The authors propose “Disk-repeater” as a new structure alternative to the conventional resonator repeater. Disk-repeater has a simple structure comprised of just copper plates and wire, non-resonant structure. First, coupling coefficients are measured as functions of disk diameter and wire length to characterize the basic performance of Disk-repeater. It is explained by several experimental evi...

ELECTRIC utilities and end users of electric power are becoming increasingly concerned about meeting the growing energy demand. Seventy five percent of total global energy demand is supplied by the burning of fossil fuels. But increasing air pollution, global warming concerns, diminishing fossil fuels and their increasing cost have made it necessary to look towards renewable sources as a future...

This paper proposes an improved fault-tolerant control scheme for PWM inverter-fed induction motor-based electric vehicles. The proposed strategy deals with power switch (IGBTs) failures mitigation within a reconfigurable induction motor control. To increase the vehicle powertrain reliability regarding IGBT open-circuit failures, 4-wire and 4-leg PWM inverter topologies are investigated and the...

Unconventional machining process finds lot of application in aerospace and precision industries. It is preferred over other conventional methods because of the advent of composite and high strength to weight ratio materials, complex parts and also because of its high accuracy and precision. Usually in unconventional machine tools, trial and error method is used to fix the values of process para...

12 Combustion runs at 700 oC in a horizontal laboratory furnace were carried out on two 13 different electric wires (PVC and halogen-free wire). Tests were performed in the 14 presence and in the absence of the metal conductor of the wires. The analyses of the 15 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), chlorobenzenes (CBzs), chlorophenols 16 (CPhs), monoto octa-chlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and diben...

We developed a series of articles concerning epidemiologic research on potential health effects of electric and magnetic fields. Our goal was to identify methodological issues that have arisen through past studies of cancer, reproduction, and neurobehavioral outcomes in order to suggest strategies to extend knowledge. Following an overview of relevant physics and engineering principles, cancer ...

We report the absence of spin effects such as spin-galvanic effect, spin polarization and spin current under static electric field and inter-spin-subband absorption in 1D system with spin-orbit interaction of arbitrary form. It was also shown that the accounting for the direct interaction of electron spin with magnetic field violates this statement. The spin-orbit (SO) interaction in a 2D syste...

Innovations in semiconductor technology have provided us with an opportunity to examine devices with vertical and lateral dimensions less than 100 nm-comparable to the wavelength of the electron at the Fermi energy. At low temperature, the confinement and the coherence of the electronic motion on the scale of the electron wavelength give rise to gross deviations from classical charge transport ...

This paper presents the experimental observation of piezoelectric generation from a single ZnO wire/belt for illustrating a fundamental process of converting mechanical energy into electricity at nanoscale. By deflecting a wire/belt using a conductive atomic force microscope tip in contact mode, the energy is first created by the deflection force and stored by piezoelectric potential, and later...