Shallow trench isolations (STI) process needs careful optimization of thermal annealings in order to minimize leakage currents which may result from excessive mechanical stresses. Due to its intrinsic three-dimensional structure, conventional 2D process simulator is no more relevant. This paper examines stress generation in STI using for the first time a 3D fully non-linear viscoelastic oxidati...

he increasing amount of heat generated by electronic devices is making devices thermal design and ways to combat heat more and more important issues to deal with. Therefore, we have developed a system able to evaluate thermally conductive materials such as conductive adhesives. The measurement technology is based on the steady-state method, and can evaluate heat transfer characteristics of moun...

Thermal mapping has been implemented since the late eighties to determine road ice susceptibility. It consists in measuring road pavement temperature along with some other atmospheric parameters to build a winter risk. Measurements are done using a vehicle embedded into the traffic in given road weather conditions. If the dew point temperature is lower than road surface temperature there is a r...

A critical element to the success of new propulsion technologies that enable reductions in fuel use is the integration of component thermal management technologies within a viable vehicle package. Vehicle operation requires vehicle thermal management systems capable of balancing the needs of multiple vehicle systems that may require heat for operation, require cooling to reject heat, or require...

We evaluate the large-scale energy budget of magnetic reconnection utilizing an analytical time-dependent impulsive reconnection model and a numerical 2-D MHD simulation. With the generalization to compressible plasma, we can investigate changes in the thermal, kinetic, and magnetic energies. We study these changes in three different regions: (a) the region defined by the outflowing plasma (out...

In electric vehicle applications, batteries are usually packed in modules to satisfy the energy and power demand. To facilitate the thermal management of a battery pack, a model-based observer could be designed to estimate the temperature distribution across the pack. Nevertheless, cost target in industry practice drives the number of temperature sensors in a pack to a number that is not suffic...

Physical geography continues to have complex relationships both with Geography as a whole and the natural sciences. At time when nature future of physical its sub-disciplines has been questioned, I explore these changing their impacts on discipline itself our collective ability understand address environmental crises. The exploration is through themes disciplinary shape institutional change, ge...

Contrary to claims about the irrelevance of philosophy for science, I argue that has had, and still has, far more influence on physics than is commonly assumed. maintain current anti-philosophical ideology had damaging effects fertility science. also suggest recent important empirical results, such as detection Higgs particle gravitational waves, failure detect supersymmetry where many expected...