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Determining the Impact of Wind on System Costs via the Temporal Patterns of Load and Wind Generation
Wind Energy, System Costs, Alternative Energy, Electricity Generation, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, Q4, Q42, Q54,
Field tests of a portable MEMS gravimeter
Gravimeters are used to measure density anomalies under the ground. They are applied in
many different fields from volcanology to oil and gas exploration, but present commercial systems
are costly and massive. A new type of gravity sensor has been developed that utilises the same
fabrication methods as those used to make mobile phone accelerometers. In this study, we describe
the first results of a field-portable microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gravimeter. The stability
of the gravimeter is demonstrated through undertaking a multi-day measurement with a standard
deviation of 5.58 Ă 10â6 msâ2
. It is then demonstrated that a change in gravitational acceleration of
4.5 Ă 10â5 msâ2
can be measured as the device is moved between the top and the bottom of a 20.7 m
lift shaft with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 14.25. Finally, the device is demonstrated to be stable in
a more harsh environment: a 4.5 Ă 10â4 msâ2 gravity variation is measured between the top and
bottom of a 275-m hill with an SNR of 15.88. These initial field-tests are an important step towards
a chip-sized gravity senso
A High Stability Optical Shadow Sensor with Applications for Precision Accelerometers
Gravimeters are devices which measure changes in the value of the
gravitational acceleration, \textit{g}. This information is used to infer
changes in density under the ground allowing the detection of subsurface voids;
mineral, oil and gas reserves; and even the detection of the precursors of
volcanic eruptions. A micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) gravimeter has
been fabricated completely in silicon allowing the possibility of cost
e-effective, lightweight and small gravimeters. To obtain a measurement of
gravity, a highly stable displacement measurement of the MEMS is required. This
requires the development of a portable electronics system that has a
displacement sensitivity of nm over a period of a day or more. The
portable electronics system presented here has a displacement sensitivity nm ( nm at s). The battery power
system used a modulated LED for measurements and required temperature control
of the system to 2 mK, monitoring of the tilt to 2 radians,
the storage of measured data and the transmission of the data to an external
server.Comment: 8 Pages, 12 figures, 5 equations, currently submitted and under
review at IEEE Sensors SIE
Microelectromechanical system gravimeters as a new tool for gravity imaging
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gravimeter has been manufactured with a sensitivity of 40 ppb in an integration time of 1âs. This sensor has been used to measure the Earth tides: the elastic deformation of the globe due to tidal forces. No such measurement has been demonstrated before now with a MEMS gravimeter. Since this measurement, the gravimeter has been miniaturized and tested in the field. Measurements of the free-air and Bouguer effects have been demonstrated by monitoring the change in gravitational acceleration measured while going up and down a lift shaft of 20.7âm, and up and down a local hill of 275âm. These tests demonstrate that the device has the potential to be a useful field-portable instrument. The development of an even smaller device is underway, with a total package size similar to that of a smartphone
The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey
We present the -band luminosity function for a sample of 18678 galaxies,
with average redshift , from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey. The
luminosity function may be fit by a Schechter function with , , and $\phi^* = 0.019 \pm 0.001 \
h^3^{-3}-23.0 \leq M - 5 \log h \leq -17.5b_J \approx 20b_J \approx 20\alpha = -0.7\alpha = -1W_{\lambda} = 5\alphaM^* =
-20.03 \pm 0.03 + 5 \log h\alpha = -0.9 \pm 0.1M^* = -20.22 \pm 0.02 + 5 \log h\alpha = -0.3
\pm 0.1$.
(abridged abstract)Comment: 41 pages, including 13 postscript figures, uses AASTEX v4.0 style
files. Important clarification of R-band definition, plus correction of
luminosity densities and updated references. Main conclusions unchanged.
Final version to appear in Ap
Murraya Paniculata Mediated Synthesis Of CdS Nanoparticles For Potent Biomedical Applications
The leaf extract of Murraya paniculata (MPL) is used to create cadmium sulphide nanoparticles, or CdS NPs and the reducing and stabilizing agent is plant extract. A crucial capping agent in nano production is played by phytochemicals. Analytical methods such as
XRD and FTIR are used to characterize CdS NPs. The biomedical applications of prepared CdS NPs were examined, including their anticancer, antifungal, and antibacterial properties. The antibacterial performance was carried out with S.flexneri, C.perfringens, S.typhimurium, and E.faecalis which were all susceptible to the antibacterial action of CdS NPs. At 150”g/ml, S.flexneri and E.faecalis showed a maximum zone of inhibition is 20mm. In addition, A.niger and C.albicans were used to test the antifungal activities, results shows the concentration of 400 ”g/ml CdS NPs inhibited the growth of A.flavus (16mm). By using the NRU assay, it was found that the biosynthesized CdS NPs exhibited cytotoxic action against the MCF-7 cell line. Analysis using the NRU assay revealed that treating cell lines with increasing concentrations of NPs had lethal effects. The 24-hour treatment's IC50 was found to be 153.2 ”g/ml
A Point's Point of View of Stringy Geometry
The notion of a "point" is essential to describe the topology of spacetime.
Despite this, a point probably does not play a particularly distinguished role
in any intrinsic formulation of string theory. We discuss one way to try to
determine the notion of a point from a worldsheet point of view. The derived
category description of D-branes is the key tool. The case of a flop is
analyzed and Pi-stability in this context is tied in to some ideas of
Bridgeland. Monodromy associated to the flop is also computed via Pi-stability
and shown to be consistent with previous conjectures.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, ref adde
Low temperature characterization of modulation doped SiGe grown on bonded silicon-on-insulator
Modulation doped pseudomorphic Si0.87Ge0.13 strained quantum wells were grown on bonded silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates. Comparison with similar structures grown on bulk Si(100) wafers shows that the SOI material has higher mobility at low temperatures with a maximum value of 16 810 cm 2/V s for 2.05 Ă 1011 cm â 2 carries at 298 mK. Effective masses obtained from the temperature dependence of Shubnikovâde Haas oscillations have a value of (0.27 ± 0.02) m0 compared to (0.23 ± 0.02) m0 for quantum wells on Si(100) while the cyclotron resonance effective masses obtained at higher magnetic fields without consideration for nonparabolicity effects have values between 0.25 and 0.29 m0. Ratios of the transport and quantum lifetimes, tau/tau q=2.13 ± 0.10, were obtained for the SOI material that are, we believe, the highest reported for any pseudomorphic SiGe modulation doped structure and demonstrates that there is less interface roughness or charge scattering in the SOI material than in metalâoxideâsemiconductor field effect transistors or other pseudomorphic SiGe modulation doped quantum wells
The Breakdown of Topology at Small Scales
We discuss how a topology (the Zariski topology) on a space can appear to
break down at small distances due to D-brane decay. The mechanism proposed
coincides perfectly with the phase picture of Calabi-Yau moduli spaces. The
topology breaks down as one approaches non-geometric phases. This picture is
not without its limitations, which are also discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
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