─ This paper presents a voltage doubler in to a half bridge converter is derived for electric vehicle battery chargers. The proposed converter provides wide ZVS range, reduced circulating current and also voltage stress. Circulating current during the freewheeling phases of phase shift full bridge circuit are reset by the sum of LLC circuit output voltage and resonant capacitor voltage by achie...

We have fabricated a Cooper-pair transistor (CPT) with parameters such that for appropriate voltage biases, it behaves essentially like a single Cooper-pair box (SCB). The effective capacitance of a SCB can be defined as the derivative of the induced charge with respect to gate voltage and has two parts, the geometric capacitance, C(geom), and the quantum capacitance C(Q). The latter is due to ...

AbstructA novel soft-switched inverter topology is derived from the passively clamped quasi-resonant link (PCQRL) circuit. By introducing magnetic coupling between the two resonant inductors, the number of auxiliary switches can be reduced from two to one, and only a single magnetic core is required for the resonant dc link. An analysis of this novel PCQRL topology with coupled inductors is pre...

For information on CPI products visit our webpage at www.cpii.com/bmd, or contact: CPI Beverly Microwave Division, Telephone: +1 (978) 922-6000 • FAX: +1 (978) 922-8914 • Email: [email protected] Rev. 7/16 A magnetron is a high power microwave oscillator in which the potential energy of an electron cloud near the cathode is converted into r.f. energy in a series of cavity resonators similar...

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is commonly used to transmit power from a transmitting coil to various movable power devices. In the WPT system, due to a resonant tank inherent characteristic, the system cannot achieve a high output voltage gain. This paper proposes a novel current-fed push–pull circuit to realize high output voltage gain by adding a bi-directional switch between the resonant net...

This document describes several aspects relating to the design of dc-dc converters operating at frequencies in the VHF range (30-300 MHz). Design considerations are treated in the context of a dc-dc converter operating at a switching frequency of 100 MHz. Gate drive, rectifier and control designs are explored in detail, and experimental measurements of the complete converter are presented that ...

A 10-MVA-scale resonant oscillator, powered by a pulse-forming network and switched with a pair of commutating mercury ignitrons, was developed for the MST reversed-field pinch plasma-confinement experiment. A novel feature of this circuit is its commutation mechanism, wherein each turning on of one ignitron causes a reverse voltage transient that turns off the other. Two of these oscillators a...

Minimization of power loss in the tuning circuits of frequency-tunable small resonant antennas, such as microstrip patches, is studied. First, the frequency shift and the associated power loss in certain tuning circuits are theoretically calculated based on approximate circuit models of fairly narrow-band resonant antennas. By investigating the ratio of frequency shift and loss, an optimal conf...