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Performance-On-Demand Mems (Podmems): Electrical Control Of Effective Mass, Damping, And Stiffness, Shehrin Sayed
Performance-On-Demand Mems (Podmems): Electrical Control Of Effective Mass, Damping, And Stiffness, Shehrin Sayed
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We propose the use of electrostatic force feedback to control the stiffness, damping, or mass of MEMS. If feedback forces are proportional to sensed displacement, velocity, or acceleration of a MEMS proof mass, then feedback can be used to increase or decrease the apparent stiffness, damping, and or mass of the MEMS. Such feedback can be used to compensate for process variations, packaging stress, thermal drift, viscous damping, etc. Prior efforts by others include position or velocity based feedback for modifying frequency, bandwidth, quality factor, or sensitivity of resonators. We present a means of quantitative control of stiffness, damping, and …
Effects Of Blood Flow On The Heating Of Cardiac Stents Due To Radio Frequency Fields, Nate Ian Elder
Effects Of Blood Flow On The Heating Of Cardiac Stents Due To Radio Frequency Fields, Nate Ian Elder
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A safety concern during MRI scans with implanted medical devices is heating induced by the incident RF field. This research was performed to better understand the heating of cardiac stents during MRI. Heating of cardiac stents tends to occur at their ends. The temperature rise will be affected by blood flow through the lumen of the stent. In this work, an experiment was performed to simulate heating of a cardiac stent in the presence of blood flow during exposure to the electric field induced by a 64 MHz magnetic field, which corresponds to MRI at 1.5 T. The test procedure …
Autonomous Orientation And Geolocation Via Celestial Objects, Cheng Liu
Autonomous Orientation And Geolocation Via Celestial Objects, Cheng Liu
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Based on a hemispherical sensor geometry, a novel celestial navigation system is developed to use celestial objects to determine the absolute location and orientation information without the aid of satellites via two different approaches.
The first approach employs a hemispherical arrangement of light intensity sensors to determine the vector to the dominant light source. We present the sensing system to measure the sun vector via least squares method and achieve the application of a low-cost, small-sized solar compass. The system is shown to work well under ideal conditions but is susceptible to noise and uncertainties in some situations.
The second …
Time Domain Simulation Of Novel Photovoltaic Materials, Haejun Chung
Time Domain Simulation Of Novel Photovoltaic Materials, Haejun Chung
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Thin-film silicon-based solar cells have operated far from the Shockley- Queisser limit in all experiments to date. Novel light-trapping structures, however, may help address this limitation. Finite-difference time domain simulation methods offer the potential to accurately determine the light-trapping potential of arbitrary dielectric structures, but suffer from materials modeling problems. In this thesis, existing dispersion models for novel photovoltaic materials will be reviewed, and a novel dispersion model, known as the quadratic complex rational function (QCRF), will be proposed. It has the advantage of accurately fitting experimental semiconductor dielectric values over a wide bandwidth in a numerically stable fashion. Applying …