High-resolution, high-frequency wavelength shift detection of optical signals with low-cost, compact readouts

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Schuh ◽  
A. Hegyi ◽  
A. Raghavan ◽  
A. Lochbaum ◽  
J, Schwartz ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 1740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Schwartz ◽  
Kyle Arakaki ◽  
Peter Kiesel ◽  
Ajay Raghavan ◽  
Wilko Sommer ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTOur team is developing an optically-based smart monitoring system prototype targeting batteries for advanced battery applications such as hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs). The system concept envisions fiber optic (FO) sensors embedded within Lithium (Li)-ion batteries to measure parameters indicative of cell state in conjunction with our low-cost, compact optical wavelength-shift detection technology and intelligent algorithms to enable effective real-time performance management and optimized battery design. Towards these goals, we have successfully made functional prototypes of Li-ion pouch cells with FO sensors embedded within the electrode stack during cell fabrication. The strong, interesting signals from these FO sensors obtained over charge-discharge cycles offer valuable information and features to enable more accurate cell state-of-charge (SOC) and state-of-health (SOH) estimation, and better understand cell electrochemical and aging processes. This paper presents initial results from these prototype cells and compares the results from internal FO signals to earlier results reported by our team on purely external configurations where the FO sensors were attached to the cell skin.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1826 (1) ◽  
pp. 012082
Author(s):  
G F Bassous ◽  
R F Calili ◽  
C R H Barbosa

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 785
Author(s):  
Chow Shing Shin ◽  
Yu Chia Chang

Lattice structures are superior to stochastic foams in mechanical properties and are finding increasing applications. Their properties can be tailored in a wide range through adjusting the design and dimensions of the unit cell, changing the constituent materials as well as forming into hierarchical structures. In order to achieve more levels of hierarchy, the dimensions of the fundamental lattice have to be small enough. Although lattice size of several microns can be fabricated using the two-photon polymerization technique, sophisticated and costly equipment is required. To balance cost and performance, a low-cost high resolution micro-stereolithographic system has been developed in this work based on a commercial digital light processing (DLP) projector. Unit cell lengths as small as 100 μm have been successfully fabricated. Decreasing the unit cell size from 150 to 100 μm increased the compressive stiffness by 26%. Different pretreatments to facilitate the electroless plating of nickel on the lattice structure have been attempted. A pretreatment of dip coating in a graphene suspension is the most successful and increased the strength and stiffness by 5.3 and 3.6 times, respectively. Even a very light and incomplete nickel plating in the interior has increase the structural stiffness and strength by more than twofold.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Yang ◽  
Wei Tu ◽  
Shuying Huang ◽  
Hangyuan Lu

Pansharpening is the process of fusing a low-resolution multispectral (LRMS) image with a high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) image. In the process of pansharpening, the LRMS image is often directly upsampled by a scale of 4, which may result in the loss of high-frequency details in the fused high-resolution multispectral (HRMS) image. To solve this problem, we put forward a novel progressive cascade deep residual network (PCDRN) with two residual subnetworks for pansharpening. The network adjusts the size of an MS image to the size of a PAN image twice and gradually fuses the LRMS image with the PAN image in a coarse-to-fine manner. To prevent an overly-smooth phenomenon and achieve high-quality fusion results, a multitask loss function is defined to train our network. Furthermore, to eliminate checkerboard artifacts in the fusion results, we employ a resize-convolution approach instead of transposed convolution for upsampling LRMS images. Experimental results on the Pléiades and WorldView-3 datasets prove that PCDRN exhibits superior performance compared to other popular pansharpening methods in terms of quantitative and visual assessments.


1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. A10 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Sahn ◽  
Diana Tasker ◽  
Sandra Hagen-Ansert ◽  
Axel Brisken ◽  
Scott Corbett

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