Typical wireless power transfer (WPT) systems on the market charge only a single receiver at a time. However, it can be expected that the need will arise to charge multiple devices at once by a single transmitter. Unfortunately, adding extra receivers influences the system efficiency. By impedance matching, the loads of the system can be adjusted to maximize the efficiency, regardless of the number of receivers. In this work, we present the analytical solution for achieving maximum system efficiency with any number of receivers for capacitive WPT. Among others, we determine the optimal loads and the maximum system efficiency. We express the efficiency as a function of a single variable, the system kQ-product and demonstrate that load capacitors can be inserted to compensate for any cross-coupling between the receivers.

This paper presents closed loop simulation of a CMOS-MEMS force sensor for biomedicalapplications employing an optimal proportional-integral-derivative controller. Since thedynamic behavior of the sensor under investigation is nonlinear the iterative feedbacktuning approach was proposed for optimal gains tuning of the proposed controller.Simulation results presented in this research illustrate that the proposed controllersuppresses the undesired in-plane vibration induced by environment or gripper 40 timesfaster than the nonlinear controller proposed in the literature. To suppress the maximuminput disturbance the maximum voltage was approximately 18 V which was less than thepull-in voltage of 30 V. The proposed controller is served to actuate two stator fingersadjacent to a rotor finger in order to provide both the attractive and repellent forcesduring manipulation. Employing the proposed mechanism not only resolves the drawbackscorresponding to the nonlinear controller presented in the literature but also improvesits performance of the closed loop system by using the complete nonlinear dynamics of theforce sensor. Also, applying complete non-linear dynamic of model improves the performanceof controller and is one of superior features of proposed PID controller in comparisonwith the classical controller presented in literature.

An intense and focused heavy ion beam is a suitable tool to generate high energy density in matter. To compare results with simulations it is essential to know beam parameters as intensity, longitudinal, and transversal profile at the focal plane. Since the beam's energy deposition will melt and evaporate even tungsten, non-intercepting diagnostics are required. Therefore a capacitive pickup with high resolution in both time and space was designed, built and tested at the high temperature experimental area at GSI. Additionally a beam induced fluorescence monitor was investigated for the synchrotron's (SIS-18) energy-regime (60–750 AMeV) and successfully tested in a beam-transfer-line.