Modified-Electroconvulsive Therapy (m-ECT) is administered for the treatment of various psychiatric disorders. The Seizure Generalization Hypothesis holds that propagation of the induced seizure throughout the whole brain is essential for the effective ECT intervention. However, we encounter many clinical cases where, due to high thresholds, seizure is not induced by the maximum dose of electri...

a fully integrated, ultra low-power, varying pulse width fifth-order derivative Gaussian pulse generator designed and fabricated in a commercial 0.18μm CMOS technology is reported for 3-10GHz impulse ultra wideband (UWB) transceivers. The fifth-order derivative Gaussian pulse generator circuit consists of four parallel Gaussian pulse formation blocks and an output stage. It can generate UWB pul...

pulsed current plasma arc welding (pcpaw) is one of the most widely used welding processes in sheet metal manufacturing industry. in any fusion arc welding process, the weld bead geometry plays an important role in determining the mechanical properties of the weld and hence quality of the weld.  moreover, the geometry of weld bead involves several simultaneously multiple quality characteristics...

Treatment and diagnosis can be made in difficult areas simply by changing the output pulse form of the magnetic stimulation device. However, there is a limitation in the range of treatments and diagnoses of a conventional sinusoidal stimulation treatment pulse because the intensity, width, and form of the pulse must be changed according to the lesion type. This paper reports a multidischarge me...

A general method to design continuous-time Sigma{ Delta ((() modulators with delayed return-to-zero (RZ) feedback pulse is presented. This method can be applied to design modulators with any arbitrary delay and pulse width. It is shown that the key-point to avoid the degrading eeects of clock jitters, is to generate a low jitter feedback pulse-width, using a monostable multivibrator.

Tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films were studied with and without applying fixed pulse bias and frequency at variable pulse widths in double bent Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc(FCVA) system. Both from Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS) analyses it has been observed that the ratio of sp/sp is maximal at pulse width of 15 μs with fixed pulse bias 3kV and frequency 200 kHz. Increa...

The paper considers the so-called dynamic phasor model as a basis for harmonic analysis of a class of switching systems. The dynamic phasor model is a powerful tool for exploring cyclic properties of dynamic systems. It is shown that there is a connection between the dynamic phasor model and the harmonic transfer function of a linear time periodic system and this connection is used to extend th...

A new circuit is presented for three-phase voltage controller (AC chopper) constructed from IGBTs. Traditionally such an equipment contains thyristors as switching elements. All drawbacks of this solution come from its only possible control method: firing control. The new circuit allows Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control, providing much better properties. A new and advantageous control method...

We describe and demonstrate a system which can be used with many types of actively modelocked lasers to create a source of variable width picosecond pulses. This system is an active compression scheme which incorporates a resonant electro-optic quadratic phase modulator to impart the linear frequency chirp on an optical pulse. To demonstrate, we used the modulator to chirp the 85 ps pulses from...

This paper describes a silicon implementation of an Arti cial Neural Networks based on Coherent Pulse Width modulation techniques. Synapses use current generators controlled by an input Pulse Stream. Net charge generated is the product of synaptic current by pulse width. Neurons accumulate synaptic contributions and convert internal activation into an output Pulse Stream. A system optimized for...