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Manufacturers
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Contact Information
Links to Thompson Consulting other pages
Application
Notes, Patents, Short Courses, Etc.
Findarticles.com
NASA Engineering Links
Page
Search
Adobe PDF files via Google
Haus & Melcher
Electromagnetic Fields textbook online --- (including some interesting
demonstrations) --- http://web.mit.edu/6.013_book/www/book.html
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ---
searchable patent database with images --- www.uspto.gov
Scirus
--- search tool for scientific information
BATTERIES - Nicads, Lithium Ion, etc.
National Semiconductor
LM3621
Maxim App. Notes on
battery management
COIL WINDING
Coil winding
notes
DC/DC CONVERTER DESIGN
Design notes ---
Brad Suppanz
Jerry Foutz Switching-Mode Power Supply
Design
Power Integrations --- application notes
http://www.eng.uts.edu.au/~venkat/pe_html/pe07_nc8.htm
National Semiconductor list of all
application notes
Maxim list of all application
notes
Ridley Engineering
SMPS Power Supplies, Inc. ---
manufacturer’s database
SGS
Thomson application notes
Texas
Instruments --- power management application notes
Zetex --- list of all
application notes
Power Integrations --- list of all
application notes
ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD)
Electrostatic Discharge Association:
http://www.esda.org/
ESD Journal
Evaluation Engineering Journal
National Semiconductor ESD
webpage
Static Electricity page --- http://www.amasci.com/emotor/statelec.html
EMI ELECTROMAGNETIC
INTERFERENCE
Maxim
article on EMI
Power
Integrations EMI app note
Power Integrations --- list of all
application notes
FEYNMAN
Feynman
1965 Nobel Prize lecture
List of all kinds of Feynman
videos and books
GAUSSMETERS
Magnetic Instrumentation, Inc. ---
http://www.maginst.com/gauss.html
NIST paper on Hall
measurements --- http://www.eeel.nist.gov/812/hall.html
FW Bell Gaussmeters ---
(now owned by Sypris)
HEAT TRANSFER, COOLING, ETC
Thermal
conductivity of selected materials --- Burr Brown ---
http://www.burr-brown.com/download/ABs/AB-030.pdf
Thermal
management --- http://www.extron.com/company/article.aspx?id=thermalmgt1_ts
EDN Article
--- Quickly Estimate Cooling Requirements --- http://www.extron.com/company/article.aspx?id=thermalmgt1_ts
10
Stupid Things Engineers do in Cooling
Nidec --- Air Cooling and
Fan Technology --- http://www.nidec.com/aircooling/fantech.htm
“All
you Need to Know About Fans”
Articles from
“Electronics Cooling” Magazine
INDUCTANCE
Estimating
inductance of wire loops ---
http://www.pels.org/Comm/Publications/Newsletter/9902/Vol11No2.htm#Tricks
Stanford paper
on chip planar inductors ---
http://www-smirc.stanford.edu/papers/IEDM98s-mohan.pdf
http://smirc.stanford.edu/papers/Orals99s-mohan.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/reports/inductance_expressions.pdf
using inductors for
shunt peaking --- http://smirc.stanford.edu/papers/JSSC00MAR-mohan.pdf
spiral inductor design
--- http://wws2.uncc.edu/tpw/papers/spiral.pdf
JAVA applet for
calculating inductance of air core inductors ---
http://www.oz.net/~coilgun/mark2/inductorsim.htm
INDUCTION MOTOR MODELING
LASER DIODES
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3931/laserdio.htm
Laser
diode tutorial
ILX
Lightwave appl. note on laser failures
LASER DIODE FAILURE MECHANISMS
http://www.spie.org/web/abstracts/2300/2382.html
MAGLEV APPLICATION NOTES
Search
Google --- "Maglev"
Seminar
on Maglev vehicles ---
http://www.teicontrols.com/notes/SeminarEE155/MaglevVehicles.pdf
superconductor
+ permanent magnet levitation ---
http://www.fys.uio.no/faststoff/ltl/files/johansen-jap93.pdf
DIAMAGNETIC LEVITATION
Levitating frog paper ---
http://www.sci.kun.nl/hfml/frog-ejp.pdf
Nature article
--- http://www.physics.ucla.edu/marty/diamag/magnet.pdf
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/marty/diamag/levidot.pdf
http://www.sci.kun.nl/hfml/fingertip.html
ELECTRODYNAMIC (EDS) Maglev
Marc
Thompson paper on AC levitation
Maglifter
--- from NASA --- http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/astptechbriefs/Maglev.pdf
another maglifter IEEE
T. Mag. paper --- http://w3.ascinc.org/manuscripts/papers/1LL08.pdf
National Maglev Initiative ---
final report --- http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/TNM.html
Princeton
1991 study on maglev technology ---
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk1/1991/9132/913206.PDF
maglev technology overview
paper --- http://www.acmaglev.com/images/taska.pdf
Scientific
American Article --- "Racing to Oblivion?"
