In recent years, utilization of the renewable based power plants has become widespread in the power systems. One of the most widely used renewable based power plants is wind power plants. Due to the utilization of wind energy to generate electricity, wind turbines have not emitted any environmental pollution. Thus, in addition to economic benefits, utilization of these power plants is of great ...

‏‎applications such as high definition viedeo reproduction, portable computers, wireless, and multimedia demand, and ever-increasing need for ligh-frequency high-resolution and low-power analog-to-digital converters. flash, two-step flash, and pipeline convertors are fast but consume large amount of power and require large area. to overcome these problems, successive approximation converter blo...

many mobile and off-grid devices include electronics and other electrical consumers like servo drives, which need a quite low supply power. since the price for photovoltaic modules drops continuously, photovoltaic power supply is interesting in more and more applications. in solar powered systems, a battery is needed to store energy for the night and cloudy periods. the power electronics of suc...