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Selected studies of flow maldistribution in a minichannel plate heat exchanger
PublicationAnalysis of the state of-the-art in research of minichannel heat exchangers, especially on the topic of flow maldistribution in multiple channels, has been accomplished. Studies on minichannel plate heat exchanger with 51 parallel minichannels with four hydraulic diameters, i.e., 461 μm, 574 μm, 667 μm, and 750 μm have been presented. Flow at the instance of filling the microchannel with water at low flow rates has been visualized. The...
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Pressure drop related to flow maldistribution in a model minichannel plate heat exchanger
PublicationThe paper describes the issues related to the pressure drop that accompanies the phenomenon of maldistribution of working fluid between the channels of a model minichannel plate heat exchanger. The research concerns a single exchanger's plate containing 51 (in every geometry) parallel rectangular minichannels of hydraulic diameters 461 µm, 571 µm, 750 µm and 823 µm. In addition, the more complex geometry has been investigated,...
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Impact of Usability Website Attributes on Users’ Trust, Satisfaction and Loyalty
PublicationThis paper presents the results of an experimental study aimed at identifying possible relationships among website usability characteristics, consumer satisfaction, trust and loyalty. These factors regard not only customer satisfaction in a transactional sense, but in the long term they may affect e-customer behavior, opinions, recommendations and attitudes toward using on-line services in general. The study was performed with...
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Serwisy WWW jako instrument kształtowania relacji z klientem usług medycznych
PublicationWprowadzenie: W artykule podjęto problem oceny użyteczności serwisów WWW i badania postaw lojalnościowych e-klientów korzystających z serwisów WWW usług medycznych. Celem badania była wstępna walidacja metody do oceny jakości użytkowej serwisów WWW usług medycznych oraz określenie związków pomiędzy cechami jakości użytkowej serwisów WWW a cechami relacyjnymi, takimi jak: satysfakcja, chęć powrotu oraz zamiar rekomendowania serwisu...
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Usability and relational factors in user-perceived quality of online services
PublicationThe purpose of this paper is to identify the key determinants of con-sumer-perceived usability of online service websites and their impact on e-loyalty potential, expressed by customer’s willingness to return and to recommend the website to others. In this experimental usability study fifteen video-recorded users performed specific tasks in financial, travel and health online service websites. After completing the tasks users filled...
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Large Hydrodynamic Thrust Bearings and Their Application in Hydrogenerators
PublicationLarge hydrodynamic thrust bearings are the bearings which, due to hydrodynamic lubrication, allow large axial load to be transferred from a moving part (shaft) to the stationary part via a thin layer of the lubricant (usually oil), thus providing extremely low friction and practically no wear. Hydrogenerators with vertical shafts are the most important application of large thrust bearings. Main design and scientific problems of...
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Analiza bezpieczeństwa dla instalacji elektrycznej zasilającej Gdyńskie Centrum Innowacji
PublicationW ekspertyzie przedstawiono analizę stanu technicznego instalacji elektrycznych budynków Gdyńskiego Centrum Innowacji.
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Wykorzystanie detektora SIFT do georeferencjonowania zobrazowań satelitarnych z sensora AVHRR
PublicationW pracy zaproponowano autonomiczny algorytm georeferencjonownania obrazów satelitarnych bazujący na niezależnym od skali deskryptorze SIFT (ang. Scale-Invariant Feature Transform). Algorytm ma charakter kilkuetapowy, wykorzystujący detekcję punktów kontrolnych, dopasowanie ich do referencyjnej bazy punktów oraz wyznaczenie parametrów reprojekcji. W pracy dokonano także porównania dokładności zaproponowanego algorytmu w zależności...
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Ocena stanu łożyska nośnego hydrozespołu HZ-2 EW żarnowiec i przyczyn jego awarii w dniach 31.05 i 16.06.2011
Publicationw pracy przedstawiono ocenę stanu łożyska nośnego hydrozespołu hz-2 EW Żarnowiec i przyczyn jego awarii w dniach 31.05 i 16.06.2011. Przeanalizowano przebieg obu awarii na podstawie zapisów z systemu diagnostycznego. Oceniono konstrukcję łożyska i przedstawiono ocenę przyczyn awarii oraz rekomendacje dotyczące usuwania przyczyn i skutków awarii
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Channel Blockage and Flow Maldistribution during Unsteady Flow in a Model Microchannel Plate heat Exchanger
PublicationThis paper describes the problem of channel blockage as a result of flow maldistribution between the channels of a model mini channel plate heat exchanger consisting of one pass on each leg. Each leg of the heat exchanger contains 51 parallel and rectangular minichannels of four hydraulic diameters namely 461 μm, 571 μm, 750 μm and 823 μm. In addition, a more complex geometry has been investigated where for the sake of breaking...
