The converter will be used to charge a large battery bank as well as supplying power to a constant power absorbing load. It will have to operate in either constant current mode or constant voltage mode, depending on the state of charge of the battery bank. Peak current mode control is implemented to give this functionality to the converter. The series stack topology also allows interleaved swit...

We study the surface plasmon modes in a silver double-nanowire system by employing the eigenmode analysis approach based on the finite element method. Calculated dispersion relations, surface charge distributions, field patterns and propagation lengths of ten lowest energy plasmon modes in the system are presented. These ten modes are categorized into three groups because they are found to orig...

A conductive substrate can provide a simple and straightforward way to induce charge-transfer plasmon modes in Au nanoparticle clusters. For a simple dimer structure, a remarkably narrow charge transfer plasmon, which differs dramatically from the dipolar plasmon mode of the electrically isolated nanostructure, is clearly observed. For a more complex nonamer cluster that supports a strong Fano ...

Understanding the mechanism of charge generation, distribution, and transfer between surfaces is very important for energy harvesting applications based on triboelectric effect. Here, we demonstrate dynamic nanotriboelectrification with torsional resonance (TR) mode atomic force microscopy (AFM). Experiments on rubbing the sample surface using TR mode for the generation of triboelectric charges...

The behavior at the liquid meniscus under the application of a high voltage 4 10Vp-p , high frequency 10 kHz alternating current ac signal is shown to depend very sensitively on the liquid conductivity and the applied frequency. For pure ethanol, after resonance effects become unimportant, the meniscus oscillates and then changes to a growing conical mode with increasing frequency. For ionic-li...

The mode spectra of small N=3 clusters of dust particles with fluctuating charges are analysed. Building on previous results investigating the influence of charge variance and correlation, efforts were made to quantify these effects on mode spectra via affected mode properties. This allows a more quantitative assessment of results, which is useful particularly as the number of particles in a cl...