We investigate the formation of steady gas flows—so-called electric winds—created by point-plane corona discharges driven by time oscillating (ac) electric fields. By varying the magnitude and frequency of the applied field, we identify two distinct scaling regimes: (i) a low frequency (dc) regime and (ii) a high frequency (ac) regime. These experimental observations are reproduced and explaine...

The design of a full electric vehicle (or battery electric vehicle (BEV)) requires the development and optimization of a complete electric powertrain, including battery, power electronics, electric machine, sensors and control system. When designing an electrical platform, from the very beginning of the V-cycle, it is mandatory to rely on modelling and simulation tools in order to drive the mai...

The challenge for distributed power supply engineers is to design a fast switching DC-DC converter with improved transient response, while still maintaining or increasing efficiency. This has to be achieved in the tight thermal envelope required for reliable system operation and at minimal cost. This paper discusses the use of 20V MOSFETs or the economical design of high efficiency DC-DC conver...

Automated Test Equipment (ATE) historically has been built with a centralized power architecture. Silver boxes provided a limited number of standardized voltage supplies, which were then routed to individual test cards. This arrangement was effective and convenient, as instrument card circuits did not require significant power levels: most voltages were linearly regulated from the closest avail...

DC-DC power converters with multiple inputs and a single output are used in numerous applications where multiple sources, e.g., two or more renewable energy sources and/or a battery, feed a single load. In this work a classical boost converter topology with two input branches connected to two different sources is chosen, with each branch independently being controlled by a separate peak current...

A novel integrated single-inductor dual-output (SIDO) buck converter with peak current common-mode and the two output voltage ripples comparison differential-mode control method in continuous conduction mode is presented. The system can use only one inductor to provide two independent output voltages, 1.2V and 1.8V, with a maximum total output current 460mA. The proposed converter has been fabr...

A DC-DC step-up micro power converter for solar energy harvesting applications is presented. The circuit is based on a switchedcapacitor voltage tripler architecture with MOSFET capacitors, which results in an area approximately eight times smaller than using MiM capacitors for the 0.13μm CMOS technology. In order to compensate for the loss of efficiency, due to the larger parasitic capacitance...

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 this paper, the dynamics of a DC-DC boost power converter under variable structure control is studied applying bifurcation analysis techniques. The switching hyperplane coefficients are considered as bifurcation parameters. The dynamic phenomena detected in this work suggest new types of sliding bifurcations. This analysis is relevant in the context of sliding mode control with auxiliary ada...