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Maglev and Other Research Interests of Marc T. Thompson, Ph.D.

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Dr. Thompson has academic and professional research interests in:

  • Magnetic suspensions, Maglev, superconducting magnetics
  • Piezoelectric transformers for low-profile power electronics
  • High speed laser diode modulation techniques
  • Electrochemistry of the water/electrode interface
  • Properties of ferrofluids
  • Induction heating and planar magnetics
  • Advanced high speed electronic packaging concepts
  • Flywheel energy storage

Maglev Research

Excerpts of Dr. Thompson's Ph.D. thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "High Temperature Superconducting Magnetic Suspension for Maglev." are given in the links below.

More detail on construction and modeling of the Maglev test fixture is given in the paper here.  

A full listing of Dr. Thompson's Maglev-related publications is given here.

Dr. Thompson’s Ph.D. thesis on Maglev, available here from MIT Open Courseware

 

Ph.D. Thesis

Ph.D. Thesis Abstract

Thesis Table of Contents

Chapter 1         --- INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2         --- LITERATURE REVIEW

Chapters 3 - 8  --- SOME EXCERPTS FROM THIS EDS MAGLEV PH.D. THESIS

Chapter 9         --- REFERENCES

Copies of this Ph.D. thesis can be purchased from UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1-800-521-0600.

M.S.E.E. Thesis

"High Power Laser Diode Driver with Plural Feedback Loops"
Master's Thesis,  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1992

 

Dr. Thompson’s Master’s thesis on high speed laser diode drivers available here from MIT

 

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