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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Electrical-thermal"”.
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Electrical, Thermal, and Machining Behaviour of Injection Moulded Polymeric CNT Nanocomposites
… thermoplastics, resulting from their superior electrical, thermal and mechanical properties. Due to the desirable properties of CNT/polymer composites and their wide application in technological devices, these materials have attracted a great deal of attention from both academia and industry. A …
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Electrical, Thermal, and EMI Designs of High-Density, Low-Profile Power Supplies
… low-profile power supplies, including the electrical, thermal, and EMI aspects. Emphasis is placed on forward and flyback converters. The efficiency improvements of employing synchronous rectification are theoretically derived and experimentally verified in forward and flyback converters. …
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TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF GRAPHENE IN ADVANCED CMOS INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY
… of worldwide interest. With its unprecedented electrical, thermal and mechanical properties, graphene is ideally suited for back-end of line (BEOL) technology to boost the performance of on-chip copper (Cu) interconnects. However, the lack of BEOL compatible methods has stymied the true …
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Input-Pattern-Independent Estimation of Peak Current, Peak Power Dissipation, and Maximum Voltage Variation in the Power Distribution Network of VLSI Circuits
… estimation of the worst-case attributes of the electrical/thermal interactions and the internal stresses is required. In this dissertation, the problem of estimating the worst-case electrical/thermal interactions and the internal stresses is formulated as the maximization of weighted switching …
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Performance analysis and modelling of hybrid photovoltaic-thermal solar panels
<p>A photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) panel was constructed, tested, and modelled using both MATLAB and TRNSYS. During the experimental testing, which took place on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus in Rolla, Missouri; two identical PVT panels were tested alongside two PV panels to …
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Low-Temperature Sintering of Nanoscale Silver Paste for Semiconductor Device Interconnection
… the low-temperature sintered silver has better electrical, thermal and overall thermomechanical properties compared with the existing semiconductor device interconnecting materials such as solder alloys and conductive epoxies. After solving the organic burnout problems associated with the …
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Integrated Electro-thermal Design Methodology in Distributed Power Systems (DPS)
Although suitable CAD tools for thermal and electrical analyses in power electronic systems are available, traditional stand-alone simulation method seldom takes into consideration of the inter-dependency of semiconductor device power loss and junction temperature in an iterative process. However …
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NANOSCALE ENERGY TRANSPORT IN PHOTOVOLTAIC AND THERMOELECTRIC NANOMATERIALS
… applications due to the size-tuned electrical, thermal, and optical properties. For example, they can be size-tuned to emit and absorb light in a specific wavelength range. Their small size also makes multiple exciton generation possible in certain situations. However, their device …
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Lorentz force actuator and carbon fiber co-winding design, construction and characterization
… co-wound coil were then tested to compare their electrical, thermal, and mechanical performance. In a needle-free injection application, the cowound coil demonstrated improved performance over the conventional coil configuration. The carbon fiber coil is lighter by 3.75 ± 0.155 grams, increases …
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Physics-informed gated recurrent unit neural networks model for surface temperature estimation of Lithium-ion batteries
Thermal management is vital for optimizing Lithium-Ion Battery (LIB) performance. Accurately measuring individual cell temperatures using physical sensors poses significant cost and complexity challenges particularly in packs containing hundreds or thousands of cells. State-of-the-art estimation …
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Characterization of composites with aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as reinforcement
… nanotubes' (CNTs) superlative combination of electrical, thermal, and especially mechanical properties make them ideal candidates for composite reinforcement. Nanocomposites and hybrid composite architectures employing traditional advanced composites and CNTs offer significant potential …
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Increasing carbon nanotube forest density
The outstanding mechanical, electrical, thermal, and morphological properties of individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) open up exciting potential applications in a wide range of fields. One such application is replacing the standard activated carbon electrode in electrochemical double layer (EDLC) …
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Electro-Thermal Codesign in Liquid Cooled 3D ICs: Pushing the Power-Performance Limits
… at the same time, compatible with the existing electrical structure such as TSVs. These configurations can achieve up to 70% cooling power savings compared with the configuration without any optimization. Based on these configurations, we then develop a micro-fluidic cooling based dynamic …
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Desktop systems for manufacturing carbon nanotube films by chemical vapor deposition
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) exhibit exceptional electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties that could potentially transform such diverse fields as composites, electronics, cooling, energy storage, and biological sensing. For the United States Navy, composites potentially provide a significant …
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Selective metallization and electronic self-healing for high performance carbon-based nanoelectronics
… due to their unique combinations of electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties. Specifically, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene have attracted great interest over the past decade in both the scientific and industrial communities for a variety of applications including …
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Design of 1.7 kV SiC MOSFET Switching-Cells for Integrated Power Electronics Building Block (iPEBB)
… common substrate concept that would serve as the electrical, thermal, and mechanical foundation for the converter. State-of-the-art organic direct-bonded copper (ODBC) is explored to serve as the material foundation for the common substrate. Multi-domain simulations are used to design the …
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An evaluation of continuous ultrasonic coagulation employing a ball-clay hydrosol
… of colloidal systems with chemical, mechanical, electrical, thermal, radiant, or ultrasonic energy. Two factors that govern coagulation in hydrosols are (1) probability or collision and (2) adhesion of the colloidal particles. In order to coalesce, particles must first collide. The intensity of …
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Optical and optoelectronic fiber devices
The ability to integrate materials with disparate electrical, thermal, and optical properties into a single fiber structure enabled the realization of fiber devices with diverse and complex functionalities. Amongst those, demonstrated first in our work, are the surface-emitting fiber laser, the …
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CNT-reinforced polymer nanocomposite by molecular dynamics simulations
… to their potential for exceptional mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical properties. The enhancement of ultimate mechanical properties of CNT reinforced polymer composites is governed not just by the properties of the two phases but by dispersion of the CNTs, interactions in the …
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An average modeling approach of hybrid power systems for use in mobile refrigeration applications
… unique to this hybrid application, including the thermal system interface, drive cycle response, and battery management, are introduced. The system topology is presented, including the hybrid power architecture, electrical-thermal system specifications, and the integrated model operation and …
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