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Equivalent series resistance

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First developments towards producing inductive magnetic sensors using state-of-the-art photolithography techniques

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Inductive magnetic sensors are needed for tokamak operation to provide the low-frequency (LF) measurements leading to the equilibrium reconstruction and to monitor the higher frequency (HF) instabilities; the HF magnetic sensors are often also used as a ba ...

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Switching losses in power devices: From dynamic on resistance to output capacitance hysteresis

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Hongkeng Zhu

In this paper, we review some of the main methods to characterize on-state and off-state losses in wide-band-gap devices under switching conditions. In the off-state, we will discuss about losses related to charging and discharging the output capacitance i ...

IEEE2023

Modeling Current Transients in a Reciprocal Motion Tribocorrosion Experiment

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Shoufan Cao

Tribocorrosion of passivating metals is a dynamic phenomenon causing degradation of materials by a combination of mechanical wear and electrochemical dissolution. The mechanical action typically produces a local removal of particles, metal as well as oxide ...

ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC2021

Mixed Simulation-Experimental Optimization of a Modular Multilevel Switched Capacitors Converter Cell

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Georgios Kampitsis

This work presents a mixed simulation experimental method for efficiency optimization of a modular multilevel switched capacitor DC-DC converter. The results show that the optimal frequency deviates from the circuit's self-resonant frequency, commonly prop ...

IEEE2020

Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Series Inductor Integration Into the MFT for SST Applications

Drazen Dujic, Marko Mogorovic

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the integration of the series inductor into the medium frequency transformer used for series resonant or dual active bridge converters - galvanically isolated DC-DC converters for high-power medium-voltage (solid st ...

2020

Output-Capacitance Hysteresis Losses of Field-Effect Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Luca Nela, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Georgios Kampitsis

Resonant-type power converters are supposed to generate zero switching losses during soft-switching operation. In recent research, unexpected switching losses were reported in these converters, which were attributed to a large-signal hysteresis observed in ...

IEEE2020

1200 V Multi-Channel Power Devices with 2.8 Ω•mm ON-Resistance

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Luca Nela, Catherine Erine, Minghua Zhu

Here we report novel multi-channel AlGaN/GaN MOSHEMTs with high breakdown voltage (V BR ) and low ON-resistance (R ON ). The multi-channel structure was judiciously designed to yield a small sheet resistance (R s ) of 80 Ω/sq using only four 2DEG channels, ...

IEEE2019

Critical Parasitic Elements of Coupled Inductors for Ultra-High Voltage Flyback Converters Used to Drive Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Morgan Almanza, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

This paper presents the critical parasitic elements of coupled inductors and their influence when designing a low input (12V) and ultra-high output voltage (>4000V) DC-DC Flyback Converter. The aim is to design a compact converter capable to supply the ult ...

IEEE2019

Advances in the characterization of nanowire photovoltaic devices

Dmitry Mikulik

III-V nanowires (NWs) have a great potential for solar energy applications due to their diameter-dependent optical properties, which may enhance absorption of light. In addition, core-shell radial p-i-n structures, in which the direction of light absorptio ...

EPFL2018

Wearable System with Integrated Passive Microfluidics for Real-Time Electrolyte Sensing in Human Sweat

Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero

Wearable systems embodied as patches could offer noninvasive and real-time solutions for monitoring of biomarkers in human sweat as an alternative to blood testing, with applications in personalized and preventive healthcare. Sweat is considered to be a bi ...

EPFL2018

A Reconfigurable Inductor Based on Vanadium Dioxide Insulator-to-Metal Transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller, Alessandro Fumarola

This letter introduces a reconfigurable planar square-coil-shaped inductor exploiting as the tuning mechanism the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) of a vanadium dioxide (VO2) switch placed in the interwinding space in an unprecedented manner. The VO2 th ...

2018

The Role of Rubidium in Multiple-Cation-Based High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Fabrizio Giordano, Neha Arora, Essa Awadh R Alharbi

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on cesium (Cs)- and rubidium (Rb)-containing perovskite films show highly reproducible performance; however, a fundamental understanding of these systems is still emerging. Herein, this study has systematically investiga ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Implementation Guidelines for a Real-Time Fault Location System in Electrical Power Networks

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, François Pierre Gaugaz

This paper presents constraints involved in the microelectronic implementation of a transmission line model based on transconductor-capacitor (gm-C) topologies. The presented line model, based on the discretization of a transmission line into a finite numb ...

Ieee2016

On Practical Implementation of Electromagnetic Models of Lightning Return-Strokes

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Hamidreza Karami

In electromagnetic models, the return-stroke channel is represented as an antenna excited at its base by either a voltage or a current source. To adjust the speed of the current pulse propagating in the channel to available optical observations, different ...

2016

Method and device for determining plasma characteristics

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne

The invention relates to a method and a device for determining plasma characteristics, the method comprising the steps of: - arranging a measurement probe (2) having a self-inductance in proximity to a plasma (3) to establish inductive coupling between the ...

2016

Macroscopic indicators of fault diagnosis and ageing in electrochemical double layer capacitors

Hubert Girault, Mario Paolone, Véronique Amstutz, Dimitri Torregrossa, Kathryn Ellen Toghill

The ageing behaviour of electric double layer (EDLC) supercapacitors during over-temperature and over-voltage stresses is described. Specific experimental tests were carried out in order to reproduce, under laboratory controlled conditions, the above-menti ...

2015

A Low Power On-Chip Class-E Power Amplifier For Remotely Powered Implantable Sensor Systems

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Kerim Türe

This paper presents a low power fully integrated class-E power amplifier and its integration with remotely powered sensor system. The class-E power amplifier is suitable solution for low-power applications due to its high power efficiency. However, the req ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Simulations of the irradiation and temperature dependence of the efficiency of tandem photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems

Sophia Haussener

The instantaneous efficiency of an operating photoelectrochemical solar-fuel-generator system is a complicated function of the tradeoffs between the light intensity and temperature-dependence of the photovoltage and photocurrent, as well as the losses asso ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Mobility Extraction Assessment in GAA Si NW JL FETs with Cross-Section Down to 5 nm

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Jean-Michel Sallese, Wladyslaw Grabinski, Mohammad Najmzadeh, Matthieu Berthomé

In this paper, we report for the first time, assessment on mobility extraction in equilateral triangular gate-all-around Si nanowire junctionless (JL) nMOSFETs with cross-section down to 5 nm. This analysis was performed in accumulation regime, as a first ...

IEEE2013

Generalization of the Concept of Equivalent Thickness and Capacitance to Multigate MOSFETs Modeling

Jean-Michel Sallese

In this letter, we propose to introduce the notion of equivalent capacitance and to generalize the so-called equivalent-thickness concept to model arbitrary shapes of lightly doped nonplanar multigate MOSFETs, without the need to introduce any unphysical p ...

2012