Your road map for meeting today's digital testing challenges Today, digital logic devices are common in products that impact public safety, including applications in transportation and human implants. Accurate testing has become more critical to reliability, safety, and the bottom line. Yet, as digital systems become more ubiquitous and complex, the challenge of testing them has become more diffic…
This book was written to arm engineers qualified and knowledgeable in the area of VLSI circuits with the essential knowledge they need to get into this exciting field and to help those already in it achieve a higher level of proficiency. Few people truly understand how a large chip is developed, but an understanding of the whole process is necessary to appreciate the importance of each part of it …
Presenting unified coverage of the design and modeling of smart micro- and macrosystems, this book addresses fabrication issues and outlines the challenges faced by engineers working with smart sensors in a variety of applications. Part I deals with the fundamental concepts of a typical smart system and its constituent components. Preliminary fabrication and characterization concepts are introduce…
Advances in computer technology and in the development of modern microwave test instruments over the past decade have given electrical engineers, researchers and university students a number of new approaches to study microwave components, devices and circuits. Vector network analyser (VNA) is a valuable tool for providing fast and accurate characterisation of microwave components and devices for …
Following a semi-quantitative approach, this book presents a summary of the basic concepts, with examples and applications, and reviews recent developments in the study of optical properties of condensed matter systems. Key Features: Covers basic knowledge as well as application topics Includes theory, experimental techniques and current and developing applications Timely and useful contribution t…
This volume is part of the Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceeding (CESP) series. This series contains a collection of papers dealing with issues in both traditional ceramics (i.e., glass, whitewares, refractories, and porcelain enamel) and advanced ceramics. Topics covered in the area of advanced ceramic include bioceramics, nanomaterials, composites, solid oxide fuel cells, mechanical propert…
For very high voltage or very high current applications, the power industry still relies on thyristor-based Line Commutated Conversion (LCC), which limits the power controllability to two quadrant operation. However, the ratings of self-commutating switches such as the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) and Integrated Gate-Commutated Thyristor (IGCT), are reaching levels that make the techno…
A comprehensive review of analytical signal processing techniques applied to power systems and power quality applications. This reference book is unique in addressing time-varying waveform and harmonic distortions. It details many different approaches, pooling cutting edge material from university lecturers and practising power engineers to provide a wide spectrum of expertise. Divided into clear …
Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks! Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless sensor networks. The authors give an overview of the state-of-the-art, putting all the individual solutions into perspective with one and other. Numerous practical examples, case studies and illustrations demonstrate t…
Kernel methods have long been established as effective techniques in the framework of machine learning and pattern recognition, and have now become the standard approach to many remote sensing applications. With algorithms that combine statistics and geometry, kernel methods have proven successful across many different domains related to the analysis of images of the Earth acquired from airborne a…
В настоящее время при проведении сплошных рубок после механизированной заготовки древесины на лесосеках остается большое количество древесной биомассы, под которой понимают остатки деревьев (сучья, ветви, вершины, куски стволовой древесины, пни, корни), образующиеся в процессе заготовки древесины на лесосеке и утратившие частично или полностью потребительскую стоимость исходного сырья. Современное…
Учебник «Производство гидротехнических работ» отражает специфику основных видов гидротехнических работ, встречающихся при строительстве речных гидротехнических и гидроэнергетических сооружений различного назначения (плотины, дамбы, гидроэлектростанции, каналы, гидротехнические тоннели и др.). В первой части учебника рассмотрены вопросы производства земляных и бетонных работ, а также общие вопросы …
В монографии рассматриваются вопросы восстановления и реставрации памятников архитектуры, выполненных из керамического кирпича, на примере Вологодской области: приведены результаты натурных обследований каменных памятников архитектуры XVI – нач. ХХ вв., результаты физико-механических испытаний кирпичной кладки и причины ее разрушения, а также представлены составы реставрационного кирпича, кладочно…
This proceedings issue contains a collection of 11 papers presented during the 33rd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January, 2009. Papers in this proceedings were presented from one of the three symposia listed below: Symposium 6 – Key Materials and Technologies for Efficient Direct Thermal-to-Electrical Conversion; Symposium 11 – Symposium on Advanced Dielectrics, Pi…
В 2006 г. вышел первый том третьего издания учебника «Строительство атомных электростанций». В этом томе основное внимание было уделено вопросам, касающимся технологий АС, и впервые рассмотрены строительные аспекты проблемы вывода из эксплуатации блоков АС, выработавших свой ресурс. В настоящем учебнике (издание второе) отражены современные тенденции развития атомной энергетики, включая все стадии…