Low Cost Versatile Power Electronics Teaching Platform

Versatile Wireless Platform for Low-power Applications

During the past decade numerous wireless sensor network (WSN) simulators have been proposed to gain deeper insight into the interactions between the sensor nodes that cooperate to achieve a common goal. While computer simulations are an essential first step to preliminarily validate new concepts, including ad-hoc network routing protocols, radio communication, node self-localization or time syn...

Fullerene nanowires as a versatile platform for organic electronics

The development of organic semiconducting nanowires that act as charge carrier transport pathways in flexible and lightweight nanoelectronics is a major scientific challenge. We report on the fabrication of fullerene nanowires that is universally applicable to its derivatives (pristine C(60), methanofullerenes of C(61) and C(71), and indene C(60) bis-adduct), realized by the single particle nan...

Ultra-Low-Cost Printed Electronics

Guest editorial: low-power electronics and design

I N THE last decade, power dissipation has become a critical design metric for an increasingly large number of VLSI circuits. The main driving factor for this trend is the exploding market of portable electronic appliances, which calls for complex integrated systems that can be powered by lightweight batteries with long periods between recharges. Additionally, system cost must be extremely low ...

Internet-Based Learning Platform for Power Electronics Courses

This paper presents internet-based learning platform for power electronics courses. The aim of the proposed distance learning system is to realize a platform capable of constructing a wide range of circuit topologies and control techniques, thus enabling students to gain better understanding of power electronics converters through practical experiments. The proposed platform consists of a recon...