A high voltage capacitor is relatively frequently switched during the periods of the system operations. The distribution transformers are subjected to many stresses during normal and abnormal operations. In this paper we simulate a portion of the distribution network of Durgapur Steel Plant using MATLAB 7.7 and observe the effects of capacitor switching events on transformer terminal at differe...

This work presents a CMOS integrated interface circuit (IIC) enabling highly efficient energy transfer from piezoelectric generators (PGs) to a storage element, e.g. a large capacitor. Due to the low power consumption of 4.7 μW assuming a supply voltage of 2.5 V, the IIC can be supplied totally by the storage capacitor. The storage capacitor can be passively charged via a bypassing circuit if i...

We report on a measurement procedure to separate ferroelectric switching current and dielectric displacement current from the leakage current in leaky ferroelectric thin-film capacitor structures. The ac current response is determined for two adjacent frequencies. Taking advantage of the different frequency dependencies of the ferroelectric switching current, dielectric displacement current and...

Abstract— This paper extends the traditional family of PWM DC-DC converters. By employing voltage capacitor-multipliers, converters provide high voltage gains. The capacitor multiplier of each converter is driven by the same transistor of the well-known basic topology. The main features of these new converters are: (i) high-voltage gain without extreme duty cycles and transformerless. Therefor...

Multilevel inverters have several advantages over the conventional two level inverters due to their lower switching frequency, reduced switching stresses, low EMI and EMC issues, ability to achieve high voltage levels, low THD etc. Multilevel inverters can synthesize the desired voltage from several levels of DC voltages. This paper presents the comparison of three level Flying capacitor and Ca...

The capability to deposit charge and energy quantum-by-quantum into a specific atomic site could lead to many previously unidentified applications. Here we report on the quantum capacitor formed by a strongly localized field possessing such capability. We investigated the charging dynamics of such a capacitor by using the unique scanning tunneling microscopy that combines nanosecond temporal an...

This paper describes a 12-bit 100kS/s successive approximation register analog-todigital converter (SAR ADC) for biomedical system. Both top-plate sampling technique and VCM-based switching technique are applied to the capacitor digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) to implement a 12-bit SAR ADC with 10-b capacitor array DAC. To enhance the linearity of proposed ADC, thermometer decoder is used in...

This paper focuses on the development of capacitor voltage balancing methods in a flying capacitor multilevel inverter (FCMLI) fed induction motor drive. For improve the performance of flying capacitor multilevel inverter to implement a switching pattern selection scheme. This reduces capacitor voltage fluctuation without using voltage feedback and RLC Filter circuits connected in parallel with...

Gradient error can be compensated by optimizing switching sequences of DAC arrays. This paper establishes an absolute lower bound of integral nonlinearity (INL) which may be achieved by optimizing switching sequences. Optimal switching sequences that meet this lower bound are presented for one-dimensional linear gradient error compensation in unary (thermometer decoded) DAC arrays. The sequence...