Myosin VI has an unexpectedly large swing of its lever arm (powerstroke) that optimizes its unique reverse direction movement. The basis for this is an unprecedented rearrangement of the subdomain to which the lever arm is attached, referred to as the converter. It is unclear at what point(s) in the myosin VI ATPase cycle rearrangements in the converter occur, and how this would effect lever ar...

Among the many advantages that resonant power conversion has over conventionally adopted pulsewidth modulation include a low electromagnetic interference, low switching losses, small volume, and light weight of components due to a high switching frequency, high efficiency, and low reverse recovery losses in diodes owing to a low di/dt at switching instant. This work presents a novel loaded-reso...

This paper presents a new design of zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) buck converter. This new converter utilizes a coupled inductor to implement the output filter inductor as well as the auxiliary inductor which is commonly employed to realize ZVS for switches. Additional magnetic core for the auxiliary inductor in traditional designs is removed and hence manufacture cost is reduced. Moreover, than...

Renewable energy generation systems, based on photovoltaic sources, currently represent the most suitable solution, for low power levels, to reduce the energy consumption produced by oil and gas. Moreover, they are becoming more and more attractive as the price per watt of the photovoltaic modules is decreasing. However, the conversion efficiency of commercial photovoltaic modules is still rath...

In this paper, a new transformerless buck-boost converter based on ZETA converter is introduced. The proposed converter has the ZETA converter advantages such as, buck-boost capability and input to output DC insulation. The suggested converter voltage gain is higher than the classic ZETA converter. In the presented converter, only one main switch is utilized. The proposed converter offers low v...

This letter proposes a self-driven gate driver solely composed of passive components for synchronous rectification (SR). It utilizes the energy converter itself, automatically considers component tolerances and temperature variations critical design parameters, tunes SRs on-time. Furthermore, no microcontroller, auxiliary power supply, or current-sensing/voltage-sensing is required. A great amo...

A circuit technique that reduces the boost-converter losses caused by the reverse-recovery current of the rectifier is described. The losses are reduced by inserting an inductor in the series path of the boost switch and rectifier to control the di=dt rate of the rectifier during its turn off. The energy from the inductor after the boost switch turn off is returned to the input or delivered to ...

This paper proposes a fast Mixed Radix Conversion based reverse converter for the recently proposed moduli set ?{2?^(2n+1)-1,2^n,2^2n-1}. It shows that the computation of multiplicative inverses could be eliminated from the conversion process and presents a low complexity and modulo operation free implementation. Theoretical analysis shows that the proposed scheme outperforms all state of the a...

A non-isolated DC/DC converter with high transfer gain is proposed in this paper. The presented converter consists of the switched inductor and three-level converters. The DC/DC power converter is three-level boost converter to convert the output voltage of the DC source into two voltage sources. The main advantages of DC/DC converter are using low voltage semiconductors and high gain voltage. ...

This paper focuses on the role of the power MOSFET in achieving high-efficiency converter design. It provides a brief overview of current low-voltage MOSFET trench technologies, along with a discussion about onresistance versus gate charge trade-offs for MOSFETs optimized for use as control or synchronous switches. It covers the importance of the integrated Schottky diode (SyncFETTM MOSFET) in ...