In this paper, an improved design of a high-Q factor CMOS active inductor operating in the mid MHz frequency range is introduced. Analysis of equations has been used to gain insight into behavior of the active inductor. Moreover, based on these equations and their analysis, ways of improving quality factor are discussed. Performance improvement based on this new design coupled with use of feedb...

We show that, with appropriate doping, the ethersulfone-based electrolytes that we earlier reported to have 5.6 V electrochemical windows but poor cycling performance in Li-ion cells, can succeed. We show they can be used to make cells that, at C/20 charge/discharge rates, have cycling performance equal to those with the standard LiPF6-carbonate electrolytes. A difference in performance that de...

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Piezoelectric actuators have been used successfully to enable locomotion in aerial and ambulatory microrobotic platforms. However, the use of piezoelectric actuators presents two major challenges for power electronic design: generating high-voltage drive signals in systems typically powered by low-voltage energy sources, and recovering unused energy from the actuators. Due to these challenges, ...

A current amplifier is used to realize a voltage amplifier having an improved high frequency response and slew rate capability. It is shown that the closed loop bandwidth is independent of the closed loop voltage gain. The design and application of a unity gain and a high gain current amplifier to voltage signal processing circuits are given. The results demonstrate an efficient use of the inhe...

This paper describes the development of high voltage power supply for electro-optics applications. The power supply consists of MOSFET driver, voltage multiplier circuit and voltage controller. A single timer 555 generates 1.3 kHz square pulse to drive the power MOSFET that connected to a standard step up transformer. By using voltage multiplier technique, the output from secondary transformer ...

In this paper a voltage mode four quadrant analog multiplier (FQAM) using voltage differencing buffered amplifier (VDBA) based on quarter square algebraic identity is presented. In the proposed FQAM the passive resistor can be implemented using MOSFETs operating in saturationregion thereby making it suitable for integration. The effect of non idealities of VDBA has also been analyzed in this pa...

In this paper, a high performance current-mode instrumentation amplifier has been proposed for low noise, low power, high CMRR and adjustable gain with an external resistor for various biomedical signal processing. The portable biomedical instrumentation has become an important part of diagnostic and treatment instrumentation, including telemedicine applications. The low voltage and low-power d...

The commutation process causes current ripple to be generated in the drive system of brushless DC (BLDC) motor. This, in turn, leads to output torque ripple. Mechanical vibration and acoustic noise are its influences which are undesirable phenomenon in some applications. A new method is presented in this paper which reduces torque ripple and commutation period in the entire range of motor speed...

Solid-state power controllers (SSPCs) have been received increasing attention as they can configure the electrical system and protect by fast tripping mechanism at same time. Although high-voltage direct current (HVDC) bring sustainable savings on cables' weight losses, protection be considerably challenging. SSPCs successfully utilized for 28V DC aircraft onboard network. However, ones are imp...