The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Recent advances in solar thermoelectric generator (STEG) performance have raised their prospect as a potential technology to convert solar energy into electricity. This paper presents an analysis of thin-film STEGs. Properties and geometries of the devices are lumped into two p...

We present a tool for the automatic procedural generation of a single-string Chinese-style knot that resembles any arbitrary input 3D model. We call this tool Knotty.

A strategy to control the electrical charge is developed to achieve high energy density of soft dielectric elastomer generators for energy harvesting. The strategy is analytically shown and experimentally demonstrated to produce the highest energy density ever reported for a soft generator.

These lecture notes address materials and structures issues associated with the MIT Microfabricated gas turbine engine. An overview of the project and the performance goals is provided. These are translated into requirements for the materials and structural design. Particular emphasis is provided on the approaches taken to designing with brittle materials at low temperatures and designing with ...

A USRP-BASED FLEXIBLE GNSS SIGNAL RECORDING AND PLAYBACK SYSTEM: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND STUDY by Ruihui Di Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals are often subjected to both manmade and natural interferences such as RF jamming, ionosphere scintillation, multipath, and signal anomaly. In order to achieve desired navigation application performances, advanced receiver processing or...

nowadays, economic load dispatch between generation units with least cost involved is one of the most important issues in utilizing power systems. in this paper, a new method i.e. water cycle algorithm (wca) which is similar to other intelligent algorithm and is based on swarm, is employed in order to solve the economic load dispatch problem between power plants. wca is used to solve complicate...