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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Embedded power"”.
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Embedded Power Active Contact Lens
… a CBC005 5µAh thin film battery by Cymbet as a power source. A custom IC was designed using the On Semiconductor CMOS C5 0.6 µm process to manage the battery and drive the display. A printed single element display using electrochromic ink was chosen as it is able to indicate the user when …
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Integrated Thermal Management Strategies for Embedded Power Electronic Modules
… require efficient conversion of electrical power from one form to another. Electrical power is used world wide at the rate of approximately 12 billion kW per hour. The Center for Power Electronics Systems at Virginia Tech was established with a vision to develop an integrated systems …
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Experimental analysis and modelling of an information embedded power system
As power industry enters the new century, powerful driving forces, uncertainties and new functions are compelling electric utilities to make dramatic changes in their information communication infrastructure. Expanding network services such as real time measurement and monitoring are also driving …
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A Study of Remote Area Internet Access with Embedded Power Generation
… the alternatives to provide Internet access with embedded power generation in remote areas. The objective is to provide a screening tool for policy makers to analyze possible telecom and power alternatives. Results from the study demonstrate the technical alternatives to providing sustainable …
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Double-Sided Liquid Cooling for Power Semiconductor Devices Using Embedded Power Technology
Power electronics is a constantly growing and demanding technical field. Consumer demand and developing technologies have made the improvement of power density a primary emphasis of research for this area. Power semiconductors present some of the major challenges for increasing system level power …
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Design and Fabrication Techniques of Devices for Embedded Power Active Contact Lens
… signal. The contact lens consisted of an embedded antenna providing communication with a 2.4GHz system, as well as inductive charging at an operating frequency of 13.56 MHz. The lens utilized a CBC005 5<em>µ</em>Ah thin film battery by Cymbet and a manufactured graphene super capacitor as …
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Violent Actors and Embedded Power: Exploring the Evolving Roles of Dons in Jamaica
… don is a non-state actor who wields considerable power and control inside that nation's garrison communities. A don is a male figure, usually from the community in which he plays a leadership role. Garrisons in Jamaica have often emerged as neighborhoods that are don-ruled shadow versions of the …
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Assessment of Thermal Behavior and Development of Thermal Design Guidelines for Integrated Power Electronics Modules
… need for the introduction of high reliability power electronics in converting the raw form of electricity into efficient electricity for these applications is uprising. One of the most common failures in power electronics is temperature related failure such as overheating. To address the issue …
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"But I want to teach?": A critical discourse analysis of the 2018 Funza Lushaka Bursary Agreement Form
… what extent does the discourse(s) it uses exert power over its applicants? The research approach adopted for the study is qualitative. The Funza Lushaka Bursary Agreement Form is analysed using Norman Fairclough's theory of critical discourse analysis and Michel Foucault's theories on embedded …
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Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn
… thesis I examine how race- and class-based power structures are conceptualized and actualized in the virtual sphere. The Internet as an “imagined community” upholds the historically embedded power structures that perpetuate deeply-rooted American hegemonic ideals as they relate to race and …
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Thermal and Electrical Considerations for the Design of Highly-Integrated Point-of-Load Converters
DC/DC Power converter design has been following a trend of reducing size while also increasing performance for the last several years. This push for higher power output and smaller footprint and profile requires integration and higher switching frequencies in order to continue. Higher frequencies …
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Race, power, history, and justice in America
… of formal racial inequality. I offer a theory of power, historically evolved socially embedded power. The theory states that racial inequality is to be explained in the first instance by the way historical racial norms become embedded in practices and processes of path dependent institutions, …
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Optimising AC electric railway power flows with power electronic control
… devices, is able to control the reactive power drawn from the overhead line by each equipment. If the conditions at each locomotive or train could be fed back to a central control point, it is possible for a centrally located controller to calculate optimal values for the reactive power in …
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Modular Photovoltaic (PV) Step-up Converter With A Coupled Power Balancing Scheme for DC-Distributed System
… along with a continual decrease in cost. A high-power PV energy conversion system typically consists of a medium voltage (MV) grid that collects power from individual PV arrays. In a MV Direct Current (DC) distributed grid architecture, since the output voltage of the PV array is significantly …
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The Globalization of Cosmetic Surgery: Examining BRIC and Beyond
… a result, clear patterns emerge in regards to: embedded power structures related to racism and war; the results of Western interests rapidly opening countries’ markets to high media and corporate influence—especially in the wake of political oppression and austerity; the exacerbation of …
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Technology for Planar Power Semiconductor Devices Package with Improved Voltage Rating
The high-voltage SiC power semiconductor devices have been developed in recent years. They cause an urgent in the need for the power semiconductor packaging to have not only low interconnect resistance, less noise, less parasitic oscillations, improved reliability, and better thermal management, …
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Integrated Thermal Design and Optimization Study for Active Integrated Power Electronic Modules (IPEMs)
… is one of many critical tasks in the design of power electronic systems. It has become increasingly important as a result of the introduction of high power density and integrated modules. It has also been realized that higher temperatures do affect reliability due to a variety of physical …
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Knowledge in the making : embodying transdisciplinary moments on organic agriculture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… by science and society and reflects their embedded power relations, transdisciplinary research needs to be open to different interpretations, and reflexive towards the unequal distribution of resources, accountability, and responsibility. By linking these two lines of thought, I examine the …
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Investigation of High-density Integrated Solution for AC/DC Conversion of a Distributed Power System
With the development of information technology, power management for telecom and computer applications become a large market for power supply industries. To meet the performance and reliability requirement, distributed power system (DPS) is widely adopted for telecom and computer systems, because …
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Strategies and systems for modelling, real-time control and data acquisition in magnetic confinement fusion [Strategie e sistemi per la modellazione, il controllo e l'acquisizione dati in real-time nella fusione a confinamento magnetico]
… teorica, l'implementazione di sistemi embedded e l'apprendimento automatico, supportando funzioni chiave nella supervisione e nella diagnostica in tempo reale. La ricerca è finanziata nell'ambito del PNRR, Missione 4, Componente 2 “Dalla Ricerca all'Impresa”– Investimento 3.3 …