Thermoelectric thin films have been widely explored for thermal-to-electrical energy conversion or solid-state cooling, because they can remove heat from integrated circuit (IC) chips or micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) devices without involving any moving mechanical parts. In this paper, we report using silicon diode-based temperature sensors and specific thermoelectric devices to charac...

A room-temperature Schottky diode-based WM-86 (WR-0.34) harmonic mixer was developed to build high-resolution spectrometers, and multipixel receivers in the terahertz (THz) region for applications such as radio astronomy, plasma diagnostics, and remote sensing. The mixer consists of a quartz-based local oscillator (LO), intermediate-frequency (IF) circuits, and a GaAs-based beam-lead THz circui...

In all multilevel topology with several DC link, the voltage balancing problem of DC capacitors is a key problem. This paper proposes a new topology of chopper circuit for dc capacitor voltage balancing in diode clamped multilevel inverters (DCMLI). In the presented topology the number of switches is reduced respect to other proposed topology in literatures. Suggested topology is modular and ha...

We propose a CMOS circuit that can be used as an equivalent of resistors. This circuit uses a differential pair consisting of diode-connected MOSFETs and operates as a high-resistance resistor when driven in the subthreshold region. Its resistance can be controlled in a range of 1-1000 M by adjusting the driving current for the circuit. The results of the fabrication and measurement of the circ...

The most commonly used model of solar cells is the single-diode model, with five unknown parameters. First, this paper proposes three variants which imply voltage dependence series resistance, parallel and both resistors. Second, analytical relationships between current expressed were derived using Lambert W function for each proposed model. Third, presents a hybrid algorithm, Chaotic Snake Opt...

Design and construction of a stable current supply with protection circuits are described. The reported circuit provides a high-stable and high-level current variable from 0.5-1.2 A with the protect ion circuits to prevent over load current, voltage and off-range temperature operation. A detailed analysis of the circuit parameters is given and the time behaviors of the load voltage/current and ...

AC-DC single-stage converters are attractive because of their simplicity. The conventional power electronics converters used for such application have two stages, a diode bridge rectifier at the front end followed by a dc-dc boost converter. However, the extremely low output voltage of electromagnetic microgenerator does not allow diode bridge rectification. Even if possible, the losses in the ...

In this paper, we propose a novel amorphous In-Ga-Zn-oxide (a-IGZO) thin film transistor (TFT) pixel circuit for pulse width modulation (PWM) driving active matrix micro light-emitting diode (μLED) displays. The proposed compensates wavelength shifts according to gray level and threshold voltage (VTH) variation of TFTs with only two capacitors. This compact operation can be achieved by simultan...

Many popular models for photovoltaic system performance employ a single diode model to compute the I-V curve for a module or string of modules at given irradiance and temperature conditions. A single diode model requires a number of parameters to be estimated from measured I-V curves. Many available parameter estimation methods use only short circuit, open circuit and maximum power points for a...