Highly powered electrostatic capacitors based on nanostructures with a high aspect ratio are becoming critical for advanced energy storage technology because of their high burst power and energy storage capability. We report the fabrication process and the electrical characteristics of high capacitance density capacitors with three-dimensional solid-state nanocapacitors based on a ZnO nanowire ...

A new single-stage single-switch input-currentshaping (S4ICS) technique, which combines the boost-like input-current shaper with a continuous-conduction-mode (CCM) dc/dc output stage, is described. In this technique, the boost inductor can operate in both the discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) and CCM. Due to the ability to keep a relatively low voltage (<450 Vdc) on the energy-storage capacit...

Nano-composite films have been the subject of extensive work for developing the energy-storage efficiency of electrostatic capacitors. Factors such as polymer purity, nanoparticle size, and film morphology drastically affect the electrostatic efficiency of the dielectric material that forms the insulating film between the conductive electrodes of a capacitor. This in turn affects the energy sto...

Cobalt oxide films were prepared by electrochemically precipitating the hydroxide and heating it in air to form Co3O4. The resulting oxide films behave as a capacitor. The materials were studied emphasizing their use as either positive or negative electrodes in devices. The capacitance of the material was estimated at different heating temperatures and insight was gained into the charge storage...

In this paper, a new energy harvesting technology using stray electric field of an electric power line is presented. It is found that energy can be harvested and stored in the storage capacitor that is connected to a cylindrical aluminum foil wrapped around a commercial insulated 220 V power line. The average current flowing into 47 μF storage capacitor is about 4.53 μA with 60 cm long cylindri...

A general impedance synthesizer using a minimum number of switching converters is studied in this paper. We begin with showing that any impedance can be synthesized by a circuit consisting of only two simple power converters, one storage element (e.g., capacitor), and one dissipative element (e.g., resistor) or power source. The implementation of such a circuit for synthesizing any desired impe...

In this paper a new topology is proposed for energy storage and the power distribution using Ultracapacitors in cascaded multilevel inverters. This consists of hybrid cascaded multilevel inverter (HCMI) topologies and corresponding control strategies are applied to motor drive, interfacing both dc sources and capacitor energy storage elements. For high power motor drive application this propose...

This paper presents a bidirectional DC-DC converter suitable for low-voltage super capacitor-based electric energy storage systems. The DC-DC converter presented here consists of a full-bridge circuit and a current-fed push-pull circuit with a high frequency (HF) transformer-link. In order to reduce the device-conduction losses due to the large current of the super capacitor as well as unnecess...