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Pushing the Limits of Efficiency and Power Density in High-Frequency Power Conversion Based on Wide-Band-Gap Technologies

The emergence of wide-band-gap (WBG) power transistors with low conduction losses and high-speed switching speeds has paved the way for more-than-ever efficient power electronics systems and huge energy saving potentials. Likewise, power density- the ratio ...

EPFL2021

Capacitive sensor to monitor the level of drug inside an injector pen

Sylvain Paul Fernand Joly

Diabete is a disease which is spreading faster than ever, impacting now a larger population. Patients suffering from this disease need the injection of insulin to control extracellular sugar levels. Pharmaceutical companies developed injector pens to allow ...

EPFL2021

Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

Thomas Christoph Müller

With the advent of intelligent sensor nodes in everyday life, low power aspects of system design become more and more important. Adaptive body biasing is a promising methodology to achieve dynamic adaptation of the tradeoff between performance and energy b ...

EPFL2021

Microchannel-based Calorimeter for Rapid and Accurate Loss Measurements on High-efficiency Power Converters

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

The difficulty in accurately measuring losses in high-frequency power converters hinders accurate breakdown of losses which is essential for device and circuit optimization. Electrical methods are often not adequate and calorimetric approaches found in the ...

IEEE2021

Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter Design and Control for Variable Speed Pumped Hydro Storage Plants

Drazen Dujic, Milan Utvic, Miodrag Basic

Hybrid modular multilevel converter control and design for pumped hydro storage plants is presented, addressing application-specific shortcoming of conventional back-to-back half-bridge modular multilevel converter: high common-mode-voltage machine stress. ...

2021

Performance assessment of grid-forming and grid-following converter-interfaced battery energy storage systems on frequency regulation in low-inertia power grids

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Fabrizio Sossan, Yihui Zuo, Antonio Zecchino, Zhao Yuan

Power systems with large shares of converter-interfaced renewables may be characterised by low grid inertia due to the lack of frequency containment provided by synchronous generators. Battery energy storage systems (BESSs), which can adjust their power ou ...

2021

Investigation on Output Capacitance Losses in Superjunction and GaN-on-Si Power Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Halil Kerim Yildirim

Low ON-resistance of advanced superjunction (SJ) and GaN-on-Si transistors is of great importance in power converters, however, the anomalous loss in their output capacitance (C OSS ) severely limits their performance. In this work, we use an energy-orient ...

IEEE2021

Condition Health Monitoring of Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule Capacitors

Drazen Dujic, Ignacio Alejandro Polanco Lobos

With a large deployment of power electronic converters in various critical applications, condition health monitoring is increasingly becoming important. In modular multilevel converter, submodule capacitance represents one of the critical components, havin ...

2022

Gate energy efficiency and negative capacitance in ferroelectric 2D/2D TFET from cryogenic to high temperatures

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri, Teodor Rosca, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei, Luca Capua

We report the fabrication process and performance characterization of a fully integrated ferroelectric gate stack in a WSe2/SnSe2 Tunnel FETs (TFETs). The energy behavior of the gate stack during charging and discharging, together with the energy loss of a ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Fully Soft-Switched High Step-Up Nonisolated Three-Port DC-DC Converter Using GaN HEMTs

Marco Mattavelli, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis

In this article, a soft-switched nonisolated high step-up multi-input dc-dc converter is proposed. The proposed converter has overcome the hard switching problem of the conventional boost three port converter (boost-TPC) by providing zero-voltage-switching ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Efficient High Step-up Operation in Boost Converters Based on Impulse Rectification

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

Conventional boost converters, while having a high level of simplicity and robustness, are known to have poor efficiency at high step-up regime. More complicated topologies have been extensively explored to increase the step-up ratio while keeping a high-e ...

2020

Enhanced-performance integrated Resonant Switched-Capacitor and Buck DC-DC converters for application in extreme radiation and magnetic field environments

Giacomo Ripamonti

DC-DC converters based on Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) have been developed in this doctoral work for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) experiments at CERN. They step down the voltage from a 2.5 V line and supply a load ...

EPFL2020