Schottky barrier diodes can be used as direct detectors throughout the millimeterand submillimeterwave bands. When the diodes are optimized to have a low forward turn-on voltage, the detectors can achieve excellent frequency response and bandwidth, even with zero-bias. This paper reports on the characterization of VDI’s zerobias Schottky detectors. Responsivity typically ranges from 4,000 V/W a...

Abstract This paper presents an analytical model to quantify the measured noise in a cryogenic bolometer readout circuit. The includes contributions from bias resistors and sensor resistors, voltage current of amplifier, cable capacitance. parameters are empirically estimated using frequency domain analysis data indigenously developed Neutron Transmutation Doped (NTD) Ge sensors. is shown descr...

This paper investigates voltage fluctuations caused by the operation of battery energy storage (BES) units which provide frequency response (FR) and fast (FFR) services using a test network based on typical part United Kingdom (UK) mainland system. provides an overview current FR/FFR currently used in UK, summary their modes operation. Using DIgSILENT Powerfactory, introduces simple disturbance...

This chapter reviews recent advances in the identification of the structural elements of the permeability transition pore. The discovery that cyclosporin A (CsA) inhibits the pore proved instrumental. Various approaches indicate that CsA blocks the pore by binding to cyclophilin (CyP)-D. In particular, covalent labelling of CyP-D in situ by a photoactive CsA derivative has shown that pore ligan...

PURPOSE In the retina there is general agreement that blood flow adapts in response to different conditions of light and darkness including diffuse luminance flicker. By contrast, regulation of choroidal blood flow in response to different light conditions is still a matter of controversy. Thus, we investigated the effect of diffuse luminance flicker on choroidal and optic nerve head blood flow...

Flicker modulation sensitivity measurements made on high intensity orange steady backgrounds indicate that signals from short-wavelength sensitive cones (S-cones) have access to two pathways. At low S-cone adaptation levels the frequency response falls quickly with increasing frequency, but at higher adaptation levels it extends to much higher frequencies. At these higher S-cone adaptation leve...

This paper proposes a method to estimate the flicker severity index using the Hadamard transform. A weighting filter in the sequency domain is utilized for direct computation of the flicker index. The proposed method is compared with a flicker meter in the frequency domain that uses the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). It is seen by numerical simulations that the proposed method yields flicker sev...

Dark adaptation and the rise of cone flicker threshold (25 Hz) during dark adaptation were measured psychophysically in three patients with fundus flavimaculatus. The dark adaptation curve showed a delayed rod-cone break but a normal final rod threshold in all these patients. However, the rise of cone flicker threshold during dark adaptation was not delayed and also reached a normal final value...

We have studied psychophysically the characteristics of the postreceptoral stage of visual processing, using heterochromatic brightness matching (HBM) between 540 and 600 nm, and hue discrimination between 565 and 585 nm, under differing luminance flicker (0-30 Hz) and excitation purity (1.0-0.1) conditions. The HBM curves exhibit deeper minima around 575 nm with decreasing purity. The minimum ...