the increase of cell temperature with increased irradiance is probably the mostsignificant disadvantage of using photovoltaic modules equipped with booster reflectors. the aimof this study is to investigate the possibility of improving the performance of a photovoltaic waterpumping system by using a booster reflector and to keep the temperature of pv panels at a lowlevel by cooling pv panels wi...

infection by m. tuberculosis can be demonstrated by tuberculin testing. on sequential ppd some person show a marked increase in the size of their skin reactions which may not be due to recent or past tuberculous infection. this phenomenon (booster effect) can occur as soon as a week after the initial test and persist for as long as a year. methods and materials: the purpose of this research is ...

This paper introduces a Design of dual reflector Cassegrain feed system antenna with suitable design aspects like smaller reflector and sub reflector diameter for higher sub reflector efficiency, lower Cassegrain blockage losses and desired illumination taper. Design parameters are computed from the simple and explicit analytical formulas. Design example is represented to differentiate the effi...

The high-frequency performance of the reflector antennas is mainly limited by the surface. It has been shown that distortions on different regions of the reflector surface can have different effects on the radiation performance. In other words, degradation of the radiation pattern due to the presence of surface distortions is sensitive to the location and behavior of the surface distortion prof...

A novel intensity-modulated optical fibre displacement sensor with convex reflector technology is described. A common form of the intensity-modulated optical fibre sensor performs its measurement by making use of a pair of straight optical fibres with a plane reflector. The reflected optical signal intensity changes as a function of change in displacement. This paper describes an alternative se...

In 1970, the Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover delivered a French-built laser reflector to the Moon. Although a few range measurements were made within three months of its landing, these measurements—and any that may have followed—are unpublished and unavailable. The Lunokhod 1 reflector was, therefore, effectively lost until March of 2010 when images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) provided ...

A key limitation for future Small Satellite communications and radar missions will be available antenna reflector aperture. Two types of reflectors are dominant for satellite RF systems today, rigid, single-piece reflectors and deployable mesh reflectors. Single-piece reflectors are limited to the aperture that fits inside a launch vehicle without packaging the reflective surface. Mesh reflecto...

The ALBA Booster is a synchrotron designed to accelerate electron beams from 100 MeV to 3GeV in a 3Hz cycle. The maximum pulse coming from the ALBA Linac provides 5 mA in the Booster. In order to check all the Booster sub-systems, a Booster pre-commissioning took place during two weeks in January 2010. This paper presents the Diagnostics elements installed in the ALBA Booster and our experience...

This paper presents the switched-beam slot antenna over the electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) reflector. This antenna is composed of two slot elements fed with phase difference and the EBG reflector, which is applied in order to realize the low profile structure. The radiation characteristics of this antenna are calculated using the FDTD method. The calculated results show that the antenna height ...