Conventional switched capacitor converters have an inherent drawback that their efficiency decreases as the output current increases. This inherent drawback is due to a periodical forced charging and discharging operation in the internal switched capacitors accompanied by a large capacitor current. Their efficiency can not be increased by decreasing its internal resistance. As a result, convent...

Micromachined gyroscope always contains two groups of capacitors, one is the driving capacitor, which is used to drive the micromachined gyroscope, to make sure the gyroscope could oscillate along the driving direction. The other is so called the sensing capacitor, which used to detect the displacement along the sensing direction, in order to detect the input angle velocity. Since there are som...

Utilizing capacitor banks is very conventional in distribution network in order for local compensation of reactive power. This will be more important considering uncertainties including wind generation and loads uncertainty. Harmonics and non-linear loads are other challenges in power system which complicates the capacitor placement problem. Thus, uncertainty and network harmonics have been con...

The various optimal capacitor placement techniques on transmission and distributions lines for line losses reduction and enhancement of voltage stability in the power system network have been proposed so far in different papers. Optimal Capacitor placement is an optimization problem which has an objective to define the sizes and locations of capacitors to be installed. This paper focuses on the...

3D interdigitated pyrolytic carbon microelectrodes (3D IDE) with high complexity and interconnectivity were fabricated taking advantage of suspended microstructures. A novel fabrication method for a polymer precursor template was developed based on dual photoresist process including multiple UV exposures at two different wavelengths. The structures subsequently pyrolyzed 1100°C 1 h in N2 enviro...

The electrical performance of Hybrid capacitors (US Patent 5,369,547) using high capacitance density electrochemical capacitor cathodes, electrolytic capacitor anodes and dielectric, and compatible electrolytes is strongly influenced by the nature of the electrolyte employed and the physical characteristics of the electrodes. Management of overall capacitor performance usually involves optimizi...