TY - JOUR A1 - Hillgärtner, Michael T1 - Normative Regulations JF - ECPE Cluster Seminar EMC in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles : 18 May 2010, Fraunhofer Institute Erlangen Y1 - 2010 N1 - ECPE Workshop: EMC in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, 18/05/2010, Erlangen, Germany PB - European Center for Power Electronics CY - Nürnberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Göttsche, Joachim A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Schmitz, Stefan A1 - Sauerborn, Markus T1 - Solar Concentrating Systems Using Small Mirror Arrays JF - Journal of solar energy engineering N2 - The cost of solar tower power plants is dominated by the heliostat field making up roughly 50% of investment costs. Classical heliostat design is dominated by mirrors brought into position by steel structures and drives that guarantee high accuracies under wind loads and thermal stress situations. A large fraction of costs is caused by the stiffness requirements of the steel structure, typically resulting in ~ 20 kg/m² steel per mirror area. The typical cost figure of heliostats (figure mentioned by Solucar at Solar Paces Conference, Seville, 2006) is currently in the area of 150 €/m² caused by the increasing price of the necessary raw materials. An interesting option to reduce costs lies in a heliostat design where all moving parts are protected from wind loads. In this way, drives and mechanical layout may be kept less robust, thereby reducing material input and costs. In order to keep the heliostat at an appropriate size, small mirrors (around 10x10 cm²) have to be used, which are placed in a box with a transparent cover. Innovative drive systems are developed in order to obtain a cost-effective design. A 0,5x0,5 m² demonstration unit will be constructed. Tests of the unit are carried out with a high-precision artificial sun unit that imitates the sun’s path with an accuracy of less than 0.5 mrad and creates a beam of parallel light with a divergence of less than 4 mrad. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4000332 SN - 0199-6231 SN - 1528-8986 (eISSN) VL - 132 IS - 1 PB - ASME CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spelthahn, Heiko A1 - Schaffrath, Sophie A1 - Coppe, Thomas A1 - Rufi, Frederic A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - Development of an electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor (EIS) based capacitive heavy metal sensor for the detection of Pb2+ und Cd2+ ions JF - Physica status solidi (a) : applications and material science N2 - Chalcogenide glass materials as membranes for potentiometric sensors for chemical analysis in solutions have been studied since more than 20 years. In this work, an electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor structure was combined with chalcogenide glass membranes prepared by means of the pulsed laser deposition technique. Depending on the membrane composition a selectivity to different ions (Cd2+ and Pb2+) is achieved. The different sensor membranes have been physically characterised using microscopy, ellipsometry, profilometry, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS). The electrochemical behaviour has been investigated via capacitance/voltage (C/V) and constant capacitance (ConCap) measurements and results in a Cd2+ sensitivity of 23.1 ± 0.6 mV per decade in a linear range from 7 × 10−6 to 10−2 mol/l and 24.4 ± 0.5 mV per decade in a linear range from 5 × 10−6 to 10−2 mol/l for Pb2+, respectively. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.200983306 SN - 1862-6300 N1 - Special Issue: Engineering of Functional Interfaces EnFI 2009 VL - 207 IS - 4 SP - 930 EP - 934 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Klöters, Georg A1 - Pferdemenges, Jörg T1 - Optimised protection against lightning for the signalling and safety systems of level crossings on non-electrified railway lines JF - RTR : European Rail Technology Review Y1 - 2010 SN - 0079-9548 VL - 50 IS - 2 PB - DVV Media Group CY - Hamburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Naujokat, Anke T1 - Ut rhetorica architectura – Leon Battista Alberti´s Technique of Architectural Collage / Leon Battista Albertis architektonische Collagetechnik JF - Candide : journal for architectural knowledge N2 - Leon Battista Alberti, probably the most innovative architect of early Renaissance Italy, has always fascinated scholars by virtue of the striking interpenetration of theory and practice manifest in his work. As an architect, Alberti was an autodidact. Without the benefit of the formative influence of a master or design education, the roots of his conception of architecture lie in his intellectual formation through humanistic rhetoric. The present study demonstrates with reference to a specific project — the Tempietto of the Holy Sepulchre in Florence — how Alberti’s humanist approach conditioned his method of architectural design. Y1 - 2010 SN - 1869-6465 VL - 2 SP - 73 EP - 100 PB - RWTH Aachen CY - Aachen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blome, Hans-Joachim A1 - Chicone, Carmen A1 - Hehl, Friedrich W. A1 - Mashhoon, Bahram T1 - Nonlocal modification of Newtonian gravity JF - Physical Review D N2 - The Newtonian regime of a recent nonlocal extension of general relativity is investigated. Nonlocality is introduced via a scalar “constitutive” kernel in a special case of the translational gauge theory of gravitation, namely, the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity. In this theory, the nonlocal aspect of gravity simulates dark matter. A nonlocal and nonlinear generalization of Poisson’s equation of Newtonian gravitation is presented. The implications of nonlocality for the gravitational physics in the solar system are briefly studied. