contribution believed to be unique to this research. Lastly, future research avenues and conclusions in automated fault identification are described along with lessons learned throughout this endeavor. This includes the progression of artificial neural networks, how learning algorithms are being developed and understood, and possibilities for automatically generating feature locality data.

Les logiciels s'orientent de plus en plus vers des architectures évolutives, capables de s'adapter facilement aux changements et d'intégrer de nouvelles fonctionnalités. Ceci est important pour plusieurs classes d'applications qui ont besoin d‘évoluer sans que cela implique d'interrompre leur exécution. Des plateformes dynamiques à composants autorisent ce type d'évolution à l'exécution, en permettant aux composants d'être chargés et exécutés sans requérir le redémarrage complet de l'application en service. Toutefois, la flexibilité d'un tel mécanisme introduit de nouveaux défis qui exigent de gérer les possibles erreurs dues à des incohérences dans le processus de mise à jour, ou en raison du comportement défectueux de composants survenant pendant l'exécution de l'application. Des composants tiers dont l'origine ou la qualité sont inconnus peuvent être considérées à priori comme peu fiables, car ils peuvent potentiellement introduire des défauts d'applications lorsqu'il est combiné avec d'autres composants. Nous sommes intéressés à la réduction de l'impact de ces composants considérés comme non fiables et qui sont susceptibles de compromettre la fiabilité de l'application en cours d'exécution. Cette thèse porte sur l'application de techniques pour améliorer la fiabilité des applications dynamiques à composants. Pour cela, nous proposons l'utilisation des frontières d'isolation pouvant fournir du contingentement de fautes. Le composant ainsi isolé ne perturbe pas le reste de l'application quand il est défaillant. Une telle approche peut être vu sous trois perspectives présentées: (i) l'isolement des composants dynamiques, régi par une politique d'exécution reconfigurable, (ii) l'autoréparation de conteneurs d‘isolement, et (iii) l'utilisation des aspects pour séparer les préoccupations de fiabilité à partir du code fonctionnel. / Software is moving towards evolutionary architectures that are able to easily accommodate changes and integrate new functionality. This is important in a wide range of applications, from plugin-based end user applications to critical applications with high availability requirements. Dynamic component-based platforms allow software to evolve at runtime, by allowing components to be loaded, and executed without forcing applications to be restarted. However, the flexibility of such mechanism demands applications to cope with errors due to inconsistencies in the update process, or due to faulty behavior from components introduced during execution. This is mainly true when dealing with third-party components, making it harder to predict the impacts (e.g., runtime incompatibilities, application crashes) and to maintain application dependability when integrating such third-party code into the application. Components whose origin or quality attributes are unknown could be considered as untrustworthy since they can potentially introduce faults to applications when combined with other components, even if unintentionally. The quality of components is harder to evaluate when components are combined together, especially if it happens on-the-fly. We are interested in reducing the impact that can be brought by untrustworthy components deployed at runtime and that would potentially compromise application dependability. This thesis focuses on applying techniques for moving a step forward towards dependable dynamic component-based applications by addressing different dependability attributes namely reliability, maintainability and availability. We propose the utilization of strong component isolation boundaries, by providing a fault-contained environment for separately running untrustworthy components. Our solution combines three approaches: (i) the dynamic isolation of components, governed by a runtime reconfigurable policy; (ii) a self-healing component isolation container; and (iii) the usage of aspects for separating dependability concerns from functional code.

L’alliage d’aluminium 2024 est très répandu dans l’industrie aéronautique et automobile. Le processus de corrosion peut entrainer des dommages irréversibles pouvant engendrer des issues fatales dans le domaine aéronautique. Ainsi plusieurs couches de revêtements sont déposées à la surface du métal à protéger pour prévenir le processus de corrosion. Depuis le début du 20ième siècle, le chrome hexavalent (CrVI) a été largement utilisé comme inhibiteur de corrosion dans les différentes couches du revêtement (prétraitement, primer et top-coat). La toxicité de ce composé envers l’homme et l’environnement a entrainé son interdiction et donc son remplacement comme agent de protection. Le confinement d’agent anticorrosif dans des nano-conteneurs a ainsi été reporté puisqu’un effet auto-réparant, en relargant sur demande, peut-être apporté : l’inhibiteur de corrosion agit quand le dommage apparait. Cette étude est focalisée sur l’utilisation de matériaux de type Hydroxydes Doubles Lamellaires (HDL) comme réservoir d’inhibiteurs de corrosion en raison leur propriété d’échange. Dans ce travail, plusieurs molécules ont été étudiées comme potentiel inhibiteur de corrosion. Celles-ci ont été tout d’abord caractérisées par DC-polarisation afin de déterminer la nature de leur comportement inhibiteur (anodique, cathodique ou les deux). Ensuite, ces agents anticorrosifs ont été intercalés dans des matrices HDL et leur capacité de relargage ainsi que leur comportement face au processus de corrosion ont été étudiés. Les particules HDL ainsi obtenues ont été dispersées dans la formulation d’un revêtement primaire et déposé directement sur l’alliage aluminium 2024. La résistance à la corrosion a été suivie par spectroscopie d’impédance complexe. Les propriétés d’auto-protection de notre revêtement (relargage d’agent anticorrosive encas de dommage) et leur propriété barrière, apportée par la morphologie lamellaire des nano-conteneurs, entrainant une diminution de la perméabilité aux espèces agressives (ex. eau, O2, électrolyte) responsable de l’apparition de cloques sur les revêtements, ont ainsi été caractérisées. / Aluminum alloy 2024 is widely used in aircraft and automotive industry. Corrosion processes can provide irreversible damage on the metal substrate which could have a tragic issue in the aircraft domain. Thus, several coating layers have been applied on the metal substrate to prevent corrosion process. Since the beginning of the 20th century, hexavalent chromate compounds have been extensively used as corrosion inhibitor agents for paint, primer and conversion coating. The toxicity for human health and environment has led to replace such compounds. The literature has reported different possibilities to replace such unfriendly compounds. Moreover, the entrapment of corrosion inhibitors in nanocontainer provides a self-healing effect by releasing, on demand, the active species when damage occurs. This study focuses on Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) material as reservoir due to its exchange properties. This study has characterized several potential corrosion inhibitor molecules by DC-Polarization to determine the nature of the inhibitor compound (i.e. anodic, cathodic or both of them). Further, active anticorrosive species have been intercalated into LDH framework. Then, the release of inhibitor agents and their subsequent behaviour toward corrosion inhibition have been evaluated. Modified LDH materials have been further dispersed in the primer coating formulation and applied on aluminum alloys 2024 substrate. Corrosion inhibition has been followed by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy experiments on scratched and unscratched panel which have permitted to evaluate the self-healing property of these modified LDH materials when damage occurs and the barrier property provided by the lamellar morphology of the inorganic reservoir that is found to decrease the permeation by enhancing the tortuosity of the coating layer towards aggressive species (i.e. water, O2, electrolyte) responsible of the blistering phenomenon.

