Philips

About: Philips is a company organization based out in Vantaa, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Layer (electronics). The organization has 68260 authors who have published 99663 publications receiving 1882329 citations. The organization is also known as: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. & Royal Philips Electronics.

From permanent magnets to rechargeable hydride electrodes

Abstract: A brief historical survey is given of how the study of coercitivity mechanisms in SmCo5 permanent-magnet materials eventually led to the discovery of the favourable hydrogen sorption properties of the compound LaNi5. It is shown how continued research by many investigators dealing with a variety of different physical and chemical properties has resulted in an advanced understanding of some of the principles that govern hydrogen absorption and which are responsible for the changes in physical properties that accompany it. The problems associated with various applications of LaNi5-based hydrogen-storage materials are also briefly discussed. A large part of this paper is devoted to the applicability of LaNi5-type materials in batteries. Research in this area has resulted in the development of a new type of rechargeable battery: the nickel-hydride cell. This battery can be charged and discharged at high rates and is relatively insensitive to overcharging and overdischarging. Special attention is given to the nature of the electrode degradation process and the effect of composition variations in LaNi5-related materials on the lifetime of the corresponding hydride electrodes when subjected to severe electrochemical charge-discharge cycles.

A family of low-power truly modular programmable dividers in standard 0.35-/spl mu/m CMOS technology

Abstract: A truly modular and power-scalable architecture for low-power programmable frequency dividers is presented. The architecture was used in the realization of a family of low-power fully programmable divider circuits, which consists of a 17-bit UHF divider, an 18-bit L-band divider, and a 12-bit reference divider. Key circuits of the architecture are 2/3 divider cells, which share the same logic and the same circuit implementation. The current consumption of each cell can be determined with a simple power optimization procedure. The implementation of the 2/3 divider cells is presented, the power optimization procedure is described, and the input amplifiers are briefly discussed. The circuits were processed in a standard 0.35 /spl mu/m bulk CMOS technology, and work with a nominal supply voltage of 2.2 V. The power efficiency of the UHF divider is 0.77 GHz/mW, and of the L-band divider, 0.57 GHz/mW. The measured input sensitivity is >10 mV rms for the UHF divider, and >20 mV rms for the L-band divider.

The algebraic basis of mathematical morphology. I. dilations and erosions

Abstract: Mathematical morphology is a theory of image transformations and functionals deriving its tools from set theory and integral geometry. This paper deals with a general algebraic approach which both reveals the mathematical structure of morphological operations and unifies several examples into one framework. The main assumption is that the object space is a complete lattice and that the transformations of interest are invariant under a given abelian group of automorphisms on that lattice. It turns out that the basic operations called dilation and erosion are adjoints of each other in a very specific lattice sense and can be completely characterized if the automorphism group is assumed to be transitive on a sup-generating subset of the complete lattice. The abstract theory is illustrated by a large variety of examples and applications.