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Lee, Yongtae (author), Choi, Woojun (author), Kim, Taewoong (author), Song, Seungwoo (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Chae, Youngcheol (author)This letter describes a compact resistor-based temperature sensor intended for the thermal monitoring of microprocessors and DRAMs. It consists of an RC poly phase filter (PPF) that is read out by a frequency-locked loop (FLL) based on a dual zero-crossing (ZC) detection scheme. The sensor, fabricated in 65-nm CMOS, occupies 5800 μ m2 and...journal article 2019
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Blanken, Micha (author), Verweij, Cees (author), Mulder, K.F. (author)Innovations are required in urban infrastructures due to the pressing needs for mitigating climate change and prevent resource depletion. In order to address the slow pace of innovation in urban systems, this paper analyses factors involved in attempts to introduce novel sanitary systems. Today new requirements are important: sanitary systems...journal article 2019
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Hendrikse, H. (author), Nord, Torodd S. (author)Interaction of sea or lake ice with vertically sided offshore structures may result in severe structural vibrations commonly referred to as ice-induced vibrations. With the surge in offshore wind developments in sub-arctic regions this problem has received increased attention over the last decade, whereas traditionally the topic has been mainly...journal article 2019
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Hei, K. (author), Shi, Guang (author), Hänsel, A. (author), Deng, Z. (author), Latkowski, Sylwester (author), Van Den Berg, Steven A. (author), Bente, Erwin (author), Bhattacharya, N. (author)The measurement of distance plays an integral part in many aspects of modern societies. In this paper an integrated mode-locked laser on a chip is used for distance measurement based on mode-resolved interferometry. The emission from the on-chip source with a repetition rate of 2.5 GHz and a spectral bandwidth of 3 nm is coupled into a...journal article 2019
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Zong, Z. (author), Chen, Peng (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author)In this paper, we propose a 60-GHz fractional-N digital frequency synthesizer aimed at reducing its phase noise (PN) at both the flicker (1/f <sup>3</sup> ) and thermal (1/f <sup>2</sup> ) regions while minimizing its power consumption. The digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) fundamentally resonates at 20 GHz and co-generates a strong...journal article 2019
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Eijlander, Sabine (author), Mulder, K.F. (author)Global society is confronted with various challenges: climate change should be mitigated, and society should adapt to the impacts of climate change, resources will become scarcer and hence resources should be used more efficiently and recovered after use, the growing world population and its growing wealth create unprecedented emissions of...journal article 2019
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Willems, Tom (author), Hendrikse, H. (author)Offshore wind turbines at locations where sea or lake ice is present need to be designed to withstand ice-induced loading. For vertical-sided support structures, such as monopiles, the effects of ice-induced vibrations need to be considered in the design. Current practice is either to use approaches provided in design standards, or for example...conference paper 2019
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Hendrikse, H. (author)The second edition of the ISO19906 design standard contains changes in the informative appendix concerning dynamic ice actions. Challenges in application of the previous approach and advances in understanding of the dynamic ice-structure interaction process were the main motivation for the revision. The new guideline provides relevant...conference paper 2019
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Abramian, A. (author), Vakulenko, Sergei A. (author), van Horssen, W.T. (author)In this paper, a new simple oscillator model is considered describing ice-induced vibrations of upstanding, water-surrounded, and bottom-founded offshore structures. Existing models are extended by taking into account deformations of an ice floe and a moving contact interaction between an ice rod, which is cut out from the floe, and the...journal article 2019
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Levinson, Marc (author)The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) currently manages 137 navigation locks. Most of them have been constructed during the 20st century and were considered as unique projects. This led to a great variety in their designs and characteristics. Currently, 52 locks are reaching the end of their technical life...master thesis 2018
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Dudink, Bart (author)More than 50 locks owned by Rijkswaterstaat need replacement or renovation in the coming 40 years. Due to this fact an opportunity for changing the traditional way of building and maintaining navigational locks has arisen. Because of the replacement/renovation of locks in the coming time, implementing a new owning and building strategy is...master thesis 2018
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Nord, Torodd S. (author), Samardžija, Ilija (author), Hendrikse, H. (author), Bjerkås, Morten (author), Høyland, Knut V. (author), Li, Hongtao (author)The signature and occurrence of frequency lock-in (FLI) vibrations of full-scale offshore structures are not well understood. Although several structures have experienced FLI, limited amounts of time histories of the responses alongside measured met-ocean data are available in the literature. This paper presents an analysis of 61 measured...journal article 2018
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Khattar, Varun (author)Closed-loop control systems, which utilize output signals for feedback to generate control inputs, can achieve high performance. However, robustness of feedback control loops can be lost if system changes and uncertainties are too large. Adaptive control combines the traditional feedback structure with providing adaptation mechanisms that adjust...master thesis 2018
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Pretagostini, Francesco (author)Over the past century, cars have become a fundamental part of our society. With the increasingly larger number of vehicles on the road, safety is, now more than ever, a topic of paramount importance. It is estimated that every year 26,000 people are killed on European roads, corresponding to a social cost of 100 billion euros. In the last two...master thesis 2018
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Lin, Dezhi (author)This thesis discusses the theory, circuit design, software design and measurements of an atto-Farad resolution closed-loop impedance measurement bridge circuit for capacitive sensors implemented using commercial off the shelf components.<br/>A lock-in amplifier (LIA) method is used here. The capacitive sensor embedded in an impedance bridge is...master thesis 2018
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Brignardelli, Santiago (author)The river Leie is a commercial waterway that flows from Pas-de-Calais to Gent. Between the cities of Armentieres and Mennen, it defines the Belgium-French border. Seven islands along this 20 km-long section are the product of canalization, introduced in the 17th century. Over the following years, this waterway developed into an infrastructural...master thesis 2018
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Ding, Ming (author), Zhou, Zhihao (author), Liu, Yao-Hong (author), Traferro, Stefano (author), Bachmann, Christian (author), Philips, Kathleen (author), Sebastiano, F. (author)A 40-nm CMOS wakeup timer employing a bang-bang digital-intensive frequency-locked loop for Internet-of-Things applications is presented. A self-biased ΣΔ digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is locked to an RC time constant via a single-bit chopped comparator and a digital loop filter. Such highly digitized architecture fully exploits the...journal article 2018
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Pourmousavian, Naser (author), Kuo, Feng Wei (author), Siriburanon, Teerachot (author), Babaie, M. (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author)This paper proposes an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) fractional-N all-digital PLL (ADPLL) powered from a single 0.5-V supply. While its digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) runs directly at 0.5 V, an internal switched-capacitor dc-dc converter ``doubles'' the supply voltage to all the digital circuitry and particularly regulates the time-to...journal article 2018
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Gürleyük, C. (author), Pedala', L. (author), Pan, S. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Sebastiano, F. (author)This paper presents a 7-MHz CMOS RC frequency reference. It consists of a frequency-locked loop in which the output frequency of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) is locked to the combined phase shifts of two independent RC (Wien bridge) filters, each employing resistors with complementary temperature coefficients. The filters are driven...journal article 2018
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Pennazza, Giorgio (author), Santonico, Marco (author), Vollero, Luca (author), Zompanti, A. (author), Sabatini, A. (author), Kumar, Nandeesh (author), Pini, Ivan (author), Quiros Solano, W.F. (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), D'Amico, Arnaldo (author)This paper presents an advanced voltammetric system to be used as electronic tongue for liquid and gas analysis. It has been designed to be more flexible and accurate with respect to other existing and similar systems. It features improved electronics and additional operative conditions. Among others these include the possibility to optically...journal article 2018