In recent years, the rapid increase in the market for hybrid electric vehicles has generated great demand for lowcost, high-volume, high-temperature power converters that can work in harsh environment (temperature ≥ 150°C) conditions. Most of the commercially available power semiconductor devices and associated control electronics are rated for maximum of 85°C ambient temperature. Under this ci...

The dynamical properties of dispersive optical bistability in a semiconductor laser biased from below to above threshold are investigated both experimentally and theoretically. The optical bistability switch-off time is found to decrease continuously from below to above threshold. A fast switch-off in less than 100 ps has been observed when the laser operates in the injection-locked condition.

Due to the lower tensile low-distortion overall output voltage with power switch stress, multilevel inverter (MLI) is popular. MLI does however have several semiconductor switches and therefore increases complexity of switches. New symmetric asymmetric structures are proposed in this report. According experts, require less controlled switches, diodes, condensers than both conventional recently ...

Due to the exponentially increasing connectivity and bandwidth demand from the Internet, the most advanced examples of medium-scale fast reconfigurable photonic integrated switch circuits are offered by research carried out for dataand computer-communication applications, where network flexibility at a high speed and high connectivity are provided to suit network demand. Recently we have protot...

This paper introduces a new soft switching boost converter with passive snubber. In the proposed converter, the main switch turns on under zero current switching (ZCS) and turns off under zero voltage switching (ZVS) without any additional voltage or current stresses. The main diode turns on under ZVS and turns off under ZCS. The proposed converter has features as low cost, simple control, low ...

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) is an unwanted effect between two electrical systems as a result of either electromagnetic radiation or electromagnetic conduction. EMI is the major adverse effect caused by the application of switch-mode power supplies (SMPS). In switching power supplies, EMI noise is unavoidable due to the switching actions of the semiconductor devices and resulting disconti...

Identification of fault current during the operation of a power semiconductor switch and activation of suitable remedial actions are important for reliable operation of power converters. A short circuit is a basic and severe fault situation in a circuit structure, such as voltage-source converters. This paper presents a new active protection circuit for fast and precise clamping and safe shutdo...

A new family of single-switch three-phase highpower-factor rectifiers, which have continuous input and output currents, is introduced. By using a multiresonant scheme, the transistor operates with zero-current switching (ZCS), and the diodes operate with zero-voltage switching (ZVS). These multiresonant rectifiers with a single transistor are capable of drawing a higher quality input-current wa...

We investigate the performance of a hybrid Q-switched (HQS) fiber laser that is constructed with a low RF-power driven acousto-optic (AO) Q-switch and an AlGaInAs semiconductor saturable absorber. Compared to a pure passively Q-switched (PQS) fiber laser, the ratio of timing jitter to pulse period can be significantly reduced from 2% to 0.3% in the regime of far above threshold. On the other ha...