Please do not adjust margins Please do not adjust margins Organic bulk heterojunction solar cells based on ternary blends of two donor absorbers and one acceptor are investigated by experiments and modeling. The commonly observed continuous tunability of the open circuit voltage í µí±½ í µí± ¶í µí±ª with donor1:donor2 ratio can quantitatively be explained as quasi-Fermi level splitting due to p...

In this paper, a boost converter with a clamp circuit is proposed for high intensity discharge (HID) lamp application. The clamp circuit provides zero voltage turn on for both main and clamp switches. Compared to conventional boost converters, the proposed converter has the following advantages: (i) high voltage gain without suffering from extreme duty ratio, (ii) low stress on the switches and...

this paper presents a new arc starter circuit that is usable in manual metal arc welding (mma) power supplies. the proposed circuit uses an auxiliary circuit and a series coupling transformer for adding high frequency spikes to output dc voltage during arc striking. the proposed circuit is usable in inverter based arc welding supplies and it could result in a decrease of weigh, volume and expen...

The maximum theoretical open circuit voltage of a solar cell is set by its builtin voltage. For amorphous silicon p-i-n cells, the position of the Fermi levels in the p-and ncontact regions are on the order of 0.4 eV and 0.2eV from their respective band edges, limiting the built-in voltage to Eg 0.6eV. We propose replacing the pand n regions by superlattices, in which the Fermi levels in the wi...

In this paper, a voltage-current mode controller is proposed to adjust both the input current and DC voltage of a boost-inverter in order to improve the performance of the photovoltaic (PV). The proposed system is based on fuzzy-making-decision predictive voltage-current controller (FPVCC). The simulation results show that in case of using the proposed FPVCC, the input current of a PV array is ...

in this paper, intelligent water drop algorithm (iwd) is used to analyze single overhead line connected to grid-grounded arrester. in this approach, at first norton’s equivalent circuit of the overhead line over lossy soil is computed by method of moments (mom) and then for the problem under consideration, a nonlinear equivalent circuit in the frequency domain is proposed. finally applying inte...

Conventional thinking for cells under concentrated sunlight would suggest that short circuit current, and hence also open circuit voltage, can be determined exactly by the total illumination falling onto the cell. However with most concentrator systems the cells are exposed to highly focused light, with consequent non-uniform temperature and current distributions. Departures from the simple rel...

In this paper, a new voltage controlled first order all-pass filter is presented. The proposed circuit employs a single differential voltage dual-X second generation current conveyor (DV-DXCCII) and a grounded capacitor only. The proposed all-pass filter provides both inverting and non inverting voltage-mode outputs from the same configuration simultaneously without any matching condition. Non-...