Eco‐friendly polypropylene power cable insulation: Present status and perspective

Lightning Impulse Ageing of Hv Cable Insulation

Lightning impulses can lead to accelerated ageing of extruded cables. Electrical behaviour of a dielectric material when experiencing a lightning impulse is different to that for DC or power frequency applied voltages. Pre-designed shaped HDPE material samples have been manufactured using a mould tool. The samples then have been electrically aged using an impulse generator. A real-time software...

Lateral flow immunoassay: Present status, trends and future perspective in diseases detection

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Improved Lead-Free Wire and Cable Insulation Performance Using Nanocomposites

Living-donor liver transplantation: present status and future perspective.

About 15 years have passed since the first liver transplant from a living donor (living donor liver transplantation: LDLT), and the status of the procedure has since been established as a standard cure for end-stage liver disease in Japan where liver transplantation (LTx) from deceased donors has not yet been accepted. However, the following problems are surfacing with the increase in the numbe...

Present Status and Trends of Power Semiconductor Devices

The curtain has been raised on new century. Prior to discussing the present status and trends of power semiconductor devices, allow us to briefly review Fuji Electric’s history with power devices. The semiconductor device was invented and developed in the latter half of the 20th century. When Shockley, Brattain, and Bardeen invented a transistor in 1948, they did not think that this transistor ...