RONG, GUO. High Efficiency Charge Pump Based DC-DC Converter for Wide Input/ Output Range Applications. (Under the direction of Dr. Alex Q. Huang.) Portable electronic devices are taking an indispensable part in people’s everyday life. To meet the growing needs of people, the number of function blocks inside the portable devices keeps on increasing but the portable devices tend to be small and ...

This paper presents the operational characteristics of a high voltage flyback converter with resonant elements. In high voltage low power applications, the effect of a transformer’s stray capacitance might be the most important factor that influences the overall performance of the circuit. A detailed mode analysis and the design procedure are presented in designing the high voltage flyback conv...

This paper presents a high step up DC-DC converter to boost low voltage PV system voltage. The switched capacitor converter can obtain a high voltage gain but the line and load regulation is poor and the output voltage is not regulated. The output regulation of the non isolated switching mode DC-DC converter is excellent but the voltage gain cannot be too high.A combination method of the SC con...

i ABSTRACT The partially-depleted (PD) silicon Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MESFET) is becoming more and more attractive for analog and RF applications due to its high breakdown voltage. Compared to conventional CMOS high voltage transistors, the silicon MESFET can be fabricated in commercial standard Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) CMOS foundries without any change to the process. T...

High-power thyristors with direct light -triggering and integrated protection functions can be utilized advantageously for applications in which several thyristors are connected in series. This applies in particular to High-Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission, Static Var Compensation (SVC), converters for medium voltage drives, and also to certain pulse power applications. Recent progress in both de...

In this paper, a high speed delay-locked loop (DLL) architecture ispresented which can be employed in high frequency applications. In order to design the new architecture, a new mixed structure is presented for phase detector (PD) and charge pump (CP) which canbe triggered by double edges of the input signals. In addition, the blind zone is removed due to the elimination of reset signal. Theref...

Absrracr-Various circuit topologies and control techniques have been proposed on inverters for AC power supply applications but without much emphasis on very high power systems. Incorporation of a non conventional inverter topology known as multilevel inverter with an optimal PWM based control scheme is proposed in this work for high voltage applications when the switching frequency of the inve...

The authors thank SL Smith for technical assistance, NM Magoski for evaluation of previous drafts of the manuscript, and the two anonymous reviewers for constructive criticism of the work. KEG held a RS McLaughlin Fellowship and NSM holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award. Supported by a CIHR operating grant to NSM. Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (April 2...