MIT Real player movie on
AC electrodynamic levitation ---
http://web.mit.edu/6.013_book/www/book.html
http://sensor.northgrum.com/stc/asc/pdf/lnb02.pdf
ELECTROMAGNETIC (
High Tc EMS ---
http://sensor.northgrum.com/stc/asc/pdf/lnb02.pdf
Trumper
paper on magnetic bearings
Swiss Metro project --- http://leiwww.epfl.ch/publications/darrigo_rufer_maglev_00.pdf
MAGNETIC DESIGN
.
Maxwell's
equations review --- interesting problems and lots of worked solutions ---
http://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/cochran/outline.html
magnetic
field calculation for magnetic recording ---
http://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/cochran/chpt04.pdf
magnetic
field calculation for various configurations ---
http://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/cochran/chpt03.pdf
HALBACH ARRAYS
French
paper on Halbach arrays ---
http://www.edpsciences.org/articles/epjap/pdf/1999/01/ap73102.pdf
http://www.ifr.mavt.ethz.ch/movic98/proceedings/47c.pdf
"Forces
inside permanent magnet assemblies" ---
http://www-sldnt.slac.stanford.edu/nlc/notes/Bowden_Eng/ABC_TechNote-067_2.pdf
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/class/00W/150_Rosenzweig/notes/Chapter6.pdf
"Effective
use of NdFeB" ---
http://www.magnequench.com/tech_resources/tech_center/reference/white_paper/whitepaper01.pdf
http://www.eml.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/library/kokusai/download/1998/hos_hungary.pdf
MAGNET WIRE
Copper
Wire Figures
Litz wire
application note
MAGNETIC SENSING
Micromachines
article on magnetic field sensing
MAGNETIC SHIELDING
Advance Magnetics ---
shielding design eqns.
MuShield
Amuneal Manufacturing Corp. --- strategies for
magnetic shielding design
VitaTech ---
magnetic and electric noise sources
ONLINE COURSES
Online
power electronics course
OPTOELECTRONICS APP NOTES
Laser course online
PATENT SEARCHING
Delphion database ---
http://www.delphion.com/cgi-bin/patsearch
Google patents
Patent
searching resources
US Patent and Trademark Office
--http://www.uspto.gov/patft/
PERMANENT MAGNETS
Dexter Magnetics
Group Arnold
Magnet Sales - design
tools
MMPA permanent magnet tutorial
--- http://www.mmpa.org/mmpapmg-88.pdf
MMPA standards for permanent magnets
---- http://www.mmpa.org/mmpa0100.pdf
Ohio state list of
permanent magnet papers ---
http://eewww.eng.ohio-state.edu/~procaa/resear.htm
Permanent magnet
motor paper --- http://eewww.eng.ohio-state.edu/~procaa/pdf/pm1.pdf
Princeton Magnetics -
"Magnet Design"
Stanford Magnetics -
Comparison of magnetic materials
Fun with Neodymium Magnets
ForceField ---- lots
of magnet demos, they also sell magnets
Peter
Campbell paper on energy stored in permanent magnets ---
http://www.magnequench.com/tech_resources/tech_center/reference/white_paper/comments_energy_in_mag.pdf
Bill Beaty's magnetic fun
page
"Cool experiments
with magnets" from Magnet Man
"Novel permanent
magnets and their applications" ---
http://www.grouparnold.com/mtc/pdf/novel_pm.pdf
"Understanding
permanent magnets,"
http://www.allegromicro.com/techpub2/arnold/tn_9802.pdf
http://www.magnequench.com/tech_resources/tech_center/reference/white_paper/CoilWinding2000.pdf
"Effective
use of NdFeB" ---
http://www.magnequench.com/tech_resources/tech_center/reference/white_paper/whitepaper01.pdf
papers on permanent magnet/motor design
--- http://www.consult-g2.com/
application
note on magnetic and permanent magnet design ---
http://www.eece.unm.edu/faculty/humphrie/cpa/chap05.pdf
interesting paper
on different PM arrangements ---
http://mag-net.ee.umist.ac.uk/reports/P15/p15.html
PM articles ---
http://mag-net.ee.umist.ac.uk/
PM
design for motors ---
