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Chapter
Platform Economy: Converging IoT Platforms and Ecosystems
Platform companies like Airbnb, Amazon, or Google dominate our economy, and many more are on the rise to disrupt entire industries. In fact, eight of the ten most valuable companies worldwide follow a platform bu...
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Chapter
Bosch IoT Suite: Exploiting the Potential of Smart Connected Products
Recent technological advances make it possible to connect almost any product, machine or device to the Internet. Specifically for manufacturing companies, this transition towards the Internet of things (IoT) o...
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Sustainable AIoT: How Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things Affect Profit, People, and Planet
Megatrends such as population growth, resource scarcity, and climate change drive and shape today’s businesses and society. For this reason, to achieve long-term business success, business leaders must keep a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Imaging Standoff Detection of Explosives by Diffuse Reflectance IR Laser Spectroscopy
In this work we demonstrate standoff detection of traces of explosives using mid-infrared laser spectroscopy. We apply active laser illumination and use an infrared camera for collection of the diffusely backs...
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Article
Investigation of Leakage Current of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Under Pinch-Off Condition by Electroluminescence Microscopy
Results from on-wafer electroluminescence (EL) microscopy on AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors with leakage currents varying over four orders of magnitude are presented. In the off-state region the ...
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Article
Device and Design Optimization for AlGaN/GaN X-Band-Power-Amplifiers with High Efficiency
The design, realization and characterization of dual-stage X-band high-power and highly-efficient monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) power amplifiers (PAs) with AlGaN/GaN high electronic mobility t...
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GaInAs/AlAsSb Quantum Cascade Lasers: A New Approach towards 3-to-5 μm Semiconductor Lasers
At present GaInAs/AlInAs based quantum cascade (QC) lasers represent the state-of-the-art with respect to the short-wavelength (< 5 μm) performance of the QC laser concept. This performance, however, is intrin...