Optimal reconfiguration and capacitor placement are used to reduce power losses and keep the voltage within its allowable interval in power distribution systems considering voltage, current, and radial condition constraints. It is needed to solve two nonlinear discrete optimization problems simultaneously, so an intelligent algorithm is used to reach an optimum solution for network power losses...

An ultra-low power area-efficient fully differential multi-bit quantizer used in Sigma-Delta modulator (SDM) is presented. The quantizer is named as capacitor-string area-efficient (CSAE) quantizer since instead of the typical resistor string, it employs a capacitor string to avoid static power consumption. Furthermore, a novel circuit configuration with saving half number of comparators is app...

Design of switched capacitor circuits in scaled CMOS technologies is becoming difficult because of low device intrinsic gain and reduced power supply voltage. To solve these problems, comparator-based switched-capacitor (CBSC) circuits and zero-crossing based circuits (ZCBC) were suggested as a possible solution to the op-amp based circuits. In this thesis, we explore zero-crossing based circui...

A new design approach is presented in this paper to show that under certain conditions, in a two-coil wireless power transfer system, the double-sided inductor-capacitor-capacitor (LCC) compensated wireless power transfer (LCC-WPT) system can be more energy efficient than the series-series (SS) compensated wireless power transfer (SS-WPT) system for the same load power, with special attention b...

This paper presents a methodology to design reconfigurable switched-capacitor (SC) delta-sigma modulators Ms) capable of keeping their corresponding power efficiency figures constant and optimal for a set of resolutions and signal bandwidths. This method is especially suitable for lowbandwidth, medium-to-high resolution specifications, which are common in bio-medical application range. The p...

This paper introduces a merged converter topology for supplying high-brightness light-emitting diodes for lighting applications. The converter combines a boost-based power factor correction rectifier (PFC) and a resonant converter in a single-stage. In this topology both converters share the same switching components and a bulky electrolytic capacitor, existing in conventional systems, is repla...

We propose a new converter control scheme for a converter–inverter system. The strategy is to fully utilize the inverter dynamics in controlling the converter dynamics. We obtain the power dynamics for both converter and inverter systems, and control the converter power so that it matches the required inverter power exactly. Then, in the ideal case, no power flows through the dc-link capacitors...

A piezoelectric/magnetostrictive composite vibrating energy generator is introduced, and its output characteristic is analyzed. In order to increase the maximum output power of the vibrating energy harvester, a new up-conversion matching circuit is proposed, which can change the low frequency vibrating signal into a narrow bandwidth signal focused on a higher frequency. The matching circuit wit...

The capacitor charging method can be used in Photovoltaic (PV) systems for two typical applications: a very simple and cheap way (1) to trace the I–V curve of a PV generator of whatever size and (2) to track the Maximum Power Point (MPP), especially when the partial shading occurs. The problem is the correct sizing of the capacitor in order to achieve accurate, uniform and smooth results. In th...

The multilevel cascaded converters are extensively applied for high-voltage and high-power applications, which are considered as the most favorable topologies for the high power ac-drives and the high-voltage DC transmission (HVDC) systems using the voltage source converters (VSCs). This paper presents the dc capacitor balancing and effective current regulation methodologies for the multilevel ...