http://www.ekc.kth.se/eme/publ/pdf/peter_hansi_london2000.pdf
Dexter mag
papers on PM design --- http://www.comppub.com/publications/MSM/2000/pdf/T41.01.pdf
FIELD CALCULATIONS
paper
showing field from bar magnet ---
http://www.fys.uio.no/faststoff/ltl/files/johansen-jap93.pdf
field calculation
paper, cylindrical bar magnet ---
http://www.consult-g2.com/papers/paper16/paper.html
Online field strength
calculator for cylindrical and bar magnet ---
http://www.grouparnold.com/mtc/calc_gauss.htm
Magnet Sales
calculators --- http://www.magnetsales.com/Design/Tools1.htm#rect
HALBACH ARRAY
ANALYSIS
Another
inductrack paper online
POWER DISTRIBUTION
Eaton
power distribution online tutorial
Case
study of Belgian power distribution system
POWER GENERATION APPLICATION NOTES
http://www.polarpowerinc.com/info/y2k-year2000.htm
alternative energy links
http://smallhydropower.com/
http://www.nopowernoproblem.com/wind%20systems.htm
RESONANT SCANNERS
Resonant
scanner Master's thesis ---
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/tidwell/index.html
MEMS paper
--- http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~cmartin/work/mems/mems_paper.pdf
http://mems.mirc.gatech.edu/research/magnetic.html
Berkeley
paper on resonant scanner ---
http://bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/conference/hh1994/jjudy/paper.pdf
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/ConstellationClassMissions/eyre.pdf
Boston
IEEE Consultants' Network
IEEE Consultants main page
Independent Computer Consultants Association
(ICCA)
http://www.referrals.com
http://www.4expertise.com
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
MIT Libraries
MIT Libraries
--- database information
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
W.P.I. Electrical Engineering Department
W.P.I. Webpage of Marc
Thompson
THEORETICAL
Earnshaw's
theorem
Argonne National Lab Page
Boeing
Maglev page
Brookhaven lab Maglev
links
California High Speed
Rail/Maglev
Encarta
Encyclopedia MAGLEV listing
FTA --- Federal Transit Administration
French Site with
Maglev Pictures
High Speed Ground Transportation Association
Maglev article by
Taylor Moore
Maglev Links
--- U of Washington
Magnemotion, Inc.
National Maglev Initiative Final
Report
Summary of National Maglev
Initiative Reports
Popular
Mechanics article
RTRI
Home Page
RTRI
List of Other Maglev Links
Miyazaki Test Center
History
of Japanese Maglev R/D
Scientific
American Article
Transrapid Page
Another page
University of Alabama at
Huntsville High Speed Ground Transportation Page
Yahoo MAGLEV search
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/whatsnew.htm
http://www3.sunydutchess.edu/~web-mpcs/cavalieri/maglev.html
TOYS
http://scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/suspension.html
EDDY CURRENT BRAKES
Dynamatic
DISTRIBUTORS
Allied Avnet
Digikey
Hamilton Hallmark
Marshall Electronics
Newark Electronics
Sager Electronics
ICs
Analog Devices
Apex Microtechnology
Burr-Brown
Cherry Semiconductor
Elantec
Fairchild Semiconductor
GMT Microelectronics
Harris/Intersil Semiconductor
Linear Technology
Maxim
Micrel
MicroLinear
Motorola
National Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor
Philips Semiconductor
Sipex --- power management
Texas Instruments
Unitrode
LASER DRIVERS
PULSED DRIVERS
http://www.avtechpulse.com/appnote/
250 mA, 300 kHz http://www.ichaus.de/english/text/product_guide/wjwjz.htm
Analog
Devices IC laser driver
http://www.analog.com/publications/magazines/Dialogue/29-3/200_mhz.html
Delta Developments
EO Devices
Hytek
Microsystems
ILX Lightwave
Melles
Griot driver
Meshtel --- low power (<
1A) drivers
NVG, Inc.
