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The following topics were dealt with: photovoltaic solar cells; standardisation; system prognostics; health management; manufacturing process; test technology; advanced packaging; materials processing; modelling, simulation and design; power electronics; electronics system integration; healthcare; micro and nano systems; reliability; energy sources and optoelectronics.
This paper discusses about the joint research and development funding activity that aims on enhancing the quality of life of older people and strengthen the industrial base in Europe through the use of information and communication technologies.
Wafer-Level Chip-Scale-Packaging (WLCSP) and System-in-Package (SiP) integration recently confirmed themselves as two long lasting increasing trends of the semiconductor industry. Even though they are driven by the same motivations of miniaturization and performance enhancement, they still follow parallel tracks, and rarely mix with one another in products. However, there is evidence that once reliability...
In its 20 years in the mainstream, the cellular handset has rapidly become one of the most powerful product concepts ever invented. It is ubiquitously deployed, and is used for both work and leisure. User demands and the ingenuity of its developers have combined to see it absorb increasing numbers of complex functions. And, just as users are demanding more features from manufacturers, so handset designers...
Summary form only given. The author recalls his early exposures to nonlinearity and chaotic systems. He soon realized that very little was known or understood about nonlinearity in general. It also came as a bit of a shock to realize that there were no generalised mathematical tools or methodologies to help. In order to illustrate the importance of this topic and the potential for error, and exploitation,...
Technologypsilas impact on human health has been a concern for at least 200 years. These concerns range from the waste and pollution due to mining and heavy manufacturing to emissions from the automobile and fossil fuel power plants. Now the proliferation of electronic products and their manufacture can pose additional threats to the now fragile balance in the Earthpsilas eco systems. While posing...
UK government appears to have given a "green light" to a new generation of reactors and the UK Prime Minister has encouraged "more ambitious" nuclear plans to tackle the oil crisis (27th May, 2008). However, recently there have been significant changes of direction such as using foreign companies for nuclear new-build, questions about spent-fuel reprocessing, and radwaste packaging,...
This paper explores the options open to National Parks to develop a new, nationally important role in addressing the twin challenges through landscape scale management, soil carbon management, water management, renewable energy generation and localised food production. The paper argues that significant additional investment is required to support this expanded remit and what is possible in National...
Pronounced changes in temperature, salinity (density) and upwelling have occurred in surface and deeper waters of the oceans, contributing with changing patterns and strength of winds to an alteration in ocean circulation. Together these changes have a potentially large impact through feedbacks on climate change.
As one of the most rapidly growing industry in recent years, commercialized crystalline silicon solar cell has faced a lot of challenge, especially from its similar application, the thin film solar cell technology. In order to survive at this crucial competition, there are several ways to overcome the difficulties. However, all the evidence point to the same way only, that is to apply the high efficiency...
Application of building-integrated photovoltaic technology (BIPV) has developed rapidly in the world and the progress in Hong Kong is also encouraging in recent years since the first such experimental system was built on the campus of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. More than 1 MWp of PV modules have been integrated in buildings in this small territory. The most significant change is that property...
The concept of third generation photovoltaics is to significantly increase device efficiencies whilst still using thin film processes and abundant non-toxic materials. This can be achieved by circumventing the Shockley-Queisser limit for single band gap devices, using multiple energy threshold approaches. Such an approach can be realised either by incorporating multiple energy levels in tandem or...
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