Distributed power systems are prevalent in telecommunications, networking, and high-end server applications and generally utilize a 48 V bus voltage adopted from the telecom industry. From the 48 V bus, a number of isolated point of load (POL) converters power the end loads, with isolation being required for safety. The traditional distributed power architecture (DPA), shown in figure 1(a), use...

A long-lasting challenge in comparative physiology is to understand why the efficiency of the mechanical work done to maintain locomotion increases with body mass. It has been suggested that this is due to a more elastic step in larger animals. Here, we show in running, hopping and trotting animals, and in human running during growth, that the resonant frequency of the bouncing system decreases...

A family of compact microstrip antennas are presented targeting applications such as Long-Term Evolution (LTE), Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), Universal Mobile Telecommunications system (UMTS), Global System Mobile (GSM) and global positioning system (GPS). These antennas consist of a rectangular shaped structure printed over FR4 substrate. The antenna occupies a small volume of 70x54x1.6...

We develop a numerical solver for the integral-differential equations, which describe the radiative transfer of photon distribution in the frequency space with resonant scattering of Lyα photons by hydrogen gas in the early universe. The time-dependent solutions of this equation is crucial to the estimation of the effect of the Wouthuysen-Field (WF) coupling in relation to the 21 cm emission an...

A model for field error penetration is developed that includes non-resonant as well as the usual resonant field error effects. The non-resonant components cause a neoclassical toroidal viscous torque that tries to keep the plasma rotating at a rate comparable to the ion diamagnetic frequency. The new theory is used to examine resonant error-field penetration threshold scaling in ohmic tokamak p...

Recently, the LLC resonant converter has drawn a lot of attention due to its advantages over the conventional series resonant converter and parallel resonant converter: narrow frequency variation over wide load and input variation and Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) of the switches for entire load range. This paper presents an analysis and reviews practical design considerations for the LLC-type r...

This paper presents a design technique of magnetic integrated LLCL filters for grid-tied inverters. With the proposed technique, filter's resonant frequency can be higher than Nyquist frequency. Furthermore, concept was only reported LCL filter in previous research works. In addition, modulation process will produce dominant switching harmonics unipolar PWM H-bridge inverters at double Thus, pu...

The concept of “energy harvesting” is to design smart systems to capture the ambient energy and to convert it to usable electrical power for supplying small electronics devices and sensors. The goal is to develop autonomous and self-powered devices that do not need any replacement of traditional electrochemical batteries. Now piezoelectric cantilever structures are being used to harvest vibrati...

Introduction: Natural materials are more efficient and attractive than synthetic materials. In this study, the sound absorption behavior by natural kenaf composite and Micro-Perforated Panel (MPP) at low and medium frequency region was investigated. Material and Methods: Initially, the results of kenaf fibers with a thickness of 10 mm were validated by the Finite Element Method (FEM) based on ...