This study proposes a method for manufacturing high-performance electrode materials in which controlling the shape of the current collector and electrode material for a Li-ion capacitor (LIC). In particular, the proposed LIC manufacturing method maintains the high voltage of a cell by using a microdome-patterned electrode material, allowing for reversible reactions between the Li-ion and the ac...

This research proposes a discrete cosine transform (DCT) based approach for automated inspection of small surface defects on capacitor chips. A spatial domain image is transformed into the DCT frequency domain. From the energy concentration analysis of the DCT domain, we can disassembly the frequency matrix into four disassembled matrices. We select the proper number of larger frequency values ...

In a two-wire (no chassis ground) input offline power supply system, a filter capacitor Cz is often connected between the primary side and the secondary side of the transformer for common-mode electromagnetic interference reduction. For threewire offline power supplies, such a capacitor is also sometimes used for the same purpose. It is unclear how this filter capacitor works. In this paper, an...

This paper proposes a capacitance estimation method of the dc-link capacitor for brushless DC motor (BLDCM) drive systems. In order to estimate the dc-link capacitance, the BLDCM is operated in quadrant-II or -IV among four-quadrant operation. Quadrant-II and -IV are called reverse braking and forward braking, respectively. During the braking operation of the BLDCM, the capacitor is charged by ...

A boost Power Factor Correction (PFC) front end converter followed by a circulating current for the soft switching flows only through the auxiliary circuit and a In recent years, dc power supplies have been widely used in industrial Lr is delivered to the capacitor C1 via transformer T. iLr (t) decreases linearly. I believe that I understand how a starting capacitor is used with an induction mo...

High density three-dimensional AZO/Al2O3/AZO nanocapacitor arrays have been fabricated for energy storage applications. Using atomic layer deposition technique, the stack of AZO/Al2O3/AZO has been grown in the porous anodic alumina template which is directly formed on the Si substrate. The fabricated capacitor shows a high capacitance density of 15.3 fF/μm2 at 100 kHz, which is nearly 2.5 times...

AbstructThis paper describes the design of a CMOS capacitor-ratio-independent and gain-insensitive algorithmic analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. Using the fully differential switched-capacitor technique, the A/D converter is insensitive to capacitor-ratio accuracy as well as finite gain and offset voltage of operational amplifiers. The switch-induced error voltage becomes the only major error ...

We present the design and analysis of a MEMS variable capacitor coupled to thermal actuators. The variable capacitor is composed by two main components: 1) the capacitor built by two squared plates, which one plate is mechanically fixed to the substrate and the other is a moving plate having mechanical suspensions (springs) connected from each corner of it to the substrate, and 2) a set of ther...

In this paper induction heating system is modeled and effective factors on induction heater system losses are represented. Respective to the intensive importance of capacitor losses and its potential ability of being harmful, furnace parameters must be designed in a way to minimize capacitor losses and maximize the transmitted power into the load. The effective parameters are the number of turn...

We studied the possibility that an air capacitor can be used as a humidity sensor by measuring capacitance change. In order to investigate the possibility, the change of capacitance of an air capacitor due to moisture in air was first considered theoretically, and was then experimentally verified. The capacitance was measured by an LCR impedance meter with a 100-kHz and 1-V ac. The results reve...