The advent of deep submicron technology coupled with ever increasing demands from the customer for more functionality on a compact silicon real estate has led to a proliferation of highly complex integrated RF system-on-chip (SoC) and system-on-insulator (SoI) solutions. The use of scaled CMOS technologies for high frequency wireless applications is posing daunting technological challenges both in design and manufacturing test. To ensure market success, manufacturers need to ensure the quality of these advanced RF devices by subjecting them to a conventional set of production test routines that are both time consuming and expensive. Typically the devices are tested for parametric specifications such as gain, linearity metrics, quadrature mismatches, phase noise, noise figure (NF) and end-to-end system level specifications such as EVM (error vector magnitude), BER (bit-error-rate) etc. Due to the reduced visibility imposed by high levels of integration, testing for parametric specifications are becoming more and more complex. To offset the yield loss resulting from process variability effects and reliability issues in RF circuits, the use of self-healing/self-tuning mechanisms will be imperative. Such self-healing is typically implemented as a test/self-test and self-tune procedure and is applied post-manufacture. To enable this, simple test routines that can accurately diagnose complex performance parameters of the RF circuits need to be developed first. After diagnosing the performance of a complex RF system appropriate compensation techniques need to be developed to increase or restore the system performance. Moreover, the test, diagnosis and compensation approach should be low-cost with minimal hardware and software overhead to ensure that the final product is economically viable for the manufacturer. The main components of the thesis are as follows: 1) Low-cost specification testing of advanced radio frequency front-ends: Methodologies are developed to address the issue of test cost and test time associated with conventional production testing of advanced RF front-ends. The developed methodologies are amenable for performing self healing of RF SoCs. Test generation algorithms are developed to perform alternate test stimulus generation that includes the artifacts of test signal path such as response capture accuracy, load-board DfT etc. A novel cross loop-back methodology is developed to perform low cost system level specification testing of multi-band RF transceivers. A novel low-cost EVM testing approach is developed for production testing of wireless 802.11 OFDM front-ends. A signal transformation based model extraction technique is developed to compute multiple RF system level specifications of wireless front-ends from a single data capture. The developed techniques are low-cost and facilitate a reduction in the overall contribution of test cost towards the manufacturing cost of advanced wireless products. 2)Analog tuning methodologies for compensating wireless RF front ends: Methodologies for performing low-cost self tuning of multiple impairments of wireless RF devices are developed. This research considers for the first time, multiple analog tuning parameters of a complete RF transceiver system (transmitter and receiver) for tuning purposes. The developed techniques are demonstrated on hardware components and behavioral models to improve the overall yield of integrated RF SoCs.

In den durchgeführten Versuchsreihen wurden die Wasserabsorption sowie die Gas- und Wasserpermeabilität sowohl an gerissenen als auch rissfreien Prüfkörpern aus textilbewehrtem Beton (TRC) untersucht. Eine deutliche Steigerung der Wasseraufnahme bei Proben mit unbeschichteten Textilien konnte mit Zunahme der Garnfeinheit beobachtet werden. Bei den gerissenen Proben besteht eine ausgeprägte Abhängigkeit der Transportraten von Flüssigkeiten und Gasen zu den relevanten Risscharakteristika (kumulative Risslänge, Rissbreite). Weiterhin sind Selbstheilungseffekte von feinen Rissen infolge einer zyklischen Wasserbeaufschlagung beobachtet worden. Hierbei kam es zu einer deutlichen Reduzierung der Transportraten sowohl für Wasser als auch für Gase. Eine speziell entwickelte Permeabilitätsmesskammer zur Durchführung von In- Situ-Messungen ermöglicht Untersuchungen zum Stofftransport unter axialer Zugbelastung bei verschiedenen Dehnungszuständen.