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Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

A historical and theoretical account of the city of Berlin from the intertwined perspectives of architecture, environmental, and media studies. In 1945, having occupied German territory, Soviet troops made two strategic moves: they dismantled the Deutschla ...

MIT Press2024

Direct observations of X-rays produced by upward positive lightning

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Thomas Chaumont

X-rays have been observed in natural downward cloud-to-ground lightning for over 20 years and in rocket-triggered lightning for slightly less. In both cases, this energetic radiation has been detected during the stepped and dart leader phases of downward n ...

2024

Infrastructures of Solidarity, Infrastructures of Totalitarism

Alfredo Thiermann

Between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990, the silenced voices of many were dissolved into electromagnetic waves so they could be transmitted and heard in Chile. For sixteen years, the broadcasting house of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) – the Funk ...

2023

Modeling lightning strikes to tall towers

Marcos Rubinstein

In this chapter, we present a review of recent progress in the modeling of lightning strikes to tall structures. Since some tall structures are struck by lightning several tens of times per year, they can be used as ground-truth to measure and calibrate th ...

IET2023

Improving Railway Track Coverage with mmWave Bridges: A Measurement Campaign

Andreas Peter Burg, Adrian Schumacher, Ruben Merz

Bringing cellular capacity into modern trains is challenging because they act as Faraday cages. Building a radio frequency (RF) corridor along the railway tracks ensures a high signal-to-noise ratio and limits handovers. However, building such RF corridors ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Adding Indoor Capacity without Fiber Backhaul: An mmWave Bridge Prototype

Andreas Peter Burg, Adrian Schumacher, Ruben Merz

Today, a large portion of mobile data traffic is consumed behind the shielding walls of buildings or in the Faraday cage of trains. This renders cellular network coverage from outdoor cell sites difficult. Indoor small cells and distributed antennas along ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Options to correct local turbulent flux measurements for large-scale fluxes using an approach based on large-eddy simulation

Peter Andreas Brugger

The eddy-covariance method provides the most direct estimates for fluxes between ecosystems and the atmosphere. However, dispersive fluxes can occur in the presence of secondary circulations, which can inherently not be captured by such single-tower measur ...

2021

In-body Antennas Design Based on Fundamental Limits of Obtainable Power Density

Anja Skrivervik, Zvonimir Sipus

In-body medical implants are one of the most promising solutions for increasing patient healthcare in the future. Many such devices already exist, however, each new design is a challenge due to size constraints and communication issues which arise due to s ...

IEEE2021

Impedance and Admittance Formulas for a Multistair Model of Transmission Towers

This article discusses formulas for the surge/ characteristic impedance of vertical conductors. Calculated results of the surge impedance are compared with measured results on vertical conductors and transmission towers. The accuracy of the available time- ...

2020

Calculation of the Grounding Resistance of Structures Located on Elevated Terrain

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

We present an analysis of the response of a grounding electrode located on the top of a mountain. Specifically, we derive an analytical solution for the low-frequency response of a hemispheric grounding electrode buried on the top of a cone-shaped mountain ...

2019

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