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Published Papers & Presentations

"Ensuring Reliability for Marine Renewable Drive Train
Systems – Nautilus Testing Facilities"

Name - Dr. Jamie Grimwade
Published - 3rd International Conferenceon Ocean Energy, 6 October, Bilbao 
Type - Conference Paper
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"LGBC Silicon Solar Cell with modified bus bar suitable for high volume wire bonding"

Name - Keith C Heasman1, Laura M Brown1, Alex Cole1, Stephen Devenport1, Paul Gibbard2 and Tim M Bruton1
1 Narec, PV Technology Centre, Albert Street, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 1LZ, UK
2 Welwyn Components Ltd, Welwyn Electronics Park, Bedlington, Northumberland, NE22 7AA
*Corresponding Author: keith.heasman@narec.co.uk
Published - 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (25th EU PVSEC) / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy - 2010
Type - Conference Paper
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"Process and device modelling for enhancement of silicon solar cell efficiency"

Name - Chihak Ahn, Laura Brown●, Alex Cole●, Keith C. Heasman●, Kristine Drew●, and Nick E.B. Cowern*
School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Merz Court, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK,
● PV Technology Centre, New and Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), Blyth, NE24 1LZ, UK
* Corresponding Author
Published - 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (25th EU PVSEC) / 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy - 2010
Type - Conference Paper
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"The Reduction and the Acceleration of Development through the Step Wise Evaluation of Scaled Prototypes"

Name - Jamie Grimwade & Mehmet Atlar - (Technology Specialist – Marine)
Published - International Conference Ocean Energy, Bremerhaven, Germany 23-24 October 2006
Type - Conference Poster
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“Snapper”.  An efficient and compactdirect electric power take-off device for wave energy converters.

Name - Jamie Grimwade & Ed Spooner
Published - World Maritime Technology Conf – IMarEST 4th MAREC Conf
8-9 March 2006
Type - Peer reviewed papers
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Availability and Estimation of Marine Renewable Energy Resources

Name - Jamie Grimwade
Published - World Maritime Technology Conf – IMarEST 4th MAREC Conf
8-9 March 2006
Type - Peer reviewed papers
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Marine Renewables: A Development Route Map for the UK

Name - Jamie Grimwade & C French
Published - World Renewable Energy Congress VIII
29/8-3/9 2004
Type - Peer reviewed papers
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Empirical mode decomposition, an adaptive approach for interpreting shaft vibratory signals of large rotating machinery.

Name - Wenxian Yang & P J Tavener (Condition Monitoring Technologist)
Published - Science Direct -  Journal of Sound and Vibration Volume 321 issues 3-5
Type - Journal papers
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Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of a wind turbine synchronous generator drive train

Name - Wenxian Yang , M R Wilkinson& P J Tavener
Published - IET Renewable Power Generation
Type - Journal papers
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Cost-effective, global condition monitoring for wind turbines, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics

Name - W. X.Yang, P.J. Tavner, C.J. Crabtree, M.R. Wilkinson
Type - Journal papers
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An intelligent approach to the condition monitoring of large scale wind turbines

Name - Wenxian Yang, P. J. Tavner, C. J. Crabtree
Published - EWEC2009, 16-19 March, Marsille, France
Type - Conference paper
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Improving  Productivity and Reducing Costs with Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007

Name - Anna Ferguson - (Electrical Engineer)
Published - British Computer Society
Type - Conference paper
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Low-loss, single-mode GaAs/AlGaAs waveguides with large core thickness

Name - Ferguson, A.D.; Kuver, A.; Heaton, J.M.; Zhou, Y.; Snowden, C.M.; Iezekiel, S
Published - IEE Proceedings Optoelectronics
Type - Peer reviewed paper
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Design of Deep-Etched, A1GaAs  Optical Waveguides with Reduced Fabrication Tolerance Sensitivity

Name - Ferguson, A.; Clements, S.; Iezekiel, S.; Pollard, R.; Snowden, C
Published - High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium, 2002.7th IEEE
Type - Conference paper
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A composite H ii region luminosity function in Hα of unprecedented statistical weight

Name - Bradley, T. R.,Knapen, J. H.,Beckman, J. E.,Folkes, S. L.- (Project Engineer – Distributed Energy)
Published - High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium, 2002.7th IEEE
Type - Peer reviewed papers
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Structure and star formation in disk galaxies. II. Optical imaging

Name - Knapen, J. H., Stedman, S., Bramich, D. M., Folkes, S. L., Bradley, T. R.
Published - High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium, 2002.7th IEEE
Type - Peer reviewed papers
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A composite HII region luminosity function (Bradley+, 2006)

Name - Bradley, T. R., Knapen, J. H., Beckman, J. E., Folkes, S. L.
Type - galaxy catalogues
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Optical Imaging of 57 spiral galaxies (Knapen+ 2004)

Name - Bradley, T. R., Knapen, J. H., Beckman, J. E., Folkes, S. L.
Type - galaxy catalogues
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Lightning Arresters and Substation Protection

Name - Chris Ebden - (Systems Engineer)
Published - UK Magnetics Society
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Study on laser parameters for silicon solar cells with LCP selective emitters

Name - Hopman, S., Fell, A., Mayer, K., Fleischmann, C., Drew, K., Kray, D.,  Granek, F.
Published - Proceedings of the 24th European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition.
Type - Conference paper
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Combining Laser Chemical Processing and Aerosol Jet Printing: an industrially relevant high efficiency front side for silicon solar cells

Name - Drew, K.
Published - Masters’s thesis, Université Catholique de Louvain
Type - Master’s thesis
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Unbalanced Fault Ride-through Control for a Wind Turbine Inverter

Name - Ng, C.H., Li Ran, Bumby, J.
Published - IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, vol. 44, no 3, May-June 2008, pp. 845 - 856.
Type - Journal papers
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A Multilevel Modular Converter for a Large, Light Weight Wind Turbine Generator

Name - Ng, C.H., Parker, M.A., Li Ran, Tavner, P.J., Bumby, J.R., Spooner, E.
Published - IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, vol. 23, vo. 3, May 2008, pp. 1062 – 1074.
Type - Journal papers
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Fast Individual Harmonic Extraction Technique

Name - Ng, C.H., Busawon, K., Putrus, G.A., and Ran, L.
Published - IEE Proc. Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 152, no. 4, July 2005, pp. 556 – 562.
Type - Journal papers
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Experimental tests of an air-cored PM tubular generator for direct drive wave energy converters

Name - Mueller, M.A., Baker, N.J., Ran, L., Chong, N.G., Hong Wei, Tavner, P.J., McKeever, P.
Published - 4th IET Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2008, pp. 747 – 751, April 2008, York, UK
Type - Conference papers
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Analysis of the dc-link capacitance requirement in high level MCVSI

Name - Ng, C.H., Parker, M.A., Ran, L., Bumby, J.R.
Published - 41st International Universities Power Engineering Conference, 2006, vol. 1, pp. 103 – 107, Sept. 2006, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Type - Conference papers
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Power control of direct drive wind turbine with simplified conversion stage & transformerless grid interface

Name - Parker, M.A., Ng, C.H., Ran, L., Spooner, E.
Published - 41st International Universities Power Engineering Conference, 2006, vol. 1, pp. 65 – 68, Sept. 2006, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Type - Conference papers
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