Panasonic
Wavelength Electronics
35 MHz, 1W driver
Pulsed laser drivers
Fast laser driver
--- http://homepage.tinet.ie/~lighthouses/mc2060-3.html
DC DRIVERS
Opto Power Driver, 65A laser driver -- http://tateweb.com/news-opc-PS6510.htm
http://www.analogmodules.com/datasheet/mod779A.htm
http://www.atcsd.neva.ru/products/drivers.htm
http://www.ramoptical.com/photonics/section1/5405.htm
MAGNETICS
EMI Suppression
Taiyo Yuden
MISCELLANEOUS
Associate Component Tech. --- surface mount
transformers
AVX
Bourns
Coilcraft
Coiltronics
Dexter Magnetic Materials
DT Magnetics
ELNA --- ferrites
Intusoft ---- power supply
application notes, etc.
Kane Magnetics
--- application notes on magnetic design
Lodestone Pacific
MHW --- power ferrites
MuRata
Prem Magnetics
Pulse Engineering
Shogyo
Signal Transformer
Steward --- ferrite cores
Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd, Japan
Talema Electronics
Toko America --- surface mount inductors
Ulveco toroidal transformers
Yahoo
Relays, Inductors and Coils Listing
MAGNET CORES
DT Magnetics
Eastern Components, Inc. ---
distributor
Elite Magnetics, Inc.
Fair-Rite
Group Arnold
Magnetics, Inc.
Micrometals
MMG North America
Philips
--- ferrites
Philips ferrites
material properties
Renco
Signal Transformer
MAGNET WIRE
MWS Wire Industries
POWER TRANSFORMERS
Osborne
Transformer
HALL SENSORS
Cherry Semiconductor
F.
W. Bell
F. W. Bell Hall
Sensor Tutorial
LEM
Melixis
PERMANENT MAGNETS
Yahoo search
for "permanent magnets"
China Rare Earth Magnet Products LTD
--- http://www.permanentmagnet.com/
Group Arnold
Hangzhou Permanent Magnet Group ---
http://www.china-hpmg.com/
Magnet Sales
The Magnet Source
MagnetWeb search for U.S.
manufacturers
MagnetWeb search for Asian
manufacturers
Stanford Magnetics
TRANSFORMERS / INDUCTORS
DT Magnetics
Group Arnold
Newport Components
Prem Magnetics
Pulse Engineering
Signal Transformer ---- also
transformer application notes
PLANAR TRANSFORMERS
Flat Transformer Technology
Electronic
Design Magazine article
Signal Transformer
Telcon
Payton America
Philips
Innocore --- technical
notes on planar transformers
Neosid
OTHER
MiniCircuits --- RF stuff
Murata quartz crystals
PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES
American Piezo Ceramics
Mitsui petrochemical
press release
Piezo Systems --- piezo devices, Cambridge
MA
Applications information
Polytec PI Home Page
Queen's college
paper on piezoelectric transformers
SamRyun Co. --- piezo
transformers
Sony
products
Toko press release
POWER CONVERTERS
Astec
Cherry Semiconductor
CoselUsa --- DC/DC
Datel --- DC/DC converters
Ericsson --- surface mount DC/DC converters
IMP --- Electroluminescent Lamp
Drivers
Interpoint
Lambda
Linfinity --- inverters
Melcher --- DC/DC
Pico Electronics --- DC/DC
converters
Power Convertibles --- DC/DC
Power Integrations --- converter controllers
- http://www.powerint.com/
Power Trends
RO Associates
Seiko Instruments USA --- switching
regulators
TDK --- inverters, DC/DC
Vicor
POWER PASSIVE DEVICES
Littelfuse
NEC --- power
relays
Omron Relays
Sanyo --- capacitors
Unitrode Current Sensor
Wima --- snubber caps
POWER RESISTORS
AVX Corp. --- sensing resistors
Caddock --- power resistors, current sensing
resistors
IRC --- power
resistors, current sense resistors
Isotek --- current sensing resistors
Kepco
Ohmite --- resistors
Precision Resistor
Prime Technology
Riedon --- power resistors
Vishay
POWER SEMICONDUCTORS
Advanced Power Technology
Allegro --- motor controllers, etc.
