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Materials Science#Corrosion, Thin Films, Germanium, Copper, Oxidation🔬 ResearchAnalyzed: Jan 3, 2026 15:48

Germanium Sublayer Improves Corrosion Resistance of Ultrathin Copper Films

Published:Dec 30, 2025 12:30
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This paper investigates the corrosion behavior of ultrathin copper films, a crucial topic for applications in electronics and protective coatings. The study's significance lies in its examination of the oxidation process and the development of a model that deviates from existing theories. The key finding is the enhanced corrosion resistance of copper films with a germanium sublayer, offering a potential cost-effective alternative to gold in electromagnetic interference protection devices. The research provides valuable insights into material degradation and offers practical implications for device design and material selection.
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“The $R$ and $ρ$ of $Cu/Ge/SiO_2$ films were found to degrade much more slowly than similar characteristics of $Cu/SiO_2$ films of the same thickness.”

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Research#llm🔬 ResearchAnalyzed: Dec 25, 2025 09:28

Data-Free Pruning of Self-Attention Layers in LLMs

Published:Dec 25, 2025 05:00
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This paper introduces Gate-Norm, a novel method for pruning self-attention layers in large language models (LLMs) without requiring any training data. The core idea revolves around the \
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“Pruning $8$--$16$ attention sublayers yields up to $1.30\times$ higher inference throughput while keeping average zero-shot accuracy within $2\%$ of the unpruned baseline.”

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