Active filters provide significant harmonic and reactive power compensation and are thereby widely accepted as devices for power quality enhancement.. Many research works have been done to improve the dynamic performance of active filters. Current research work focuses on implementing a Minimally Switched Shunt Active Power filter for power quality enhancement. Minimally switched grid interacti...

This paper proposes a new robustly adaptive hysteresis current digital control algorithm for half-bridge inverters, which plays an important role in electric power, and in various applications in electronic systems. The proposed control algorithm is assumed to be implemented on a high-speed Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuit, using measured data with high sampling frequency. The hyste...

Portable electronic devices not only require switching DC-DC converters to be compact and integrated but also compliant to wide off-chip LC filter variations, which are subject to manufacturing tolerances, temporal and thermal parameter drifts, and more often than not, application-driven constraints. While optimal LC compliance has been demonstrated in ΣΔ buck converters, little has been done i...

In this paper, a multiphase sliding mode (MPSM) control method with a master–slave structure is proposed and analyzed in order to suppress ripples at input terminals or output terminals in DC/DC converter applications. With the proposed MPSM, the switching frequency of a multiphase DC/DC converter does not need to be operating such a high switching frequency as adopted in a conventional sliding...

It is well known that calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are the first line of therapy for vasospastic angina (VSA). Here, we report two cases of VSA with an increase in the frequency of angina attacks after switching from a brand-name to a generic CCB. In both cases, angina recurred upon switching from a brand-name CCB to a generic CCB during follow-up. The patients' condition improved upon switc...

This chapter presents several design examples of high-density, high-efficiency (HDHE), low-voltage power supply using the proposed IM circuits. The theoretical results derived from the previous chapters are applied. The following examples will be used to demonstrate the design of high density modules using the proposed IM technique. • For 70V input and 2.5V/140A output, at the switching frequen...

Soft-switching DC-DC converter using Phase-Shifted Pulse Width Modulation (PS-PWM) on secondary side of highfrequency transformer is described in the paper. The converter consists of a full-bridge inverter fitted with fast IGBT transistors. The output power of the converter is controlled by rectifier made up of two snap-off diodes in series with MOSFET transistors which is connected on secondar...

We investigate, by experiments and numerical simulations, thermal activation processes of Josephson tunnel junctions in the presence of microwave radiation. When the applied signal resonates with the Josephson plasma frequency oscillations, the switching current may become multi-valued temperature ranges both below and above the the classical to quantum crossover temperature. Switching current ...

Fast optical switching (μs timebase) is realized by using a RF frequency tone inserted in the optical packet that carries a digital payload. By using a highly selective RF filtering for optical packet header frequency recognition, we have obtained excellent performance in optical switching function.. The RF header is detected at optical node input, and signals the node switching control, which ...