Resonant converters are one of the most exciting power supply topologies. These converters are popular for many applications because the performance increases power efficiency, minimizes components count, and reduces Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) over older power supply topologies. Soft switching is the representative feature of resonant converters. [1][2] However, use of the body diode in...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic single-incision surgery is fraught with significant technical drawbacks but has witnessed increased growth mainly for its presumed aesthetic advantages. Recently, a single-site robotic platform has been introduced to alleviate some of the technical challenges with laparoscopic single-site surgery, although literature on this topic is scant. The aim of this study is to an...

We describe new planar multiport devices written by spatial solitons that are composed of several nonlinearly coupled components in Kerr-type media. Such devices have no radiation losses at a given wavelength. We demonstrate that, for the same relative angle between the input soliton-induced channels, one can vary the transmission coefficients into the output channels by adjusting the polarizat...

Single-stage AC-DC converters integrate an AC-DC front-end converter with a DC-DC backend converter. Compared with conventional two-stage AC-DC converters, single-stage ACDC converters use less components and only one controller, which is used to regulate the output voltage. As a result, the cost, size and complexity of AC-DC converters can be reduced, but single-stage converters do not perform...

Abstract Multiport interferometers based on integrated beamsplitter meshes have recently captured interest as a platform for many emerging technologies. In this paper, we present novel architecture multiport the sine–cosine fractal decomposition of unitary matrix. Our is unique in that it self-similar, enabling construction modular multi-chiplet devices. Due to modularity, our design enjoys imp...

Over the past two decades plenty of resonant and quasi-resonant converters have been developed and proposed as an answer to the difficulties raised by square-wave converters, especially those related to their parasitic elements. The basic idea is to put these parasitics in use. The core of both classes of converters is a tank circuit. Unlike resonant converters, where it takes part actively in ...

This paper describes the concepts of Deltasigma converters and their increasing use with the development of fine line digital integrated circuit technology. Conventional Nyquist converters require analog components that are highly immune to interference and noise. On the other hand Delta sigma converters can be implemented by using simple and high-tolerance analog components. Sampling at high f...

-This paper is describing the recently introduced proportional-resonant (PR) controllers and their suitability for grid-connected converters current control. It is shown that the known shortcomings associated with PI controllers like steady-state error for single-phase converters and the need of decoupling for three-phase converters can be alleviated. Additionally, selective harmonic compensati...