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Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is one of the main tracking systems for many current and future collider experiments at RHIC and LHC. It has a capability to measure the space points of charged tracks for good momentum resolution as well as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-30 K. Dehmelt , P. Garg , T. K. Hemmick , A. Milov , E. Shulga , V. Zakharov

Gated wires are widely used in Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to avoid ion back-flow (IBF) in the drift volume. The anode wires can provide stable gain at high voltage with a long lifetime. However, switching on and off the gated grid (GG)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 Shuai Wang , Fuwang Shen , Xiao Zhao , Zhihang Zhu , Fangang Kong , Changyu Li , Qinghua Xu , Zhangbu Xu , Chi Yang , Chengguang Zhu

A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is an ideal device for the detection of charged particle tracks in a large volume covering a solid angle of almost $4\pi$. The high density of hits on a given particle track facilitates the task of pattern…

The design of gate drivers is an important topic in power converter topologies that can help reduce switching losses and increase power density. Gate driving techniques that offer zero-voltage switching and/or zero current switching have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Ferdinand Grimm , Pouya Kolahian , John Wood , Richard Bucknall , Mehdi Baghdadi

Grid-connected inverter control is challenging to implement due to the difficulty of obtaining and maintaining an accurate grid model. Direct Data-Driven Predictive Control provides a model-free alternative to traditional model-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Sebastian Graf , Keith Moffat , Anurag Mohapatra , Alessandro Chiuso , Florian Dörfler

A novel idea to control ion back-flow in time projection chambers is to use a multi-layer extended gating grid to capture back-flowing ions at the expense of live time and electron transparency. In this initial study, I perform simulations…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-21 J. D. Mulligan

Power dissipation in integrated circuits is one of the major concerns to the research community, at the verge when more number of transistors are integrated on a single chip. The substantial source of power dissipation in sequential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Pritam Bhattacharjee , Bipasha Nath , Alak Majumder

A robust power gating design using Graphene Nano-Ribbon Field Effect Transistors (GNRFET) is proposed using 16nm technology. The Power Gating (PG) structure is composed of GNRFET as a power switch and MOS power gated module. The proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Hader E. El-hmaily , Rabab Ezz-Eldin , A. I. A. Galal , Hesham F. A. Hamed

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) at CERN LHC is presently equipped with Multi Wire Proportional Chambers (MWPCs). A gating grid prevents ions produced during the gas amplification from moving into…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Alexander Deisting , Chilo Garabatos

We have developed a gating foil for the time projection chamber envisaged as a central tracker for the international linear collider experiment. It has a structure similar to the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) with a higher optical aperture…

A time projection chamber (TPC) based on a gaseous chamber with micro pixel electrodes (micro-PIC) has been developed for measuring three-dimensional tracks of charged particles. The micro-PIC with a detection area of 10 cm square consists…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Kubo , K. Miuchi , T. Nagayoshi , A. Ochi , R. Orito , A. Takada , T. Tanimori , M. Ueno

A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is a powerful detector for 3-dimensional tracking and particle identification for ultra-high multiplicity events. It is the central tracking device of many experiments, e.g. the ALICE experiment at CERN. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Bernhard Ketzer

Imbalanced voltage sharing during the turn-off transient is a challenge for series-connected silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET application. This article first discusses the influence of the gate-drain discharge deviation on the voltage imbalance…

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Power dissipation in the sequential systems of modern CPU integrated chips (CPU-IC viz., Silicon Chip) is in discussion since the last decade. Researchers have been cultivating many low power design methods to choose the best potential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Dhiraj Sarkar , Pritam Bhattacharjee , Alak Majumder

The mitigation of human-induced climate change is of crucial importance for the sustainability of humankind. For this aim the RPC community has exerted considerable effort over the last decade to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Lopes P. Assis , A. Blanco , P. Fonte , M. Pimenta

A new strategy is proposed to control interior permanent magnet generators in dc microgrids interfaced through an active rectifier. The controller design is based on the decomposition of the system dynamics into slow and fast modes using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Luis Herrera , Chad Miller , Bang-Hung Tsao

Driver attention prediction implies the intention understanding of where the driver intends to go and what object the driver concerned about, which commonly provides a driving task-guided traffic scene understanding. Some recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tianci Zhao , Xue Bai , Jianwu Fang , Jianru Xue

Transistors are key elements for enabling computational hardware in both classical and quantum domains. Here, we propose a voltage-gated spin transistor using itinerant electrons in the Hubbard model which acts at the level of single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Rozhin Yousefjani , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat

Recently there has been a lot of progress in the development of economic nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) schemes for multistage optimal power flow (OPF) problems. However, the additional inclusion of discrete decision variables to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Jürgen Gutekunst , Armin Nurkanovic , Ekaterina Kostina , Hans Georg Bock , Robert Scholz , Amer Mesanovic

Model predictive control (MPC) has proven its applicability in power conversion control with its fast dynamic response to reference changes while ensuring critical system constraints are satisfied. Even then, the computational burden still…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Orcun Karaca , Georgios Darivianakis
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