Efficient resonant power conversion

Multi-resonant passive components for power conversion

Photonic crystal coupled plasmonic nanoparticle array for resonant enhancement of light harvesting and power conversion.

Photonic crystal coupled with plasmonic nanoparticle arrays to form a periodic plasmonic architecture was prepared by loading Au nanoparticles inside the inverse opal TiO(2) film. The visible and near infrared light absorption was increased by 62% and the overall light-to-electricity conversion yield was thus increased by 41% compared with the control test.

Ion and Plasma Thruster Test Console Based on Three-Phase Resonant Conversion Power Modules

A test console is described for operation of both high power Hall-effect thrusters (HETs) and ion thrusters. The console utilizes three-phase resonant DC conversion power modules. It is believed that three phase resonant conversion (3PRC) of electrical power is ideally suited for EP power systems, and will soon become the premier converter for flight applications. These converters produce the l...

Macroscopic Forces driven by Resonant Neutrino Conversion

We show that neutrino oscillations in matter are always accompanied by collective forces on the medium. This effect may produce interesting consequences for the background and the neutrino oscillations themselves. The force is maximal in the case of resonant neutrino conversion in the adiabatic regime. We study here the forces driven by νe − νμ,τ and νe − νs MSW conversion and shortly discuss t...

Resonant conversion of massless neutrinos in supernovae.

It has been noted for a long time that, in some circumstances, massless neutrinos may be mixed in the leptonic charged current. Conventional neutrino oscillation searches in vacuum are insensitive to this mixing. We discuss the effects of resonant massless-neutrino conversions in the dense medium of a supernova. In particular, we show how the detected ν̄e energy spectra from SN1987a and the supe...