Skip to main content

and
  1. Article

    Open Access

    The Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer, MEDA. A Suite of Environmental Sensors for the Mars 2020 Mission

    NASA’s Mars 2020 (M2020) rover mission includes a suite of sensors to monitor current environmental conditions near the surface of Mars and to constrain bulk aerosol properties from changes in atmospheric radi...

    J. A. Rodriguez-Manfredi, M. de la Torre Juárez, A. Alonso in Space Science Reviews (2021)

  2. No Access

    Article

    Optical absorption of radio frequency sputtered GaAs(Ti) films

    Composition and optical absorption of thin films of GaAs(Ti) and GaAs, deposited by sputtering on glass substrates under different process conditions, have been investigated. The thin films obtained are typica...

    A. Boronat, S. Silvestre, D. Fuertes Marrón in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in… (2013)

  3. Article

    REMS: The Environmental Sensor Suite for the Mars Science Laboratory Rover

    The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) will investigate environmental factors directly tied to current habitability at the Martian surface during the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Three maj...

    J. Gómez-Elvira, C. Armiens, L. Castañer, M. Domínguez, M. Genzer in Space Science Reviews (2012)

  4. No Access

    Chapter and Conference Paper

    A Novel Low Cost Lead-frame Air Flow Anemometer

    A novel lead-frame air flow sensor is presented. It is a compact low cost solution which allows easy PCB mounting and adaptation to standard size small air pipes. Based on the hot-wire principle, it has been o...

    M. Domínguez, F. Masana, V. Jiménez, S. Bermejo in Transducers ’01 Eurosensors XV (2001)

  5. No Access

    Chapter and Conference Paper

    New Current Drive Method to Extend the Stable Operation Range of Electrostatic Actuators: Experimental Verification

    This paper presents a new current driving method for electrostatic actuators. The method is conceptually introduced and experimentally tested showing that the stable range of movement can be extended for posit...

    R. Nadal Guardia, A. Dehé, R. Aigner, L. Castañer in Transducers ’01 Eurosensors XV (2001)

  6. No Access

    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Pilot Instalation for Small Power Photovoltaic Systems

    Power conditioning in small photovoltaic systems is des cribed in the paper. A pilot installation has been built including a low cost dc-dc switching converter, a dc-ac static inverter, a sun tracking system f...

    L. Closas, A. Mas, L. Castañer, J. Simorra in Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (1981)

  7. No Access

    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Solar Cell Open Circuit Voltage Decay. Emitter, Base Lifetime and Gap Narrowing Measurements.

    A methodology for evaluation of band gap narrowing (BGN) in the heavily doped emitter region of solar cells, using independent measurements of the emitter and base lifetimes and relaxation time is presented. T...

    J. Cabestany, L. Castañer, E. Vilamajß, J. Llaberia in Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (1981)