Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to study the behavior of n-decane under sub-10 nm confinement between two gold {111} surfaces. This confinement and dielectric medium are characteristic of those used in nanoscale electromachining (nano-EM) processes; thus, it is important that the behavior of the nanoconfined dielectric medium be investigated for better process understanding. Results obtained via MD simulations indicate that, when confined down to a thickness less than 1 nm, the mechanical boundary conditions trigger organization in the n-decane medium, resulting in two distinct molecular layers. The n-decane chains lie flat on the {111} gold surfaces and show preferred orientation in the close-packed 110 crystallographic directions. A 4-fold increase in the maximum local density as compared with the experimental bulk (liquid) density is observed at the interface between the molecular medium and the gold {111} surfaces, regardless of confinement spacing. Radial distribution function curves are used to quantitatively examine organization of the medium into molecular layers. The deliberate introduction of ledges (atomic steps) on the gold surface triggers a preferred alignment of the n-decane chains toward the boundaries of the ledges.
One of the serious issues that a Power System faces is the Power Quality (PQ) disturbance which occur mainly because of the non-linear loads. Among these PQ disturbances, harmonics play a vital role which should to be mitigated along with reactive power compensation. In this paper, a modified sevenlevel boost Active-Neutral-Point-Clamped (7LB-ANPC) inverter is utilized as a Shunt Active Power Filter (SAPF). Another vital aspect of this work is to retain the link voltage across the capacitor, which is accomplished through a PI controller tuned with an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). An adaptive instantaneous p-q theory is instigated in the direction of extracting reference current and the harmonic extraction is carried out by using Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN). Gating sequence of inverter is generated for the outputs, which are attained from ANFIS and RBFNN and thus the opposite harmonics are injected to the Point of Common Coupling (PCC) by which current harmonics are eliminated with reactive power compensation. The 7Lb-ANPC inverter has a minimized number of switching devices with low switching losses and high boosting ability. By RBFNN based reference current generation, the source current THD of 0.89% is achieved. The proposed methodology is simulated through MATLAB and in hardware by utilizing FPGA Spartan 6E.
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