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Nature Publishing Group2024

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Drones hold promise to assist in civilian tasks. To realize this application, future drones must operate within large cities, covering large distances while navigating within cluttered urban landscapes. The increased efficiency of winged drones over rotary ...

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SPIDER is the 100 keV full-size Negative Ion Source prototype of the ITER Neutral Beam Injector, operating at Consorzio RFX in Padova, Italy. The largest Negative Ion Source in the world, SPIDER generates an RF driven plasma from which Deuterium or Hydroge ...

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The ITER Heating Neutral Beam (HNB) source prototype SPIDER (Source for the Production of Ions of Deuterium Extracted from a Radio frequency plasma), hosted at the Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF) in Padova, Italy, has recently started operating with evap ...

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A possible dwarf galaxy satellite-of-satellite problem in ?CDM

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Dark matter clusters on all scales, and it is therefore expected that even substructure should host its own substructure. Using the Extragalactic Distance Database, we searched for dwarf-galaxy satellites of dwarf galaxies, that is, satellite-of-satellite ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Ageing-aware battery discharge prediction with deep learning

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Microstrip patch antennas with broad beamwidth

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Microstrip antennas offer a broad set of advantages such as low profile, light weight, easy fabrication and low cost. As these are desirable or even critical for a broad range of applications, there has been a large interest for these antennas in the anten ...

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Stretchable High Response Piezoelectric Elastomers Based on Polable Polynorbornene Fillers in a Polydimethylsiloxane Matrix

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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Partial discharge localization in power transformers using acoustic time reversal

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The localization of partial discharges (PD) is important to monitor the conditioning of high voltage insulator materials. One of the key components in power grids is the high power transformer. Localization of PDs in these pieces of equipment can increase ...

Elsevier2022

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Partial discharge localization using time reversal: Application to gas insulated switchgear

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Elsevier2022

Preliminary Design of a High Current R&W TF Coil Conductor for the EU DEMO

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The Geometry and Charge of the Streamer Bursts Generated by Lightning Rods under the Influence of High Electric Fields

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An Inverse-Filter-Based Method to Locate Partial Discharge Sources in Power Transformers

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Partial discharge (PD) occurrence in power transformers can lead to irreparable damage to the power network. In this paper, the inverse filter (IF) method to localize PDs in power transformers is proposed. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the ...

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Hard and Soft Switching Losses in Power Converters: Role of Transistor Output Capacitance

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Australian Bushfires (2019-2020): Aerosol Optical Properties and Radiative Forcing

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In the present study, we present the aerosol optical properties and radiative forcing (RF) of the tropospheric and stratospheric smoke layers, observed by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite, during the ...

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