A HBC derivative bearing six branched, space-demanding, alkyl side chains containing ether linkages has been synthesized and its thermotropic properties were investigated by polarization optical microscopy (POM) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). To our surprise, this molecule can respond to electric fields, and the influences of alternating current (AC) and directing current (DC) ele...

The influence of the electric field dependence of the differential conductivity on superconducting state stability in multifilamentary superconducting composites is studied theoretically. The obtained stability criterion allows one to determine the upper limit of the values of transport current and background electric field in the superconductor. To illustrate the theory, the superconducting st...

We present intermediary results using conventional differential SAR interferometry (DInSAR) in a lignite open pit mining area in Germany. All available ENVISAT and ERS-2 scenes since 2002 were used. Due to the area of interest's rural character and vegetation zone, temporal decorrelation is a limiting factor for C-band based interferometric analyses. Additionally a network of twelve Corner Refl...

Arch shaped microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have been used as mechanical memories, micro-relays, micro-valves, optical switches, and digital micro-mirrors. A bi-stable structure is characterized by a multivalued load deflection curve. Here, the symmetry breaking, the snap-through instability, and the pullin instability of a sinusoidal shaped MEMS under static and dynamic electric loads ha...

A novel method for the reduction of subthreshold slope below the room-temperature Boltzmann limit of 60 mV/dec for a field-effect transistor based on negative differential capacitance is proposed. This effect uses electric field induced electrostriction of a piezoelectric gate barrier of the transistor. The mechanism amplifies the internal surface potential over the applied gate voltage. This i...

The stability control of two separate electric vehicle (EV) motors by using only single five-leg inverter (FLI) is the motivation of this study. This paper proposes an electric differential (ED) in a FLI to serve dual separate induction motor (IM) drive-based wheels of an EV traction drive system. FLI is developed to replace the two normal three-phase voltage source inverters that need to indep...

Electromagnetic descriptor models are models which lead to differential algebraic equations (DAEs). Some of these models mostly arise from electric circuit and power networks. The most frequently used modeling technique in the electric network design is the modified nodal analysis (MNA) which leads to differential algebraic equations in descriptor form. DAEs are known to be very difficult to so...