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de Koning, Daan (author)When drag anchors are no longer suitable for anchoring floating wind turbines to the seabed because of unfavorable soil conditions, it is necessary to use drilled and grouted anchor piles instead. For the installation of such anchor piles it is necessary to drill large diameter holes, with diameters ranging between 1 and 5 meters. The drilling...master thesis 2024
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Vanhamel, J. (author), Dupont, Samuel (author), Kastelik, Jean-Claude (author), Dekemper, Emmanuel (author)Acousto-Optical Tunable Filters (AOTFs) make use of the interaction between sound and light. To generate an ultrasound diffraction grating, a Radio-Frequency (RF) signal is applied to a piezoelectric transducer. The optical pass band can be controlled by adapting the properties of this transducer and the RF-signal. To achieve more precise...conference paper 2024
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Gao, Z. (author)Reducing power consumption is becoming increasingly important for the sustainability of the communication industry because it is expected to consume a significant portion of the global electricity in the face of the exponentially increasing demands on the volume and rate of data transmission. As the scope narrows to the individual wireless...doctoral thesis 2023
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Nawrocki, Maciej (author)Transmit digital-to-analog converters have become an essential building block for state-of-the-art Ethernet infrastructures. They are also one of the most significant sources of power consumption in an Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceiver. These devices must maintain high linearity and a well-defined impedance of 100 Ω while operating at a...master thesis 2023
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Heyns, Kirsten (author)Severe muscle weakness is a symptom appearing in certain neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), affecting people's daily lives by reducing functionality, decreasing independence, and reducing the ability to perform essential daily activities. This patient group might benefit from using active-assistive devices...master thesis 2023
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Huang, Shijie (author)Class D amplifiers find widespread application in audio devices for driving load speakers, primarily due to their remarkable efficiency. Nonetheless, this enhanced efficiency often comes at the expense of reduced linearity. Hence, techniques for reducing Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) are important in the context of class D amplifiers.<br/><br/...master thesis 2023
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van der Bend, Marius (author)During single-blade offshore wind turbine (OWT) installation, wind disturbance results in blade root motion. The sensitivity to this wind disturbance is more significant for larger blades, reducing the allowable installation weather limit. A potential solution is a Hook Mounted Compensator (HMC) between the crane and the load that can provide...master thesis 2023
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Macabú Araújo Peres, Jadyr (author)With the increasing water depths of the new offshore wind farms, the challenging soil conditions, the availability of assets, and other factors, jack-up installation vessels may no longer be suitable to complete the installation scope of work for the new wind farms. Therefore, installation methods and techniques using floating vessels must be...master thesis 2023
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Wei, Tom (author)DMD (Duchenne muscular dystrophy) is a genetic disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness, leading to the eventual loss of muscle function. After losing lower extremity function, DMD patients lose the ability to use their arms. To assist individuals with DMD, an upper extremity exoskeleton is being developed to provide support. <br/>...master thesis 2023
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Zillen, Sjoerd (author)Flatness is an important surface tolerance requirement during the manufacturing of a part of an ASML machine. Flatness can be measured by either measuring the variation in height of the surface in one measurement (a plane-wise measurement) or by measuring the height on multiple xy-coordinates on this surface (point-wise measurement). Point-wise...master thesis 2023
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Lindeman, Pim (author), Steijlen, A.S.M. (author), Bastemeijer, J. (author), Bossche, A. (author)One of the major challenges associated with e-textiles is the connection between flexible fabric-integrated wires and rigid electronics. This work aims to increase the user experience and mechanical reliability of these connections by foregoing conventional galvanic connections in favor of inductively coupled coils. The new design allows for...journal article 2023
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Grazian, F. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Light-duty electric vehicles (EVs) typically have a rated voltage of either 400 or 800 V. Especially when considering public parking infrastructures or owners with multiple EVs, e.g., car rental companies, EV wireless chargers must efficiently deliver electric power to both battery options. For this purpose, this article proposes an advanced...journal article 2023
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Jouyaeian, A. (author), Fan, Q. (author), Brito Zamparette, R.L. (author), Ausserlechner, Udo (author), Motz, Mario (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article presents a hybrid magnetic current sensor for galvanically isolated measurements. It consists of a CMOS chip that senses the magnetic field generated by current flowing through a lead-frame-based current rail. Hall plates and coils are used to sense low-frequency (dc to 10 kHz) and high-frequency (10 kHz to 5 MHz) magnetic fields...journal article 2023
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Späth, Jana M. (author), Kolovou Kouri, K. (author), Holzapfel, L.F.M. (author), Thewes, Roland (author), Giagka, Vasiliki (author)Safety is a critical consideration when designing an electrical neural stimulator, given the direct contact with neural tissue. This paper presents the design of a charge balancing system suitable for frequencies up to the kilohertz domain, to be used as an add-on system for stimulators over a wide range of frequencies, also covering nerve...conference paper 2023
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Jouyaeian, A. (author), Fan, Q. (author), Ausserlechner, Udo (author), Motz, Mario (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article presents a hybrid magnetic current sensor for contactless current measurement. Pick-up coils and Hall plates are employed to sense the high and low-frequency fields, respectively, generated by a current-carrying conductor. Due to the differentiating characteristic of the pick-up coils, a flat frequency response can then be...journal article 2023
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Pachos-Fokialis, N. (author), Galanaki, Eleanna (author), van der Heijden, Beatrice I.J.M. (author)Previously, scholars have studied the need for implementing different human resource (HR) configurations that foster aging employees' outcomes, but there is a lack of evidence at the group level. Using the framework of Social Exchange Theory, coupled with the Selection, Optimization, and Compensation theory, we examine associations between...journal article 2023
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Wang, Yi (author), Yang, Zhongping (author), Lin, Fei (author), Dong, J. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Compensation capacitors are naturally susceptible to manufacturing defects and aging effects, leading to the degraded performance of a wireless power transfer (WPT) system. This article focuses on the compensation parameters optimization during the design stage and control strategy during the operation phase to improve the inherent capacitor...journal article 2023
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Beikmirza, M.R. (author), Shen, Y. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Alavi, S.M. (author)This article presents a wideband, energy-efficient digital transmitter (DTX) suitable for multi-mode/multi-band wireless communication applications. It features various operation modes comprising Cartesian (Modes-1/-2) and multi-phase (Modes-3/-4) configurations utilizing LO clocks with different duty cycle in the interleaving/non...journal article 2023
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Lu, T. (author), Du, S. (author)In this letter, a 6.78-MHz single-stage regulating voltage-doubling rectifier is presented for biomedical wireless power transfer (WPT) applications. Derived from a full-wave voltage doubler, a theoretical voltage conversion ratio (VCR) of 2 can be achieved, which benefits the end-to-end voltage gain of a biomedical WPT system with varying...journal article 2023
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Teh, Irvin (author), Shelley, David (author), Boyle, J.H. (author), Zhou, Fenglei (author), Poenar, Ana Maria (author), Sharrack, Noor (author), Foster, Richard J. (author), Yuldasheva, Nadira Y. (author), Parker, Geoff J.M. (author)Purpose: Tensor-valued diffusion encoding can probe more specific features of tissue microstructure than what is available by conventional diffusion weighting. In this work, we investigate the technical feasibility of tensor-valued diffusion encoding at high b-values with q-space trajectory imaging (QTI) analysis, in the human heart in vivo....journal article 2023