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Flow Boiling in Minigap in the Reversed Two-Phase Thermosiphon Loop
PublicationThe paper presents the results of experimental investigations of a model of a heat exchanger featuring a minigap, which is perceived as an evaporator for an inverted thermosiphon. The system works with a single component test fluid. The tested evaporator generates pumping power in the test loop in a way similar to the mammoth pump. The tests regarded a module of the heat exchanger, consisting of a hot leg and a cold leg with the...
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Flow maldistribution and its mitigation in mini heat exchangers
PublicationIn the present paper, a detailed numerical investigation has been carried out to analyze the flow maldistribution in 50 parallel 1 mm x 1 mm rectangular minichannels and 1 mm depth minigap section with rectangular, trapezoidal, triangular or concave mani-folds in Z-type flow configuration (16 different cases). The working medium was ethanol and the mass flow rate was 5×10-4 kg/s. Both sections was heated from the bottom side. Heat...
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Review on Current Status of Echinocandins Use
PublicationFungal infections are rising all over the world every year. There are only five medical compound classes for treatment: triazoles, echinocandins, polyenes, flucytosine and allylamine. Currently, echinocandins are the most important compounds, because of their wide activity spectrum and much lower sides effects that may occur during therapy with other drugs. Echinocandins are secondary metabolites of fungi, which can inhibit the...
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Virulence of Clinical Candida Isolates
PublicationThe factors enablingCandidaspp. infections are secretion of hydrolytic enzymes, adher-ence to surfaces, biofilm formation or morphological transition, and fitness attributes. The aim of thisstudy was to investigate the correlation between known extracellular virulence factors and survivalofGalleria mellonellalarvae infected with clinicalCandida. The 25 isolates were tested and the activityof proteinases among 24/24, phospholipases...
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Synthesis, the crystal structure, and high-resolution NMR spectroscopy of methyl 4-O-acetyl-3-azido-2,3,6-trideoxy-6-iodo-ŕ-D-arabino-hexopyranoside
PublicationW wyniku wieloetapowej syntezy otrzymano glikozyd metylowy 4-O-acetylo-3-azydo-2,3,6-trideoksy-6-jodo-ŕ-D-arabino-heksopyranozy. Związek wykazuje konformację 4C1, co wykazano na podstawie wysokorozdzielczej spektroskopii1H i 13C NMR oraz rentgenowskiej analizy strukturalnej monokryształu. W pracy scharakteryzowano również 7 nowych związków otrzymanych jako produkty pośrednie i uboczne.
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1,3-Di-<i>n</i>-butylthiourea
PublicationIn the title compound, C9H20N2S, the n-butyl groups are in syn and anti positions in relation to the C=S bond. In the crystal, two molecules are connected by two N-H···S=C hydrogen bonds into a centrosymmetric dimer. Another N-H···S=C hydrogen bond links the dimers, forming layers with a hydrophilic interior and a hydrophobic exterior, which spread across the (100) plane. Interlacing of the...
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WIELOLEKOOPORNE ZAKAŻENIA CANDIDA - PROBLEM XXI WIEKU!
PublicationW ostatnich latach obserwuje się dramatyczny wzrost zakażeń grzybiczych, których przyczyną są grzyby z rodzaju Candida (C). Większość zakażeń wywoływana jest przez C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. krusei, C. parapsilosis i C. tropicalis. Dotychczas najczęściej stosowanymi lekami przeciwko Candida spp były azole, jednakże ze względu na występowanie naturalnej oporności na te antybiotyki (C. glabrata i C. krusei) coraz częściej azole...
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Molecular detection of Candida krusei
PublicationThe species identification of fungi belonging to genus Candida is an important issue as this genus becomes the emerging problem of nosocomial infections. As Candida krusei presents intrinsicresistance to the fluconazole that is the drug of the first choice in case of invasive candidiasis the PCR identifying the DNA of C. krusei was elaborated. The analytical sensitivity of the assay on spiked blood samples was estimated at 3-5...
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First report on echinocandin resistant Polish Candida isolates
PublicationPurpose: Candida spp. are ranked as one of the four major causative agents of fungal infections. The number of infections caused by Candida species resistant to fluconazole, which is applied as the first line drug in candidiasis treatment, increases every year. In such cases the application of echinocandin is necessary. Echinocandin susceptibility testing has become a routine laboratory practice in many countries due to the increasing...
