Photovoltaic(PV) systems are expected to play an important role in future energy production. An asymmetrical interleaved high step-up converter is used to get high step up gain to step up the input energy which is obtained from PV panel without operating at an extreme duty ratio. The traditional inverter which is used to convert the converter output energy from DC to AC, contains a line frequen...

As operation frequencies and performance requirements of wireless devices increase, the resultant demands on the performance of passive components also increase. Miniaturization of inductive components for high frequency has been a key research area to address this issue; however, in general, miniaturized integrated inductors can suffer from low Q factors and/or self-resonant frequencies when c...

Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) measurement errors may be caused by parasitic stray capacitance, impedance mismatch, cross-talking or their very likely combination. An accurate detection and identification is of extreme importance for further analysis because in some cases and for some applications, certain measurement artifacts can be corrected, minimized or even avoided. In this paper we pres...

mum) and the temperature coefficient of d-c output voltage is 1 mv per degree Celsius. A negative capacitance circuit is provided which improves the overall frequency response of the amplifier but unavoidably adds noise to the input signal if large stray capacitances are compensated. Signals of 40 pv through 7 Mohm (microelectrode in saline) can be faithfully reproduced. The amplifier has been ...

To the Editor: In southern Eu-rope, zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania infantum used to be considered a rural disease, but it is becoming more prevalent in urban areas. Outbreaks in urban/periur-ban settings are associated with the urbanization of natural zoonotic foci (1). The presence of a high number of stray dogs in urban/periurban settlements may contribute to the spread ...

This paper presents a novel full-depletion Si X-ray detector based on silicon-on-insulator pixel (SOIPIX) technology using a pinned depleted diode structure, named the SOIPIX-PDD. The SOIPIX-PDD greatly reduces stray capacitance at the charge sensing node, the dark current of the detector, and capacitive coupling between the sensing node and SOI circuits. These features of the SOIPIX-PDD lead t...

The demand for 500 kV and 265 amperes peak to power an X-Band klystron brings up protection issues for klystron faults and the energy dumped into the arc from the modulator. This situation is made worse when more than one klystron will be driven from a single modulator, such as the existing schemes for running two and eight klystrons. High power pulsed klystrons have traditionally be powered by...

The presented high-voltage DC source was designed to enable laboratory measurements of reverse and forward characteristics in non-conducting state of power semiconductor components. It also enables to measure the minimum triggering current or control voltage in dependence of the voltage on main electrodes for SCR, triac or voltage-controlled semiconductor devices such as MOSFET and IGBT, respec...

SiC Schottky Barrier diodes (SiC-SBD) are known to oscillate/ring in the output terminal when used as free-wheeling diodes in voltage source converters. This ringing is due to RLC resonance between the diode capacitance, parasitic resistance and circuit stray inductance. In this paper, a model has been developed for calculating the switching energy of SiC diodes as a function of the switching r...

We propose a model to determine the influence of different cell properties, such as size, membrane capacitance and cytoplasm conductivity, on the impedance spectrum as measured in a microfabricated cytometer. A dielectric sphere of equivalent complex permittivity is used as a simplified model to describe a biological cell. The measurement takes place between a pair of facing microelectrodes in ...