Electrical engineering

The Ideal Final Result introduces the TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving Process in a way that allows readers to make immediate use of its most basic concepts.

Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment examines the usage of lithium-ion batteries and cells within consumer, industrial and transportation products, and analyzes the potential hazards associated with their prolonged use.

Sol-Gel Processing for Conventional and Alternative Energy is a comprehensive source of information on the use of sol-gel processing in materials in energy systems, conversion, storage, and generation.

"e;Power System Coherency and Model Reduction"e; provides a comprehensive treatment for understanding interarea modes in large power systems and obtaining reduced-order models using the coherency concept and selective modal analysis method.

The Handbook of Service Description introduces an in-depth overview of service description efforts.

A large international conference on Advances in Intelligent Control and Innovative Computing was held in Hong Kong, March March 16-18, 2011, under the auspices of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2010).

Intelligent environments represent an emerging topic in research.

VLSI for Wireless Communication, Second Edition, an advanced level text book, takes a system approach starting with an overview of the most up to date wireless systems and the transceiver architecture available today.

Based on the highly successful second edition, this extended edition of SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features teaches all verification features of the SystemVerilog language, providing hundreds of examples to clearly explain the concepts and basic fundamentals.

In Next Generation Microchannel Heat Exchangers, the authors' focus on the new generation highly efficient heat exchangers and presentation of novel data and technical expertise not available in the open literature.

Control and Optimization Methods for Electric Smart Grids brings together leading experts in power, control and communication systems, and consolidates some of the most promising recent research in smart grid modeling, control and optimization in hopes of laying the foundation for future advances in this critical field of study.

Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production describes the principles and materials challenges for the conversion of sunlight into hydrogen through water splitting at a semiconducting electrode.

Given the widespread use of real-time multitasking systems, there are tremendous optimization opportunities if reconfigurable computing can be effectively incorporated while maintaining performance and other design constraints of typical applications.

The devices described in "e;Advanced MOS-Gated Thyristor Concepts"e; are utilized in microelectronics production equipment, in power transmission equipment, and for very high power motor control in electric trains, steel-mills, etc.

In Volume 6 of the Advances in Solar Energy we have specifically targeted for a review the rich experience of the Power Utilities.

Advances in Solar Energy in its fourth year has almost become routine in identifying important fields that warrant comprehensive reports, in assembling its contents and in preparing the typeset version; the final r~sult is now in front of you for your judgement.

Electrical Machines primarily covers the basic functionality and the role of electrical machines in their typical applications.

Electric Vehicle Integration into Modern Power Networks provides coverage of the challenges and opportunities posed by the progressive integration of electric drive vehicles.

Network monitoring serves as the basis for a wide scope of network, engineering and management operations.

Biomedical Engineering: Health Care Systems, Technology and Techniques is an edited volume with contributions from world experts.

Advanced Topics in Shannon Sampling and Interpolation Theory is the second volume of a textbook on signal analysis solely devoted to the topic of sampling and restoration of continuous time signals and images.

Manipulation using dextrous robot hands has been an exciting yet frustrating research topic for the last several years.

Much of that which is ordinal is modeled as analog.

This book is a result of the author's work which was initiated about a decade ago and which, in the meantime, has resulted in his Ph.

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This book was written for an introductory one-term course in probability.

A lithium-drifted germanium detector is a semiconductor de- vice which operates at liquid nitrogen temperature, and is used for detection of nuclear radiation, mostly gamma ray.

Two-dimensional materials created ab initio by the process of condensation of atoms, molecules, or ions, called thin films, have unique properties significantly different from the corresponding bulk materials as a result of their physical dimensions, geometry, nonequilibrium microstructure, and metallurgy.

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This book represents a compendium of the twenty most useful far-infrared (or submillimeter) lasers.

The roots of the project which culminates with the writing of this book can be traced to the work on logic synthesis started in 1979 at the IBM Watson Research Center and at University of California, Berkeley.

This volume contains the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Neutron Transmutation Doping of Silicon held in Copenhagen on August 27-29, 1980.

This book is concerned with the use of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) in the device and process development of Very-Large-Scale-Integrated Circuits (VLSI).

Routing of VLSI chips is an important, time consuming, and difficult problem.

There was a long felt need for this book in industrial and academic institutions.

Circuit simulation has been a topic of great interest to the integrated circuit design community for many years.

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The subject of modelling and application of stochastic processes is too vast to be exhausted in a single volume.

This book contains a selection of papers and articles in instrumentation previously pub- lished in technical periodicals and journals of learned societies.

This book has been written as part of a new series of scientific text-books being published by Plenum Publishing Company Limited.

Twenty-four years ago, Hellmut Fritzsche came to our laboratory to evaluate our work in amorphous materials.

We are very pleased to be asked to co-author this book for a variety of reasons, one of which was that it gave us further opportunity to work together.

Circuit simulation is widely used for the design of circuits, both discrete and integrated.

Recent years have seen silicon integrated circuits enter into an increasing number of technical and consumer applications, until they now affect everyday life, as well as technical areas.

Source coding theory has as its goal the characterization of the optimal performance achievable in idealized communication systems which must code an information source for transmission over a digital communication or storage channel for transmission to a user.

This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop on Analog Integrated Neural Systems held May 8, 1989, in connection with the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

This book is intended to be a working reference for electronic hardware de- signers who are interested in writing VHDL models.