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Influence of hydrostatic pump operation period on performance of a thrust bearing of a 125 MW pump-turbine
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A biocompatible poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimer octa-substituted with α-cyclodextrin towards the controlled release of doxorubicin hydrochloride from its ferrocenyl prodrug
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Certyfikacja wyrobów elektronicznych
PublicationDziałania jednostki certyfikującej wyroby mają na celu zapewnienie zaufania użytkownika do jakości wyrobu. Uzyskanie certyfikatu bezpieczeństwa dla wyrobu podlegającego temu obowiązkowi decyduje o wprowadzeniu go na rynek. W przypadku certyfikacji dobrowolnej, uzyskanie certyfikatu służy promocji wyrobu. Aktualnie wprowadzony jest w Polsce system oceny wyrobów obowiązujący w Unii Europejskiej (UE), oparty na dyrektywach nowego...
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The recovery of cyanide from gold leach = Odzysk cyjanku w ługowaniu złota
PublicationW artykule omówiono nową technologię odzyskiwania lub degradacji cyjanków z wykorzystaniem reaktora z wirującymi płynami. Testy polowe i próby laboratoryjne wykazały, że ta technologia może znaleźć zastosowanie do odpędzania i ponownej absorpcji HCN z wody procesowej powstającej w kopalni złota.
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A device for measuring heat flux on a rocket skin surface
PublicationA novel method for measuring heat flux on a surface is presented. It is an extensive upgrade of currently known heat flux sensors used mostly in civil engineering. As the thermal environment of launchers, especially sounding rocket can have an enormous negative effect on payload, careful considerations have to be taken in the process of preparing insulation. Usually, thermal data provided by the launch vehicle manufacturer is limited...
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Combined environmental testing device for picosatellites
PublicationAs access to space conditions becomes more available, both technically and economically, scientists’ interest in launching finer and more sophisticated experiments grows. To be qualified for launch, such experiments need to be carefully tested prior to the event. The tests should represent actual launch conditions as closely and in a detailed manner. Typical tests for payload include: vibration tests, thermal and vacuum tests,...
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Jednokanałowy rejstrator EKG z transmisją radiową.
PublicationW referacie zaprezentowano jednokanałowy rejestrator EKG z możliwością przesyłania pomiarów do komputera PC za pomocą transmisji radiowej. Dzięki zastosowaniu układów o niskim poborze mocy, oraz mikrokonwertera ADuC812 otrzymano urządzenie charakteryzujące się dobrymi parametrami pomiarowymi, przy niewielkiej komplikacji układowej i małym poborze prądu. Zastosowanie gotowych modułów teletransmisyjnych uprościło konstrukcję...
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Evaluation of Medical Staff Satisfaction for Workplace Architecture in Temporary COVID-19 Hospital: A Case Study in Gdańsk, Poland
PublicationThis article analyses the architecture that was used in the temporary AmberExpo hospital in Gdańsk, Poland which was installed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The construction of this type of facility is often based on experimental approaches, aimed at caring for patients suffering from an infectious disease in emergency conditions. In order to assess the level of employee satisfaction with the architectural and technical elements...
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Structure modification of acridine antitumor agents results in changes of enzymatic activity and gene expression of CYP3A4 isoenzyme in HepG2 cells.
PublicationEkspresja izoenzymu CYP3A4, który zaangażowany jest w metabolizm ok. 60% leków stosowanych klinicznie, może być modulowana przez takie czynniki jak: polimorfizm, czynniki transkrypcyjne oraz obecność ksenobiotyków. Przykładem induktorów genów kodujących izoenzym CYP3A4 jest fenobarbital i rifampicyna, których obecność w organizmie przyspiesza metabolizm innych leków stosowanych jednocześnie, które są substratami dla CYP3A4. Dlatego...
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Zamiast zakończenia. Adam Mickiewicz, Rosja i Rosjanie
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Adam Mickiewicz i Rosjanie (książka)
PublicationChoć mogłoby się wydawać, że tematyka związków Adama Mickiewicza z Rosjanami jest już wyeksploatowana, to zawartość prezentowanej monografii i jej interdyscyplinarny charakter wyraźnie temu przeczą. Przygotowane w nowatorskim ujęciu badawczym kolejne rozdziały książki przybliżają zapomniane bądź nieznane wręcz fakty dotyczące wielkiego pisarza – jego relacji z Rosjanami, recepcji jego dzieł w Rosji w XIX i XX wieku, a także...
