This study examined the step-down DC-DC converter with high-efficiency appropriate for hybrid vehicles. The above described converter supplies power to electronic components such as headlights and air conditioners by replacing an electric generator of an internal combustion engine and converting the high voltage of a main battery to low voltage (12 V). In this study, the development specificati...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract: By having an eye on present scenario of our earth, it has been seen that global warming has been increasing dangerously and it affects our environment in hazardous ways. The major reason for the same is due to the blind dependency on non-renewable...

Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) offer many advantages, such as high fuel economy, low emissions, and silent operation. In HEVs, there are two or more different voltage buses for different purposes of the vehicle operation. There are needs of galvanically isolated bidirectional DC-DC converter to link different DC voltage bus and transfer energy back and forth. For example, on of the DC-DC conve...

Operation of traditional fieldmeters typically relies on mechanically actuated capacitance for DC fields measurement. This paper provides theoretical background for operation of an electric field sensor with a solid state variable capacitor. Design is supported by circuit and FEA models, illustrating the operation. Theoretical work is verified against results of sensor’s tests performed in DC, ...

Hybrid energy storage system (HESS) can be adopted in hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and pure electric vehicles (HEV, PHEV, and EV), where a bidirectional DC-DC converter (BDC) is used to connect batteries and ultra-capacitors. The efficiency improvement of the BDC is beneficial to increase the efficiency viability of HESS. Due to ZVS, high efficiency can be obtained at heavy load operations while the...

In this paper, a non isolated multi-input multi-output dc–dc boost converter is proposed. This converter is used to implant alternative energy sources in electric vehicles. However, advantages of different sources of energy are achievable by the implant energy sources. This converter has many outputs with different voltage levels, which can be interfaced with multilevel inverters. In this conve...

We have investigated the influence of strong dc. magnetic fields--ranging up to 10 Tesla--on the weak sinusoidal electric signals which the electro-fish Apteronotus is known to emit. We made the following observations: 1. The amplitude of the sinusoidal electric signals rises with the application of the dc. magnetic fields, increasing by about 8% in a field of 10 Tesla. 2. The frequency of the ...

Endogenous electric fields (EFs) play an important role in many biological processes. In order to gain an insight into these biological phenomena, externally applied electric fields are used to study cellular responses. In this work, we report the construction and fabrication of a direct current (DC)-electrically stimulated microfluidic biochip and its validation with murine photoreceptor-deriv...

Electric circuit analysis determines the voltage and current distribution in an electric circuit due to applied source voltages or currents. In a static (DC) electric circuit analysis, the voltage and current distribution in an electric circuit is determined that is subjected to applied DC source voltages or currents. In a harmonic (AC) electric circuit analysis, the voltage and current distrib...