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This paper presents a hybrid multilevel inverter with DC bypass. Mixed modulation method is proposed to balance dc voltage, and enables Si devices & wide bandgap devices integration to reduce power loss and achieve high power density. Simulation results are firstly provided to verify the validity of the proposed approach.
This paper presents Direct Power Control (DPC) based on instantaneous power theory is presented. The simulation of a grid connected five level inverter via an inductive filter with a new direct power strategy is used. However, this control method is similar to the classic DPC method, in which used triangles instead of the sectors. Furthermore, the regulation of DC link without interfering the hysteresis...
In this paper, key aspects of silicon-carbide (SiC)-based automotive traction drives are reviewed. Firstly, the required supporting factors to achieve optimal operating conditions and best performance are described. Major component sizing methodologies and constraints are included. Expectations on gate threshold voltage, trans-conductance, and transient oscillation are discussed. Tolerance against...
Half SRAM cells with strained Si nanowire complementary Tunnel-FETs (CTFET) have been fabricated to explore the capability of TFETs for 6T-SRAM. Static measurements on cells with outward faced n-TFET access transistors have been performed to determine the SRAM butterfly curves, allowing the assessment of cell functionality and stability. The forward p-i-n leakage at certain bias configuration of the...
This paper proposes a novel approach to photovoltaic (PV) module level power electronics (MLPE). Functionally, it is a hybrid of PV power optimizer and microinverter with such key features as shade-tolerant (or global) maximum power point tracking (MPPT), galvanic isolation, direct AC connectivity, PV module level monitoring and safety cut-off, flexibility of installation and PV power system sizing...
At present, the SiC devices have been widely concerned with the excellent characteristics of low switching losses, which can significantly improve the frequency of power electronic converters, and also have broad application prospects in the field of rail transportation. In this paper, through the establishment of 1500V powered subway auxiliary inverter loss model, the author estimated loss and efficiency...
In this paper, a 400kHz high-frequency dual-buck inverter is fabricated for the applications of small scale renewable energy generation. A systematic calculation method for the converter's loss distribution is proposed to evaluate the efficiency. This method concerns the impacts caused by the high frequency on the loss distribution, which are always neglected by the traditional method. In the last,...
Statistical link analysis and link budget calculation is the essential part for current high-speed system design. Because of the difficulty of low bit-error rate (BER) simulation at SPICE transient solver, several methods were proposed to simulate low BER in a short time. Single-bit response (SBR) method is the most basic method; it uses SBR to construct the arbitrary waveform under the assumption...
In this paper, a proposal for optimizing the utilization of batteries within grid-connected PV-plants is introduced and discussed. Batteries are utilized for obtaining both the conventional energy storage task and the maximum power generation of a PV-module operating under partial shading conditions. In practice, as an alternative to the conventional way of utilizing batteries as a centralized storage-bank,...
An input/output characteristics of the inverter composed of the DNA/Si-MOSFET and the parasitic capacity was studied. The DNA was bridged between the Si electrodes those serve as the source and drain with the 120nm-gap-length. At VDD=0V and VDD=3V, the output characteristic was almost the same. The reason of this phenomenon is that the space charge layer of the DNA/Si-MOSFET changes due to the charge...
We demonstrate, for the first time, the 3D Monolithic (3DM) integration of In0.53GaAs nFETs on FDSOI Si CMOS featuring short-channel Replacement Metal Gate (RMG) InGaAs n-FinFETs on the top layer and Gate-First Si CMOS on the bottom layer with TiN/W inter-layer contacts. State-of-the-art device integration is achieved with the top layer InGaAs utilizing raised source drain (RSD) and the bottom layer...
The aim of this paper is to explain a novel technique to improve voltage and frequency profiles on microgrids controlled using the droop control scheme. The method consists on retuning the controller according to the present load scenario by adjusting the droop coefficients in a way that is proportional to the load changes. The proposed technique is tested through numerical simulations and the results...
When a severe grid voltage sag has happened, the transient rush current caused by grid voltage sag can not be effectively suppressed by the voltage controlled grid tied inverter based on the conventional virtual synchronous generator(VSG) control. In order to improve the capacity of voltage controlled grid tied inverter to withstand power grid voltage sag, the paper proposes an enhanced robust strategy...
In order to simplify the configuration of photovoltaic (PV) grid-connection system, this paper proposes to adopt a buck-boost dc-dc converter, and then develops a single-phase inverter via the connection with an H-bridge unfolding circuit with line-commutated. Depending on the conditions of dc input-voltage and ac output-voltage, the proposed circuit can work functionally as either a step-down or...
With the widespread use of solar energy, the grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems based on solid state transformer (SST) have considerable prospect. This paper presents the design and demonstration of a three-phase 800-V/10-kV 1-MW SST for grid-connected PV system. The topology of the 10-kV/1-MW SST is designed as a modular structure containing the dual active bridge (DAB) converter and full bridge...
Flexible electronics is promising for a number of emerging applications such as foldable smartphone, wearables and internet of things (IoT) [1], [2], [3]. However, the key elements of flexible electronics, the thin-film transistors (TFT), often suffer from large process variations and inferior reliability. There is also a lack of trustworthy compact models for these devices. This paper gives an overview...
In this paper we propose a new front-end for resonating sensors which is based on a logic inverter working as amplifier. The front-end is compact and auto-zeroing which makes it a good candidate for integration and for low power applications. It has been simulated in AMS-350nm CMOS Technology and a prototype has been fabricated using discrete components on a PCB. The circuit was tested with a BvD...
In last two decays increasing demand of connecting natural sources of energy to the power grid, applications of Multilevel inverters (MLI's) have been increased for medium and high power DC to AC conversion. The component count always a challenge with increase in number of levels. This paper presents a MLI topology with less number of switches for generation of high level AC output voltage. This topology...
Ring Oscillator (RO) Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is one of the most popular silicon PUFs which exploit manufacturing variations during the chip fabrication process. RO PUF can generate secret bits by comparing the frequency difference between two ROs. However, previous RO PUFs improve flexibility and reliability through adding redundant ROs and thus incur unacceptable hardware overheads. In...
The profitability of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems and, hence, the penetration of this renewable energy source in the society, can be improved by sizing optimization, just finding a correct matching between the PV array peak power and the inverter nominal power. However, PV designers usually base the system sizing on rule-of-thumbs or rough estimations, which implies losing the opportunity...
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