Heavy-duty opening switches are the most critical components in high-voltage pulsed power systems with inductive energy storage. For industrial applications such as pulsed corona processing, long lifetime, high repetition rate, high reliability and high efficiency are required. At the Ioffe Institute, an unconventional high-voltage switching mechanism has been found, based on the fast recovery ...

High voltage interfaces are broadly used in many IC applications like motor control, power management and conversion, LCD panel drivers and automotive systems. Because the high voltage IC’s are typically used in severe applications IC designers need to protect their circuits to a steady growing list of requirements. In this paper we present an overview of the ESD, EOS and latch-up requirements ...

This review article is mainly oriented to the control and applications of modular multilevel converters (MMC). The main topologies of the switching modules are presented, for normal operation and for the elimination of DC faults. Methods to keep the capacitor voltage balanced are included. The voltage and current modulators, that are the most internal loops of control, are detailed. Voltage con...

This paper presents a high reliability low dropout linear regulator with voltage tolerance, which uses an open loop structure and is applied to the feedforward response portion of power tube gate enhance transient LDO. The proposed LDO simulated using 0.18um DTI isolated BCD process 3.3V-14V supply voltage, maximum input 40V adjustable output 3.1V/5V. line regulation 0.086% at rejection ratio c...