Pulse shape analyzers have been introduced in commercial liquid scintillation counters, such as the WaIlac 1220 QuantulusTM and 1219 SM, enabling separation of alpha particle spectra from other types of radiation in a single measurement and making ultra sensitive alpha counting possible. Background count rates as low as one count per day for 214Po in a teflon vial are achievable while still ret...

Coal is a major source of energy. The available Indian coal quality is very poor having very high ash content and low calorific value. Indian coal generates a large quantity of ash as a by-product of combustion. The objectives of the present study were to reduce the ash content of coal to produce ultra-clean coal. The coal was treated wi...

Abstract. In this paper we discuss the anti-GZK effect that arises in the framework of the diffusive propagation of Ultra High Energy (UHE) protons. This effect consists in a jump-like increase of the maximum distance from which UHE protons can reach the observer. The position of the jump is independent of the Intergalactic Magnetic Field (IMF) strength and depends only on the energy losses of ...

SDR enables cost-effective multi-mode terminals but still suffers from significant energy penalty when compared to dedicated hardware solutions. At system level, this energy bottleneck can be leveraged capitalizing on heterogeneous MPSOC platforms where specific engines are dedicated to classes of functions with similar computation characteristics and duty cycle. In burst-based communication as...

Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is a critical block of the sensing unit of an implant and for measurements of various biophysiological signals, such as Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Electromyogram (EMG) that covers the distinct portions of the frequency spectrum and signal bandwidths. ADC consumes about 30~35% of the total power of the device which is very high. Henc...

GZKFast is a low-cost astrophysical event generator designed to simulate photohadron processes resulting from ultra high energy cosmic ray fluxes. GZKFast is an easy to use event generator which specifically addresses issues relevant to cosmogenic neutrinos and the ultra high energy (UHE) neutrino spectrum. GZKFast injects UHE particles into a simulated cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a...

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We demonstrate the RocketLogger, a mobile data logger designed for prototyping energy harvesting IoT devices. Novel IoT applications require new dataloggers with a highly increased dynamic range for current measurement to accommodate both ultra-low sleep currents of few nanoamperes as well as wireless communication currents in the range of hundreds of milliamperes. In parallel to ultra-low curr...

Mobile, embedded, and remote systems require the ability to run critical, high-performance operations for long durations of time. The available energy for such applications is often limited by size constraints, cost, or inconvenience. Thus, the ability to design circuitry which can operate at low supply voltages and with little power consumption is critical for such applications. An important c...