Second Harmonic Class-E PA Design The selected active device for the transmission-line class-E2 PA is the SD57030 transistor provided by STMicroelectronics. It has a maximum drain voltage of 65 V. In an ideal class-E PA in the optimum operating mode with 50% duty cycle and a slope of zero [5], the peak drain voltage is vDmax =3.56 VDD. Since the peak varies with load impedance, a design for vDm...

Full characterization of fullerenol C60(OH)24 by HPLC ESI-MS in negative and positive ionization modes was achieved. Fragmentor voltage and capillary voltage were optimized in order to obtain a good signal stability and the best peak intensity distribution for the fullerenol C60(OH)24 in both negative and positive modes. While the predominant base peak observed for C60(OH)24 in the negative ion...

Determining the voltage linearity of a large impulse voltage divider used in the testing of ultra-high-voltage (UHV) equipment is a challenging task. This leads to the question of whether the uncertainty requirements, specified in the present edition of IEC60060 [1, 2], can be met in the UHV range. This paper presents the results of voltage divider linearity tests at voltages up to 2400 kV. Mea...

Action potentials of embryonic nerve and muscle cells often have a different ionic dependence and longer duration than those of mature cells. The action potential of spinal cord neurons from Xenopus laevis exhibits a prominent calcium component at early stages of development that diminishes with age as the impulse becomes principally sodium dependent. Whole-cell voltage-clamp analysis has been ...

We present a multiple-voltage high-level synthesis methodology that minimizes power dissipation of VLSI signal processing. By applying algorithmic transformations, the proposed approach optimizes the power saving, in terms of the average power and peak power, for DSP applications when the resources and the latency are constrained. Our approach is motivated by the maximization of task mobilities...

Temperature is an important physiological variable the influence of which on macroscopic electrophysiological measurements in slices is not well documented. We show that each of three voltage-sensitive conductances of octopus cells of the mammalian ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN) is affected differently by changes in temperature. As expected, the kinetics of the currents were faster at higher th...

Two systems for the measurement and standardization of peak pulse voltage have recently been developed in the Radio Standards Engineering Division of the National Bureau of Standards. Des igned for use with pulses having durations as short as 10 nanoseconds, the s ystems represent the initi al e ffort by NBS for establishment of standards in this fi eld and it is expected that they will serve a...

Due to their high stiffness, small dimensions, and low mass, piezoelectric stack actuators are capable of developing large displacements over bandwidths of greater than 100 kHz. However, due to their large electrical capacitance, the associated driving amplifier is usually limited in bandwidth to a few kilohertz or less. In this paper the limiting characteristics of piezoelectric drives are ide...

In conjugated polymer devices that switch from one oxidation level to another, such as artificial muscles, it is important to understand memory effects that stem from conformational relaxation movements of the polymer chains. Chronoamperometry during electrochemical switching of polypyrrole doped with dodecylbenzenesulfonate, PPy(DBS), is used to gain insight into the conformational relaxation ...