The book starts with basic semiconductor physics, followed by some aspects of production technology. It explains power diodes, thyristors, MOSFETs and IGBTs as well as discusses standard packaging ...technologies, materials and reliability investigations.
Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites provides the first in-depth discussion of nano-dielectrics, an emerging and fast moving topic in electrical insulation. The text begins with an overview of the ...background, principles and promise of nanodielectrics, followed by a discussion of the processing of nanocomposites and then proceeds with special considerations of clay based processes, mechanical, thermal and electric properties and surface properties as well as erosion resistance. Carbon nanotubes are discussed as a means of creation of non linear conductivity, the text concludes with a industrial applications perspective.
Born in Ferrara in 1956, Riccardo Marino, received his degree in Nuclear engineering "cum laude" in July 1979 and the Master in Systems Engineering in 1981 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". ...In 1982 he obtained the title of Doctor of Science in System Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Since 1984 he has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" where he is Professor of Systems Theory (he was a researcher from 1984 to 1987 and Associate Professor from 1987 to 1990). He taught the course on Systems Theory from 1987 to 1999, the course on Dynamical Systems from 2000 to 2005. He currently teaches from 2000 the course on Nonlinear Systems. Professor Marino has visited the following institutions collaborating on joint research programs: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 1985/86, in 1989 and in 1990, Twente University in Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1986, Polytechnik of Kiev, Ukraine, in 1988, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA in 1992, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, in 1999, Sophia University, Tokyo, in 2002 and in 2007. He is co-author of the book Nonlinear Control Design: Geometric, Adaptive and Robust, Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead, 1995, of more than 70 journal papers and more than 100 communications in international congresses. His scientific interests and contributions are mainly on the design of estimation and control algorithms and their applications to robots, electric machines, and vehicles. Professor Marino was the coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Sensor and Learning Systems Engineering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata from 1999 to 2007. He was associate editor of several scientific journals, member of the Directing Board of the European Control Association and director of several research projects financed by the Italian Ministry of University. Patrizio Tomei was born in Rome, Italy, on June 21, 1954. He received the "dottore" degree in Electronic Engineering in 1980 and the "dottore di ricerca" degree in 1987, both from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is currently Professor of Adaptive Systems at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". He is co-author (with R. Marino) of the book Nonlinear Control Design (Prentice Hall, 1995). His research interests are in adaptive control, nonlinear control, robotics, and control of electrical machines. Cristiano Maria Verrelli was born in Italy on September 12, 1977. He received the Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" in 2005. He has been visiting scholar at Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes L2S (Supélec, Gif-Sur-Yvette) and at Laboratoire Systèmes Complexes LSC (Evry) in 2004 and 2005. He currently is a Researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". His research interests are in robust adaptive nonlinear control with application to electrical machines.
This monograph is essentially the first roadmap for transparent electronics. It will define and assess what and where the field is, where it is going, and what needs to happen to get it there. ...Although the central focus of this monograph involves transparent electronics, many of the materials, devices, circuits, and process integration strategies discussed will be of great interest to researchers working in other emerging fields, including printed electronics, large-area electronics, low-cost electronics, and disposable electronics.
This book is the first graduate-level textbook presenting a comprehensive treatment of Data Converters. It provides comprehensive definition of the parameters used to specify data converters, and ...covers all the architectures used in Nyquist-rate data converters.
" During the last decade many new concepts have been proposed for improving the performance of power MOSFETs. The results of this research are dispersed in the technical literature among journal ...articles and abstracts of conferences. Consequently, the information is not readily available to researchers and practicing engineers in the power device community. There is no cohesive treatment of the ideas to provide an assessment of the relative merits of the ideas. ""Advanced Power MOSFET Concepts"" provides an in-depth treatment of the physics of operation of advanced power MOSFETs. Analytical models for explaining the operation of all the advanced power MOSFETs will be developed. The results of numerical simulations will be provided to give additional insight into the device physics and validate the analytical models. The results of two-dimensional simulations will be provided to corroborate the analytical models and give greater insight into the device operation."
