Page I. Gate Drive Requirements ................................................................................1 I. A Impact of the impedance of the gate drive circuit on switching losses............1 I. B Impact of the gate drive impedance on noise sensitivity.................................2 I. C Impact of gate drive impedance on "dynamic latching" ..................................2 I. D U...

This paper proposes a theory for optimizing the power generated from stationary stochastic vibratory disturbances, using a resonant energy harvester. Although the theory is general, the target application of the paper concerns ocean wave energy harvesting. The control technique involves the use of a causal discrete-time feedback algorithm to dynamically optimize the power extracted from the wav...

One of the most important causes for reinforcing steel corrosion is the presence of chloride ions. They cause localised breakdown of the passive film that initially forms on steel as a result of the alkaline nature of the pore solution in concrete. The harmful chloride ions can be originated from the use of contaminated mix constituents or from the surrounding environment. The determination of ...

We derive theoretically the power division ratio (PDR) on multi-hop wireless power transfer (WPT) to two receivers coupling with two couplers. The derived expression suggests that the PDR can be controlled by adjusting the load resistance. However, the control range of PDR by adjusting the load resistance of one receiver is limited when a hop count to that receiver is odd number. Therefore we s...

An array antenna is generally designed by using the array factor. The designed antenna hasn’t been desired characteristics because the mutual coupling between elements isn’t taken into account for the design. In this paper a quantitative design method for an array antenna above the infinite ground plane is proposed. The fundamental idea of this method is the input impedance correction of each a...

We develop a new variant of the factorization method that can be used to detect inclusions in electrical impedance tomography from either absolute current-to-voltage measurements at a single, nonzero frequency or from frequency-difference measurements. This eliminates the need for numerically simulated reference measurements at an inclusion-free body and thus greatly improves the method’s robus...

A novel miniaturized design of a multiple slotted antenna is designed and simulation results are presented in this paper. The proposed antenna uses I, Uand inverted L-shaped slots in the radiation patch. The resonance frequencies can be controlled by adjusting the dimensions of the slots. The proposed antenna can meet the demand of WLAN, HIPERLAN/2 and radar applications. The key parameters lik...

AbstractIn this paper a design approach of circular microstrip patch antenna for dual frequency operation is described. The antenna dimensions are computed from the cavity model at fundamental frequency 2.1 GHz for TM110 mode. For better performance of the antenna, coaxial probe feed technique is used for excitation. Two parallel slots and another orthogonal slot are introduced to a conventiona...

A rigorous analysis method is provided for a rectangular slot antenna loaded by a dielectric hemisphere with double dielectric coatings. The method is an integral equation approach and the moment method solution is sought. The antenna input impedance and radiation patterns are obtained and compared with the case with a single dielectric coating layer. The bandwidth of the antenna is found to be...