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.065020 SN - 0556-2821 VL - 81 IS - 6 EP - 065020 PB - American Physical Society CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wagner, Torsten A1 - Werner, Frederik A1 - Miyamoto, Ko-ichiro A1 - Ackermann, Hans-Josef A1 - Yoshinobu, Tatsuo A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - FPGA-based LAPS device for the flexible design of sensing sites on functional interfaces JF - Physica Status Solidi (A) N2 - The development of new interfaces for (bio-)chemical sensors requires comprehensive analyses and testing. The light-addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS) can be used as a platform to investigate the sensitivity of a newly developed interface towards (bio-)chemical agents. LAPS measurements are spatially resolved by utilisation of focused light beams to define individual measurement spots. In this work, a new digitally modulated LAPS set-up based on an FPGA design will be introduced to increase the number of measurement spots, to shorten the measurement time and to improve the measurement accuracy. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.200983320 SN - 1862-6300 N1 - Special Issue: Engineering of Functional Interfaces EnFI 2009 VL - 207 IS - 4 SP - 844 EP - 849 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus A1 - Knoben, Werner T1 - Long term risk sharing contracts as an approach to establish public–private partnerships for investment into next generation access networks JF - Telecommunications Policy N2 - This paper develops an investment/pricing model for the deployment of basic broadband networks which, along with other applications, is applicable to public–private partnership projects. In particular, a new investment model is suggested to be used for finance deployment over a longer term by enabling both private and public investors to participate in the roll-out of next generation access (NGA) infrastructure. This so-called “long-term risk sharing concept” has several notable benefits compared with the traditional regulatory approach. Above all, the model enables both private operators and public authorities to share the risk of investing in NGA infrastructure. Thus the model offers a way for public authorities to achieve a timely and countrywide roll-out of NGA networks, including in areas where NGA investment would otherwise not occur. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2010.07.011 SN - 0308-5961 N1 - Part of special issue "Public–private interplay in next generation communications" VL - 34 IS - 9 SP - 528 EP - 539 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hirschfeld, Julian A. A1 - Lustfeld, Hans A1 - Reißel, Martin A1 - Steffen, Bernhard T1 - A novel scheme for precise diagnostics and effective stabilization of currents in a fuel cell stack JF - International Journal of Energy Research N2 - A novel scheme for detecting inhomogeneous internal currents in a fuel cell stack is presented. In this paper the scheme is investigated for the case that the flow field plates consist of graphite. Then plates of high conductivity, e.g. aluminium between the flow field plates together with small slits in these plates have three effects: (a) Whenever a local inhomogeneity of the electric current occurs at a particular cell in the stack, this will induce a surface current close to that cell perpendicular to the averaged current. This current can be detected. (b) The plates of high conductivity completely prevent the inhomogeneities from spreading to neighbouring cells. (c) Even at the particular cell the inhomogeneity is suppressed as far as possible. Thus this scheme leads to much better diagnostic possibilities and at the same time reduces electric instabilities to an extent, where they probably become harmless. This scheme will first be explained for a simple model to clarify the idea. However, very precise three dimensional computations using realistic parameters are presented, corroborating the results of the simple model. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/er.1662 SN - 0363-907X VL - 34 IS - 3 SP - 293 EP - 301 PB - Wiley CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scholz, A. A1 - Ley, Wilfried A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Miau, J. J. A1 - Juang, J. C. T1 - Flight results of the COMPASS-1 picosatellite mission JF - Acta Astronautica N2 - The mission of the COMPASS-1 picosatellite is to take pictures of the earth, to validate a space-borne GPS receiver developed by the German Aerospace Center, and to verify the proper operation of the magnetic attitude control system in orbit. The spacecraft was launched on April 28, 2008 from the Indian space port Sriharikota, as part of the PSLV-C9 world record launch that simultaneously brought ten satellites into orbit. The mission operations were carried out from the ground stations in Aachen and Tainan. Arising difficulties in the communication link were overcome with the support of individuals from the amateur radio community. After several months of mission operation, abundant housekeeping and mission data has been commanded, received and analyzed and is presented in this paper. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2010.06.040 SN - 0094-5765 VL - 76 IS - 9-10 SP - 1289 EP - 1298 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -