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Charge measurement using an array of Faraday’s Cups on a printed circuit board

2014

Abstract An absolute method of measuring charge is to use a Faraday Cup (FC) principle. This study relates to a novel method of measuring charge on a flat substrate, which is coated with charged powder particles. The substrate consists of an array of FC with different dimensions. The sensor is manufactured using flame-retardant printed circuit board (PCB) technology. The objective of this work is to reduce the charge sharing by developing a grounded shield cup around each conductive cup in the array and accordingly increase cup-to-ground capacitance. The results have confirmed that the improved well shielding would provide a more accurate quantitative charge measurement.

Noise and gain performance of PSA transistor series for personal communication systems vs. emitter number and operating conditions

1995

The booming market of communication system applications in the low microwave range put greater demands on the component performance at lower supply voltages and limited current consumption, as well as on production cost and integration level. In this work, we present the results of an extensive characterization activity carried out on several advanced polysilicon bipolar transistors as requested by the manufacturer. The devices were grouped according to their emitter finger number and were characterized over the 2-6 GHz frequency range in terms of noise, gain and scatterino parameters at different bias conditions. A comparative analysis has been performed to explore how the transistor perfo…

Parameterizing non-linear magnetic cores for PSpice Simulation

2005

Abstract. In this paper the main Jiles & Atherton parameters of a magnetic material, according to their particular working condition (mainly frequency, temperature and waveform) are calculated by means of a systematic procedure that use PSpice and MathCad. The modelled magnetic material is used for power electronics circuit simulation, which uses magnetic materials, working at frequencies in the region of kH, to construct transformers and inductors. Magnetic materials are the most critical components in electronics simulators due to their nonlinear behaviour and the accuracy in the simulation can only be obtained through a proper magnetic material modelling. This paper examines the modellin…

DC link voltage swinging and load current unbalance in fault tolerant VSI. overview and compensation strategies

2015

The topic of this paper is the discussion on the performance of a three-phase fault tolerant inverter with particular attention to the underrated aspect of current unbalances occurring due to the DC link voltage fluctuates after the inverter reconfiguration. Capacitor voltage unbalance affects not only the average output voltage of the inverter, but also its performance. In fact, the inverter performance depends on the fluctuating DC-link voltage components rather than on the average DC-link voltage. After a brief analysis of the voltage fluctuation phenomena resulting from fault tolerant configuration and their effect on load current unbalance, the Authors consider different compensating p…

Reducing DC Link Voltage Unbalance in a Fault-Tolerant Inverter

2014

Today, continuous working of power inverter drives is mandatory for several applications. Damages to materials, machines or even risks to human life have to be absolutely avoided. In the literature, fault-tolerant algorithms and architectures to achieve a successful fault handling are investigated. Researchers aim at reducing the number and cost of additional components, improving at the same time the inverter performances under postfault conditions. Cost, post-fault power derating and increasing distortion are usually conflicting requirements. In this paper, a fault-tolerant three phase inverter is presented. A reconfigurable architecture and a novel fault-tolerant algorithm is designed to…

A fuel cell-battery hybrid power supply for portable applications

2010

Today, academic and industrial research is addressed to fuel cell based hybrid power supply in many fields of applications including stationary, automotive and portable electronics. Increasing source runtime, speeding up the transient response while minimizing weight, volume and cost of the power supply system are key requirements of all applications. According to the particular application, the power management system is optimized for a specific feature. In this paper, a fuel cell–battery hybrid power supply for a Digital Camera is proposed, although the control algorithm can be efficiently applied to any portable device. Thanks to an innovative control on the input power, any fuel cell pr…

Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) Sensors for Integrated Circuits (IC) Electric Current Measurement

2013

We report on MgO Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) devices focusing on their potential application in the measurement of electrical current at the integrated circuit level. Single devices and full bridges have been specifically developed for this purpose. A sort of different designs regarding their geometry arrangement as well as the number of constitutive elements have been tested. Experimental characterization has been performed and results including impedance and sensitivity measurements are given.

Corrigendum to “Design of compensated multiport waveguide junctions considering mechanization effects” [AEUE – Int J Electron Commun, 69 (1) (2015), …

2015

Quasifractal planar microstrip resonators for microwave circuits

1999

We propose a new shape for microwave planar circuits using the self-similarity of the fractal geometry. This new shape allows the generation of numerous resonant frequencies for this microwave planar resonator due to the surface's encasing. The resonant frequency assessment can be useful for the concept of filters or wide frequency band matching loads as examples, without consuming circuit surface. ©1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 21: 433–436, 1999.

A DC behavioral electrical model for quasi-linear spin-valve devices including thermal effects for circuit simulation

2011

An advanced model for quasi-linear spin-valve (SV) structures is presented for circuit simulation purposes. The model takes into account electrical and thermal effects in a coupled way in order to allow a coherent representation of the sensor physics for design purposes of electronics applications based on these sensor devices. The model was implemented in Verilog-A and used in a commercial circuit simulator. For testing the model, different SV structures have been specifically fabricated and measured. The characterization included DC measurements as well as steady-state and transient thermal analysis. From the experimental data, the parameters of the model have been extracted. The model re…