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Efficiency of new method of removing noisy background from the sequence of MRI scans depending on structure elements used to morphological processing
PublicationPrzedstawiono nową metodę usuwania zaszumionego tła z sekwencji skanów MRI. Każdy skan zawiera przekrój mózgu i tło, oba zaszumione. Tło należy wykluczyć z dalszej analizy. Eliminacji tła dokonano dzięki zastosowaniu opisanego algorytmu wykorzystującego podstawowe operacje morfologiczne: dylację, erozję, otwarcie i zamknięcie do uprzednio zbinaryzowanych zbiorów MRI. Zaprezentowano wyniki przetwarzania otrzymane dla różnych kształtów...
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Wpływ wyboru elementu strukturalnego użytego w przetwarzaniu morfologicznym na skuteczność nowej metody usuwania tła z sekwencji MRI
PublicationZaprezentowano nową metodę usuwania zaszumionego tła z sekwencji skanów MRI. Na każdy skan składają się dwa obszary: przekrój mózgu i tło, oba zawierające szum. Tło powinno być odseparowane i wykluczone z dalszej analizy. Cel ten został osiągnięty dzięki zastosowaniu opisanego algorytmu, aplikującego podstawowe operacje morfologiczne: dylację, erozję, otwarcie i zamknięcie do uprzednio zbinaryzowanych zbiorów MRI. Pokazano rezultaty...
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Stability studies of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in different organic solvents and identification of their transformation products
PublicationGłównym problemem w laboratoriach analitycznych jest konserwacja próbek i ekstraktów przeznaczonych do analizy. Rozpatrując procesy degradacji z analitycznego punktu widzenia i związanej z tym wiarygodności uzyskiwanych wyników pod uwagę należy wziąć wpływ procesów degradacji w badanym elemencie środowiska na poziom stężenia składników śladowych; wpływ tych samych procesów na poziom składników śladowych w już pobranych próbkach...
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Optymalizacja pobudzeń dla celów identyfikacji parametrów modeli zmiennych stanu
PublicationW pracy omówiono zagadnienie optymalizacji pobudzeń dla celów identy-fikacji parametrów modeli kompartmentowych systemów farmakokine-tycznych opisanych w kategoriach zmiennych stanu. Przedstawiono pobu-dzenia optymalne zaprojektowane według kryterium A-optymalności. Zaprojektowane pobudzenia optymalne, w obrębie klasy pobudzeń o ograniczonej energii, zapewniają maksymalną osiągalną dokładność estymat parametrów. W farmakokinetyce...
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Low-Cost Modeling of Microwave Components by Means of Two-Stage Inverse/Forward Surrogates and Domain Confinement
PublicationFull-wave electromagnetic (EM) analysis is one of the most important tools in the design of modern microwave components and systems. EM simulation permits reliable evaluation of circuits at the presence of cross-coupling effects or substrate anisotropy, as well as for accounting for interactions with the immediate environment. However, repetitive analyses required by EM-driven procedures, such as parametric optimization or statistical...
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Reduced-Cost Microwave Design Closure by Multi-Resolution EM Simulations and Knowledge-Based Model Management
PublicationParameter adjustment through numerical optimization has become a commonplace of contemporary microwave engineering. Although circuit theory methods are ubiquitous in the development of microwave components, the initial designs obtained with such tools have to be further tuned to improve the system performance. This is particularly pertinent to miniaturized structures, where the cross-coupling effects cannot be adequately accounted...
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Evaluation of Immobilization of Selected Peat-Isolated Yeast Strains of the Species Candida albicans and Candida subhashii on the Surface of Artificial Support Materials Used for Biotrickling Filtration
PublicationThe paper describes the process of n-butanol abatement by unicellular fungi, able to deplete n-butanol content in gas, by using n-butanol as source of carbon. Isolated and identified fungi species Candida albicans and Candida subhashii were subjected to a viability process via assimilation of carbon from hydrophilic and hydrophobic compounds. The isolates, which exhibited the ability to assimilate carbon, were immobilized on four...
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Expedited Globalized Antenna Optimization by Principal Components and Variable-Fidelity EM Simulations: Application to Microstrip Antenna Design
PublicationParameter optimization, also referred to as design closure, is imperative in the development of modern antennas. Theoretical considerations along with rough dimension adjustment through supervised parameter sweeping can only yield initial designs that need to be further tuned to boost the antenna performance. The major challenges include handling of multi-dimensional parameter spaces while accounting for several objectives and...
