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Dynamics analysis for DC transformers integration in hybrid AC‐DC power distribution networks

Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Renan Pillon Barcelos, Jules Christian Georges Macé, Max Dupont

In AC/DC power distributions networks, power converters are interfacing buses to ensure DC voltage regulation and power distribution. Active front ends are used between AC and DC buses and two typical control schemes that can be implemented are voltage reg ...

2023

MEWron: An open-source melt electrowriting platform

Jürgen Brugger, Christophe Moser, Taavet Kangur, Sönke Menke

Melt electrowriting (MEW) is a distinct class of additive manufacturing technologies that generates fibrous and porous macrostructures with microscale resolution from an electrically charged molten polymer. The high -resolution scaffolds produced by MEW ha ...

2023

Analysis and Design for Medium Voltage Dual Active Bridge Converter Based on Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs

Chengmin Li

In this article, a series-connected SiC MOSFETs-based medium voltage (MV) dual active bridge (DAB) converter featuring a lowvoltage difference amongdevices and high efficiency is proposed. In the developed DAB converter, the zero voltage switching-on chara ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Hard-Switching Losses in Power FETs: The Role of Output Capacitance

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili

For certain field-effect transistors (FETs) in soft-switching operation, the large-signal behavior of their output capacitance ( Co ) has shown to deviate considerably from the datasheet values. This can have a significant effect on hard-switching losses i ...

2021

Ultra-compact, high-frequency power integrated circuits based on GaN-on-Si Schottky Barrier Diodes

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Luca Nela, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Georgios Kampitsis

GaN transistors are being employed in an increasing number of applications thanks to their excellent performance and competitive price. Yet, GaN diodes are not commercially available and little is known about their performance and potential impact on power ...

2020

Comprehensive Spectral Analysis of PWM Waveforms With Compensated DC link Oscillations

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic

In the available literature, including reference books on the topic, the spectral analysis of voltage waveforms obtained through the use of pulse-width modulation relies on the assumption of an ideally flat voltage across the DC link of a considered switch ...

2020

Low-Power Design of Digital VLSI Circuits around the Point of First Failure

Andrea Bonetti

As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, the implementation of energy-autonomous devices that can wirelessly communicate data from sensors is crucial. Even though techniques such as voltage scaling ...

EPFL2019

Design of an Always-On Deep Neural Network-Based 1-mu W Voice Activity Detector Aided With a Customized Software Model for Analog Feature Extraction

Minhao Yang

This paper presents an ultra-low-power voice activity detector (VAD). It uses analog signal processing for acoustic feature extraction (AFE) directly on the microphone output, approximate event-driven analog-to-digital conversion (ED-ADC), and digital deep ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Advanced Diamond Microfabrication for Microoptics and Photonics

Marcell Kristof Kiss

Diamond is an exceptional material - hard, stiff, transparent, which makes it ideal for the fabrication of optical and mechanical systems that take advantage of these properties. Diamond is not only "better", but it offers the possibility of integrating br ...

EPFL2019

Circuit Design, Architecture and CAD for RRAM-based FPGAs

Xifan Tang

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been indispensable components of embedded systems and datacenter infrastructures. However, energy efficiency of FPGAs has become a hard barrier preventing their expansion to more application contexts, due to two ...

EPFL2017

A composable method for real-time control of active distribution networks with explicit power set points. Part I: Framework

Mario Paolone, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Andrey Bernstein

The conventional approach for the control of distribution networks, in the presence of active generationand/or controllable loads and storage, involves a combination of both frequency and voltage regulation atdifferent time scales. With the increased penet ...

Elsevier2015

Wireless Data and Power Transmission Aiming Intracranial Epilepsy Monitoring

Catherine Dehollain, Gürkan Yilmaz, Oguz Atasoy

This study presents a wireless power and data transmission system to overcome the problems in intracranial epilepsy monitoring associated with transcutaneous wires. Firstly, a wireless power transfer link based on inductive coupling is implemented and a po ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

CCNoC: Specializing On-Chip Interconnects for Energy Efficiency in Cache-Coherent Servers

Giovanni De Micheli, Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Ciprian Seiculescu, Stavros Volos, Naser Khosro Pour

Manycore chips are emerging as the architecture of choice to provide power efficiency and improve performance, while riding Moore’s Law. In these architectures, on-chip interconnects play a pivotal role in ensuring power and performance scalability. As sup ...

2012

Modular DC/DC Converter: Comparison of Modulation Methods

Drazen Dujic, Alfred Rufer, Stephan Kenzelmann

This paper presents a bidirectional modular DC/DC converter. It consists of two Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC) linked by a transformer to achieve galvanic isolation. This topology serves as “DC transformer” interfacing low and medium voltage DC grids. ...

2012

Design, realization and measurements of a miniature antenna for implantable wireless communication systems

Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli, Eric Meurville, Léandre Bolomey, Giancarlo Corradini

The design procedure, realization and measurements of an implantable radiator for telemetry applications are presented. First, free space analysis allows the choice of the antenna typology with reduced computation time. Subsequently the antenna, inserted i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Design Considerations for the Fast Charge of Supercapacitors in the Frame of Low Voltage Applications

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade, Simon Delalay

Even if supercapacitors present a reduced energy density, they enable to store a significant amount of energy, which leads to a significant autonomy for applications with reduced energy needs. The main advantage of supercapacitors is there to compensate a ...

2011

Nanostructured surface fabricated by laser interference lithography to attenuate the reflectivity of microlens arrays

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Pierre-Yves Baroni

A subwavelength-scale square lattice optical nanostructure is fabricated using an interference photolithography process on the surface of a quartz microlens array. This nanostructuring of the quartz surface introduces an antireflective effect, reducing ref ...

2010

A 9 pW/Hz Adjustable Clock Generator with 3-Decade Tuning Range for Dynamic Power Management in Subthreshold SCL Systems

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli

A widely-tunable and power-scalable clock generator for ultra-low power (ULP) applications is presented. Benefitting from a novel self-adjustable loop frequency response, the proposed phase-locked loop based clock generator exhibits a tuning range of three ...

2010

A Low-Noise CMOS Receiver Frontend for NMR-based Surgical Guidance

Giovanni Boero, Jens Anders

In this paper a novel architecture for an integrated NMR receiver front-end for surgical guidance applications is described. While the chip consumes only 9 mA supply current from a 3.3 V power supply it has a measured input referred noise density of 0.7 nV ...

Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, Ny 10013, United States2009

Qualification tests for ITER TF conductors in SULTAN

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Boris Stepanov

From February 2007 to May 2008, 18 short length conductor sections have been tested in SULTAN for design verification and manufacturer qualification of the ITER Toroidal Field (TF) conductor. The test program is focussed on the current sharing temperature, ...

Elsevier2009