In order to guarantee security and stable operation of electric vehicle, it is necessary to on-line estimation for the state of charge (SOC) of batteries. The power battery is a complex nonlinear system, and Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBF NN) has advantages in solving nonlinear problems, so the model of on-line SOC estimation based on RBF NN is proposed. In order to improve the predi...

In this paper, a new energy harvesting technology using stray electric field of an electric power line is presented. It is found that energy can be harvested and stored in the storage capacitor that is connected to a cylindrical aluminum foil wrapped around a commercial insulated 220 V power line. The average current flowing into 47 μF storage capacitor is about 4.53 μA with 60 cm long cylindri...

Investigations on the optimization of feed structures for exciting the slotted line antenna for high-density plasma production are presented. Each feed structure used (except the direct feed) excites a preferred component of the wave electric/magnetic field. It is seen that the efficacy of plasma production using the different feeds depends directly on the relative importance of the field compo...

We developed a method to fabricate a periodic array of three-dimensional crescent-like holes (3DCLH) via an inverted hemispherical colloidal lithography. It is found that there exists an extraordinary optical transmission in this non-planar perforated periodic array of 3DCLH when the electric field of the incident light is perpendicular to the cross-line of the crescent-like hole. This extraord...

We discuss the physical nature of elementary singularities arising in the complexified Maxwell field extended into complex spacetime, i.e., in Lanczos-Newman electrodynamics. We show that the translation of the world-line of a bare electric-monopole singularity into imaginary space is adding a magnetic-dimonopole component to it, so that it may be interpreted as a pseudo-scalar pion-proton inte...

Single-molecule studies often require that molecules be well-spaced so that their individual spectral features can be discriminated. Hettich et al. (p. 385; see the cover and the Perspective by Orrit) show that by using a nearby scanning probe tip to supply a local electric field and induce Stark shifts, molecules of terrylene, embedded in a p-terphenyl crystal, that are only 12 nanometers apar...