In this paper an efficient high step-up converter with a coupled- inductor with soft- switching operation is presented. The proposed topology includes a coupled-inductor boost converter for raising the voltage gain. Moreover, a simple auxiliary resonant circuit composed of an auxiliary switch, a clamping diode and a resonant tank (inductor, capacitor), is adopted in this paper. The coupled-indu...

The input electrical impedance behaves as a capacitive when a piezoelectric transducer is excited near its resonance frequency. In order to increase the energy transmission efficiency, a series or parallel inductor should be used to compensate the capacitive impedance of the piezoelectric transducer. In this paper, the effect of the series matching inductor on the electromechanical characterist...

An eddy current sensor with an ink-jet printed flexible inductor has been designed and fabricated. The inductor has been designed by means of software developed in-house. It has been fabricated by ink-jet printing with silver ink on a flexible substrate. The inductor is a part of the oscillator circuit whose oscillating frequency is measured by a microcontroller. The sensor characteristics have...

Inductor with gradual changed metal width and space by good design can get better Q factor than the inductor with fixed metal width and space. In this paper, a simple wide-band inductor model is presented considering both the increase of resistance and the decrease of inductance due to the skin and proximity effects. This model has been verified with simulation and the experimental results of s...

This paper presents the electrical and thermal analysis of an OLED module. The OLED module consists of the OLED element and the DC-DC converter incorporated in its backplane. The DC-DC converter is realized as an integrated circuit and uses an external inductor. The inductor is embedded in the substrate of the backplane and has a spiral geometry. The DC-DC converter is highly efficient, but a f...

This paper presents an analysis of coupled inductor for interleaved boost converter and the effect of coupled inductor on current ripple reduction and on load transient response time. From the analysis a ETD core based coupled inductor structure is proposed to maximize the performance of the DC-DC converter. The inductor can be designed in convenient way by using commercially manufactured coil ...

High-order filters, such as inductor-capacitor-inductor ( LCL) filter, have been popular in grid-tied power converters. Although featuring small size, LCL filters are not grid friendly due to inherent resonance, especially when a large number of converters parallel operation todays electric attain modularity, reliability, and redundancy advantages. Thus, this article reconsiders the low-order L...

Abs t rac t A l o s s l e s s turn-on snubber was studied a n a l y t i c a l l y , b y s imulat ion and exper imenta l ly . Limits were found for the proper operat ion o f the snubber and are expressed as permiss ib l e duty c y c l e as a funct ion o f input current. It was found that a modified v e r s i o n o f the snubber, which includes a tapped main inductor, improves the performance b y...

This paper demonstrates an on-chip di/dt detector circuit. The di/dt detector circuit consists of a power supply line, an underlying spiral inductor and an amplifier. The mutual inductor induces a di/dt proportional voltage, and the amplifier amplifies and outputs the value. The measurement results show that the di/dt detector output and the voltage difference between a resistor have good agree...

The inductors made of carbon Nanotube (CNT) have been proposed. Though the fabrication of the proposed inductor is still challenging and has many problems, merits of the proposed inductor are following, (i)The magnetic field induced by the current in CNT is about one thousand times larger than that induced by the current in normal copper wire. (ii)The large magnetic field results in the large i...