Eupec --- IGBTs
International Rectifier
IXYS --- power modules
Magepower Semiconductor
Powerex
SGS-Thomson
Shindengen America, Inc. --- power
surface mount
Siliconix
Solitron --- power devices
Supertex
Teccor --- thyristors
Temic
Toshiba --- IGBTs
POWER SUPPLIES
48VDC Company
STEELS
Armco
SURFACE
Rohm
Foster-Miller
IS Robotics
Polaroid Corporation
Thornton Associates, Inc.,
Magnemotion, Inc.,
CATALOGS
Digikey
EDTN Network E-Search
Electronics Buyer's News Guide
Electronic Engineer Master Online
IC Master
Thomas Registry
MAGAZINES
Discover Magazine Online
ECN (Electronic Components News)
EDN
EE Times
Electronic Design
ESD Journal
Evaluation Engineering Journal
IBM Journal of Research
IEEE Potentials Magazine
IEEE Spectrum
Machine Design
PCIM --- Power Conversion & Intelligent
Motion
RF Design
Scientific American
Sensors
Test & Measurement World
Yahoo
Electronics Magazines Listing
Big List of Electronics
Trade Magazines
NEWSPAPERS
New York Times
NASA Langley 1997
Technical Reports Online
FEA
Ansoft
Biot Savart magnetic modeling
Field Precision
Magsoft
Tera Analysis --- QuickField,
with evaluation and student version software
Vector Fields
big list of commercial FEA sites
http://femm.foster-miller.net/wiki/HomePage
--- free FEMM software for magnetic
FEA
list of commercial codes
OTHER
Demonstrations in Signals, Systems and
Control ---
Mathematica/ Wolfram Research
Microsim/Orcad
Penzar --- SPICE
Links to online
SPICE references
PowerSim
MATLAB
Mathworks/ MATLAB
Control
Tutorials for Matlab --- Carnegie Mellon
Minicourse
on PDE Toolbox
Indiana University
MATLAB page ---- lots of links here
PDE
toolbox --- http://www.indiana.edu/~statmath/math/matlab/pde/
Magnetar
Corporation --- manufacturer of permanent magnet eddy current brakes
IBM
Patent Search Engine
U.S. Library of Congress
NASA Commercial Technology Network
Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
Homepage
Tech Expo --- THE EXPOSITION OF HIGH
TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES & PRODUCTS ON THE WWW
NASA Engineering Links
Page
POWER ELECTRONICS
LINKS
IEEE Main Page
IEEE Power Electronics Society
IEEE
Power Electronics Society Newsletter
IEEE Transactions on
Magnetics
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
POWER ELECTRONICS
PCIM --- glossary of power
electronics terms
Siliconix/Temic Power
Conversion Application Notes
Online
Interactive Power Electronics Text
Berkeley Power Electronics Group Page
CalTech Power Electronics Group
Ridley Engineering
Venable Industries ---
papers on DC/DC converter design
Prof. Robert Erickson
Webpage
SEARCH ENGINES
Google
Altavista
Findlink
Galaxy
--- Engineering and Technology
Goto
Starting Point
FLYWHEEL ENERGY
STORAGE
Acumentrics --- commercial
composite flywheel power system
Altavista
search for "flywheel energy storage"
Argonne Labs
--- storage using HTS
ASPES Engineering AG
Composite
Flywheel Energy Storage -- PSU
Flywheel Energy Systems, Inc.
MIT
Media Lab flywheel stuff
NASA flywheel
page --- http://godzilla.lerc.nasa.gov/ppo/flywheel/program.html
University
of Washington page
http://moon.cps.msu.edu/demos/flywheel/index.html
Mechanical Engineering Magazine ---
composites article
MetaCrawler
Search Result for "flywheel energy storage composite"
More NASA
flywheel links
Satcon papers on flywheel
bearings
Trinity Flywheel Power
SBIR
DOD SBIR page
DOT SBIR page
NASA SBIR page
NSF SBIR page
SBIR information page
SBA list of SBIR conferences and seminars
Links
Maglev Research at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute and other Design Seminars
Links to manufacturers' websites, applications notes, etc.
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