Wearable thermoelectric generators (TEGs) harvest thermal energy generated by the body to generate useful electricity. The performance of these systems is limited by (1) the small working temperature differential between the body and ambient, (2) the desire to use natural air convection cooling on the cold side of the generator, and (3) the requirement for thin, lightweight systems that are com...

This paper presents efficiency analysis of the power buffering in common voltage bus systems. Operation of the power buffering is briefly described with the power control experiments. The efficiency measurement setup and performed measurements from the charging and discharging events of the ultracapacitor module with the dc-dc converter are presented. As a result, the efficiency map of the dc-d...

In silicon-based solar cells, a substantial part of the energy losses is related to the charge carriers thermalization in the UV-blue range and the week carriers collection at these wavelenghts. To avoid this issue, we introduce a new concept which combines a rare-earths doped thin layer with a photonic crystal (PC) layer, allowing an efficient conversion from UV-blue photons to near-IR photons...

We present a measurement module that computes the charge from the transient supply current and provides a digital value of this magnitude. The module is constructed to provide a feasible implementation of transient current testing in production-like environments. Experimental results demonstrate up to 1 GHz analog bandwidth, while the effective test speed is mainly determined by the A/D convert...

–In this paper, we present the architecture and design of a color space conversion module. The color space converter module is used for changing the image from RGB color space to YCbCr color space. The color space conversion module was designed using VHDL and was implemented on an FPGA. This design methodology helped us to achieve faster the time to market and also the ability to reuse one phys...

In this paper, we present the architecture and design of a color space conversion module. The color space converter module is used for changing the image from RGB color space to YCbCr color space and vice-versa. The color space conversion module was designed using VHDL and was implemented on an FPGA. This design methodology helped us to achieve faster the time to market and also the ability to ...

From the history of power electronics, the technology improvements in power semiconductors have been the driving force for this problem. Moving from bipolar to MOSFET technology has greatly increased switching speed. For current semiconductor technology, very fast devices are available. For the power MOSFET used in front end application, they could be switched with mega hertz frequency range. T...

This paper presents a method for designing the control loop for dc-to-dc converters when uncertainties exist in the ac characteristics of the converter’s load. In the proposed method, a converter is initially considered as a stand-alone module feeding a current sink load and the control loop of the converter is then designed in a way that maximizes the robustness of the converter’s closed-loop ...

This paper presents the design and simulation for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for photovoltaic system, which includes a high-efficiency dc-dc boost converter with a modified incremental conductance algorithm. The converter can draw maximum power from the PV panel for a given solar insolation and temperature by adjusting the duty cycle of the converter. The modelling procedure for the ci...

This paper investigates performance of Fuzzy Supervisory Controller (FSC) in control of power converters. A FSC module is added to conventional narrow bandwidth voltage regulator in Power Factor Corrected (PFC), Voltage Source Converter (VSC) to improve DC bus voltage regulation. PFC converter is selected for this work as conventional design of the PFC converter requires narrow bandwidth DC bus...