A novel adaptive beamforming algorithm against large direction-of-arrival (DOA) mismatch without using optimization toolboxes is proposed. In contrast to previous works, this new beamformer employs two reconstructed matrices, the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix and the desired signal-plus-noise covariance matrix, instead of their real sample covariance matrix, respectively. These reco...

Thermal energy storage (TES) is capable to reduce the demand of conventional energy sources for two reasons: First, they prevent the mismatch between the energy supply and the power demand when generating electricity from renewable energy sources. Second, utilization of waste heat in industrial processes by thermal energy storage reduces the final energy consumption. This review focuses mainly ...

The demand for power keeps rising with rapid economic development and growth of industrialization. The frequent mismatch created between demand and supply can be mitigated by the use of energy buyback programs. This papermodels a buy-back programusing a periodic review joint pricing and inventory model, incorporating compensations and setup cost over finite planning horizons. It is shown that a...

We present complete axiomatizations of weak hypercongruence in the nite fragment of the fusion calculus, an extension and simpliication of the-calculus. We treat both the full fusion calculus and the subcalculus without mismatch operators. The axiomatizations are obtained from the laws for hyperequivalence and adding so called tau-laws. These are similar to the well known tau-laws for CCS and t...

We report a femtosecond intracavity-frequency-doubled optical parametric oscillator that employs a single KTiOAsO crystal for both parametric generation and frequency doubling. This device generates a yellow output beam at 575 nm with 39.4% power conversion efficiency when synchronously pumped by a femtosecond Ti : sapphire laser at a wavelength of 796 nm. An intracavity retarder is employed to...

We study experimentally and theoretically the Čerenkov-type second-harmonic generation in a one-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal. We demonstrate that the power of emitted second-harmonic can be enhanced 270 times by varying the angle of incidence of the fundamental beam such that the reciprocal lattice vector of the crystal can be used to compensate for the phase mismatch in the transvers...

This paper presents a comparative evaluation of the proportional–integral, sliding mode and fuzzy logic controllers for applications to power converters. The mismatch between the characteristics which lead to varying performance is outlined. This paper also demonstrates certain similarities of both the fuzzy logic controller and sliding mode controller. Sensitivity of these controllers to suppl...

We demonstrate the first synchronously in-well pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL). Depending on the cavity mismatch, laser pulses with a duration from 1 ps to 7 ps at a repetition rate of 76 MHz were generated directly from the laser at 860 nm. The application of extra-cavity pulse compression further shortened the pulse to a duration of 210 fs providing a peak powe...

Transport of photo-carriers across the aligned carbon nanotubes and silicon (CNT/Si) interface determines cell performance. It is revealed that S-shaped current-voltage characters are generated due to the mismatch between the generation and transportation of photo-carriers, which can be eliminated by tuning the light intensity and CNT coverage on the Si surface, with the power conversion effici...