An RF low phase noise voltage-controlled oscillator is implemented with micromachined IC-compatible variable capacitors and three-dimensional coil inductor. Unlike conventional on-chip passive devices, the micromachined variable capacitors achieve a high-Q value above 60 at 1 GHz with a 15% tuning range for a nominal 2 pF capacitance with 3 V tuning voltage. Three-dimensional inductors minimize...

The electronic domain is highly nonlinear, hence it is valuable to study the nonlinear effect particularly the chaos and bifurcation. The present paper deals with the simulative analysis of nonlinear dynamics in the boost converter with the help of bifurcation diagrams. In this brief communication, the current through inductor (IL) was considered as state variable and reference current (IREF) w...

frequency to retain the triangular shape of the inductor current. It will be assumed in the following, therefore, that.the output signal of amplifier A, includes a remnant of the inductor current triangular waveform (except for possible curvature of the corners) multiplied by a constant (kJ. In CM realisation (Fig. 2), the output of the error amplifier V;, modified by a 'compensation slope' Mc ...

A novel modified space vector pulse width modulation (MSVPWM) strategy for Z-Source inverter is presented. By rearranging the position of shoot-through states, the frequency of inductor current ripple is kept constant. Compared with existing MSVPWM strategies, the proposed approach can reduce the maximum inductor current ripple. So the volume of Z-source network inductor can be designed smaller...

This paper presents a new circuit topology designed to minimise the weight of the control circuit required to actuate multiple piezoelectric actuators. It can independently set the phase and bias voltage on each piezoelectric actuator through the use of a single inductor. This is highly desirable in weight constrained applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles as the ferroelectric material r...

This paper proposes an ultra compact LC-VCO. Due to the speed-up of CMOS digital circuits, jitter of ring oscillators is becoming a critical problem. Even though an LC-VCO has a better phase noise, a layout size of on-chip inductor is a problem as a clock generator. Thus, the proposed LC-VCO consists of a very compact stacked-spiral inductor and active components placed are beneath the inductor...

Single wire experiments were performed on a low current pulse generator at Cornell University. A 220 nF capacitor charged to 15–25 kV was used to drive single wire experiments. The capacitor and wire holder were connected in series through an external variable inductor to control the current rise rate. This external series inductance was adjustable from 0.2 to 2 mH. When coupled with the range ...

In this paper, an lateral diffused metal–oxide– semiconductor-based very high-frequency class-E power amplifier has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. Simulations were verified by amplifier measurements and a record-high class-E output power was obtained at 144 MHz, whic is in excellent agreement with simulations. The key of the results is the use of efficient device models, si...

Abstract: In many power factor correction applications, the power level can reach maximum value and sometimes the input voltage also will be too high. For high power and high voltage applications the inductor volume and weight is the major concern of the conventional boost converter. In this paper the two inductor boost converter is adopted which uses smaller inductors yielding high power densi...

DC DC converters are widely used in a variety of applications. It is mostly used in tracking maximum power point of PV array. The tapped inductor is a feasible method to extend the voltage conversion ratio. In this paper, the effect of tapped inductor in a boost converter is discussed. This paper provides a detailed design and analysis of a tapped inductor boost converter. The performance of th...