scholarly journals Development of the Low Power Consumption Eddy Current Displacement Sensor for Maglev Hydraulic Generator

Author(s):  
Takumi NAKAMURA ◽  
Nobuyuki KURITA ◽  
Takeo ISHIKAWA
Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1287
Author(s):  
Alessandro Bertacchini ◽  
Marco Lasagni ◽  
Gabriele Sereni

The demand for smart, low-power, and low-cost sensors is rapidly increasing with the proliferation of industry automation. In this context, an Ultra-Low Power Eddy Current Displacement Sensor (ULP-ECDS) targeting common industrial applications and designed to be embedded in wireless Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices is presented. A complete characterization of the realized ULP-ECDS operating with different metallic targets was carried out. The choice of the considered targets in terms of material and thickness was inspired by typical industrial scenarios. The experimental results show that the realized prototype works properly with extremely low supply voltages, allowing for obtaining an ultra-low power consumption, significantly lower than other state-of-the-art solutions. In particular, the proposed sensor reached the best resolution of 2 µm in case of a carbon steel target when operated with a supply voltage of 200 mV and with a power consumption of 150 µW. By accepting a resolution of 12 µm, it is possible to further reduce the power consumption of the sensor to less than 10 µW. The obtained results also demonstrate how the performances of the sensor are strongly dependent on both the target and the demodulation technique used to extract the displacement information. This allowed for defining some practical guidelines that can help the design of effective solutions considering application-specific constraints.


2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
Dongge Deng ◽  
Mingzhi Zhu ◽  
Qiang Shu ◽  
Baoxu Wang ◽  
Fei Yang

It is necessary to develop a high homogeneous, low power consumption, high frequency and small-size shim coil for high precision and low-cost atomic spin gyroscope (ASG). To provide the shim coil, a multi-objective optimization design method is proposed. All structural parameters including the wire diameter are optimized. In addition to the homogeneity, the size of optimized coil, especially the axial position and winding number, is restricted to develop the small-size shim coil with low power consumption. The 0-1 linear programming is adopted in the optimal model to conveniently describe winding distributions. The branch and bound algorithm is used to solve this model. Theoretical optimization results show that the homogeneity of the optimized shim coil is several orders of magnitudes better than the same-size solenoid. A simulation experiment is also conducted. Experimental results show that optimization results are verified, and power consumption of the optimized coil is about half of the solenoid when providing the same uniform magnetic field. This indicates that the proposed optimal method is feasible to develop shim coil for ASG.


2016 ◽  
Vol 136 (11) ◽  
pp. 1555-1566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Fujiwara ◽  
Hiroshi Harada ◽  
Takuya Kawata ◽  
Kentaro Sakamoto ◽  
Sota Tsuchiya ◽  
...  

Nano Letters ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1451-1456 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Barois ◽  
A. Ayari ◽  
P. Vincent ◽  
S. Perisanu ◽  
P. Poncharal ◽  
...  

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 937-945
Author(s):  
Ruihuan Zhang ◽  
Yu He ◽  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Shaohua An ◽  
Qingming Zhu ◽  
...  

AbstractUltracompact and low-power-consumption optical switches are desired for high-performance telecommunication networks and data centers. Here, we demonstrate an on-chip power-efficient 2 × 2 thermo-optic switch unit by using a suspended photonic crystal nanobeam structure. A submilliwatt switching power of 0.15 mW is obtained with a tuning efficiency of 7.71 nm/mW in a compact footprint of 60 μm × 16 μm. The bandwidth of the switch is properly designed for a four-level pulse amplitude modulation signal with a 124 Gb/s raw data rate. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed switch is the most power-efficient resonator-based thermo-optic switch unit with the highest tuning efficiency and data ever reported.


Membranes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 535
Author(s):  
Antonia Silvestri ◽  
Nicola Di Trani ◽  
Giancarlo Canavese ◽  
Paolo Motto Ros ◽  
Leonardo Iannucci ◽  
...  

Manipulation of ions and molecules by external control at the nanoscale is highly relevant to biomedical applications. We report a biocompatible electrode-embedded nanofluidic channel membrane designed for electrofluidic applications such as ionic field-effect transistors for implantable drug-delivery systems. Our nanofluidic membrane includes a polysilicon electrode electrically isolated by amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC). The nanochannel gating performance was experimentally investigated based on the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics, leakage current, and power consumption in potassium chloride (KCl) electrolyte. We observed significant modulation of ionic diffusive transport of both positively and negatively charged ions under physical confinement of nanochannels, with low power consumption. To study the physical mechanism associated with the gating performance, we performed electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The results showed that the flat band voltage and density of states were significantly low. In light of its remarkable performance in terms of ionic modulation and low power consumption, this new biocompatible nanofluidic membrane could lead to a new class of silicon implantable nanofluidic systems for tunable drug delivery and personalized medicine.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (32) ◽  
pp. 8338-8344
Author(s):  
Xingyan Shao ◽  
Shuo Wang ◽  
Leqi Hu ◽  
Tingting Liu ◽  
Xiaomei Wang ◽  
...  

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