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Improved-Efficacy Optimization of Compact Microwave Passives by Means of Frequency-Related Regularization
PublicationElectromagnetic (EM)-driven optimization is an important part of microwave design, especially for miniaturized components where the cross-coupling effects in tightly arranged layouts make traditional (e.g., equivalent network) representations grossly inaccurate. Efficient parameter tuning requires reasonably good initial designs, which are difficult to be rendered for newly developed structures or when re-design for different operating...
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Reduced-Cost Constrained Modeling of Microwave and Antenna Components: Recent Advances
PublicationElectromagnetic (EM) simulation models are ubiquitous in the design of microwave and antenna components. EM analysis is reliable but CPU intensive. In particular, multiple simulations entailed by parametric optimization or uncertainty quantification may considerably slow down the design processes. In order to address this problem, it is possible to employ fast metamodels. Here, the popular solution approaches are approximation...
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Improved Design Closure of Compact Microwave Circuits by Means of Performance Requirement Adaptation
PublicationNumerical optimization procedures have been widely used in the design of microwave components and systems. Most often, optimization algorithms are applied at the later stages of the design process to tune the geometry and/or material parameter values. To ensure sufficient accuracy, parameter adjustment is realized at the level of full-wave electromagnetic (EM) analysis, which creates perhaps the most important bottleneck due to...
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On Fast Multi-objective Optimization of Antenna Structures Using Pareto Front Triangulation and Inverse Surrogates
PublicationDesign of contemporary antenna systems is a challenging endeavor, where conceptual developments and initial parametric studies, interleaved with topology evolution, are followed by a meticulous adjustment of the structure dimensions. The latter is necessary to boost the antenna performance as much as possible, and often requires handling several and often conflicting objectives, pertinent to both electrical and field properties...
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Expedited Trust-Region-Based Design Closure of Antennas by Variable-Resolution EM Simulations
PublicationThe observed growth in the complexity of modern antenna topologies fostered a widespread employment of numerical optimization methods as the primary tools for final adjustment of the system parameters. This is mainly caused by insufficiency of traditional design closure approaches, largely based on parameter sweeping. Reliable evaluation of complex antenna structures requires full-wave electromagnetic (EM) analysis. Yet, EM-driven...
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Reduced-Cost Two-Level Surrogate Antenna Modeling using Domain Confinement and Response Features
PublicationElectromagnetic (EM) simulation tools have become indispensable in the design of contemporary antennas. Still, the major setback of EM-driven design is the associated computational overhead. This is because a single full-wave simulation may take from dozens of seconds up to several hours, thus, the cost of solving design tasks that involve multiple EM analyses may turn unmanageable. This is where faster system representations (surrogates)...
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Circularly Polarized Antenna Array design with the Potential of Gain-Size Trade-off and Omnidirectional Radiation for Millimeter-Wave Small Base Station Applications
PublicationThis paper presents the design and validation of a slot-patch-hybrid circularly polarized antenna array for 28 GHz millimeter (mm) wave (mm-wave) applications. The proposed design has a simple geometry that facilitates the fabrication process, which is otherwise a challenging task due to the sub-mm dimensions of the circuit in the mm-wave band. In the proposed structure, aperture-coupled series slot-fed array is utilized to excite...
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Design and Characterization of a Planar Structure Wideband Millimeter-Wave Antenna with Wide Beamwidth for Wearable off-body Communication Applications
PublicationThis letter presents the design of a planar single-layer wideband antenna featuring wide beamwidth has well as high and stable in-band gain. The proposed antenna is a planar monopole fed by a bottom-grounded coplanar waveguide to realize wide beamwidth in both the xz- and yz-planes. Simultaneous optimization of all adjustable antenna parameters, carried out at the full-wave electromagnetic simulation level. The constructive interference...
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On Decision-Making Strategies for Improved-Reliability Size Reduction of Microwave Passives: Intermittent Correction of Equality Constraints and Adaptive Handling of Inequality Constraints
PublicationDesign optimization of passive microwave components is an intricate process, especially if the primary objective is a reduction of the physical size of the structure. The latter has become an important design consideration for a growing number of modern applications (mobile communications, wearable/implantable devices, internet of things), where miniaturization is imperative due to a limited space allocated for the electronic circuitry....
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Tolerance-Aware Optimization of Microwave Circuits by Means of Principal Directions and Domain-Restricted Metamodels
PublicationPractical microwave design is most often carried out in the nominal sense. Yet, in some cases, performance degradation due to uncertainties may lead to the system failing to meet the prescribed specifications. Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is therefore important yet intricate from numerical standpoint, especially when the circuit at hand is to be evaluated using electromagnetic (EM) simulation tools. Tolerance-aware...