Sentences with phrase «of capacitors»

Unlike the GS (and virtually all other current hybrids), a production version of the FT - HS would make use of a capacitor system designed specifically for quick charging and increased performance.

Firing up the lasers When researchers attempt ignition, a bank of capacitors charges up and triggers a flash of light at the master oscillator that generates 192 laser beams.

This nonlinear approach — focusing on frequency shifts relative to signal strength rather than the frequency shifts alone — is especially useful because it is not affected by slight variations in size of the capacitors.

Whereas a battery or a fuel cell creates electricity using chemical reactions, the most basic type of capacitor employs two narrowly separated conductive plates.

Supercapacitors combine useful qualities of both — the fast charge / discharge of capacitors and high - energy capacity of batteries — into one package.

Powerpoint covering the theory of combinations of capacitors in series and parallel.

After first announcing its exit from Fort Edward last October, General Electric has pushed back the closure of its capacitor manufacturing facility until May.

In that reading, it's just a case of guiding the continuing evolution of the capacitor.

If your car could drive 500 km on a tank of petrol, it would run little more than 16 metres using the same weight of capacitors.

Researchers briefly apply an electric field across the electrodes of a capacitor, exciting a vibration at a specific frequency.

It is called Shiva Star, after the Hindu god of destruction, and for the starlike pattern formed by six rows of capacitor banks arrayed radially around a two - meter - high hub of electrodes and coils.

The lab's blast walls were up; sheets of Kevlar hung to catch shrapnel; banks of capacitors on the co-opted Air Force experiment primed to unleash 12 million amps of current; X-ray detectors set to snag bursts of photons; bottles of celebratory champagne chilled.

For example, every handheld device has hundreds of capacitors, which are dielectric components that can store and manage electric charge.

He said LIG can easily be turned into a supercapacitor, which combines the fast - charging, power - storing capacity of a capacitor with the higher energy - delivering capability, though not yet as high as in a battery.

Covers the application of capacitors and the theory of how to calculate the energy stored in capacitors.

36 marks worth of capacitor calculation questions, long exam - style questions, with the marking scheme attached.

The use of a capacitor allows much more rapid peak storage of energy, and at higher voltages.

The steering wheel controls have also been replaced by conventional buttons to a set of capacitor - based touch - sensitive buttons that are backlit.

My overall 401k return for 2010 was 17.0 % using 5 different index funds (Mainly S&P 500 and Russell 2500 with some foreign stuff mixed in), a very small amount of company stock, and a little bit of stable value to use as a sort of capacitor to store money when stocks are too high to buy.

Successfully represented a Japanese executive in the Department of Justice's criminal investigation of price fixing of capacitors by obtaining a non-prosecution agreement for the executive

Don't worry about it until you get quite confident in your understanding of capacitors since inductors are intuitively harder to figure out and mathematically both components are treated very similarly.

The current technology used by Apple, which is an active capacitive fingerprint sensor, works by turning the fingerprint into one side of a capacitor, with a coupling through the conductive bezel around the platen.

Most electronics make liberal use of capacitors, which are basically tiny batteries.

A built - in digital feedback loop equalizes the charging times by reconnecting the temperature - dependent current source to a capacitor of a different size — the size of this capacitor is directly proportional to the actual temperature.

Several other types of capacitor are available for specialist applications.

This procedure entails placement of an electromagnetic coil on the scalp; high - intensity electrical current is rapidly turned on and off in the coil through the discharge of capacitors.

Ultracapacitors, which have energy - storage capacity much larger than standard capacitors, were previously made using «activated carbon to coat the plates of the capacitor,» Schindall says.

Previously, engineers have mimicked this process using combinations of capacitors and silicon transistors, which can be complex and difficult to scale down, Wright explains in his commentary.

What's needed are banks of capacitors that store up energy at fueling stations.

I don't believe charging of capacitors could occur for more than a second, or else the capacitors would need to be very, very large indeed.

Currently, the polymer film system only generates about 5.6 nanowatts, which isn't enough to power most devices, but it could be used to drive these nano - and microelectronic devices through the use of capacitors to store the generated electricity.

My husband took it apart and one of the capacitors had shattered.