An accurate model named as the Modified Wolff Model (MWM) is presented as an efficient CAD tool for determination of resonant frequency of the dominant and higher order modes under the multi-layer condition in thin and thick circular microstrip patch antennas. The effects of dielectric cover on the resonant frequency obtained from MWM have been compared against the result of theoretical method ...

An electrolytic capacitors used as a decoupling reservoir which restrict the lifetime of photovoltaic (PV) micro inverters. This has led to the development of several improved decoupling circuits that can reduce the capacitor value to allow the use of non electrolytic types. The project focus on selection of the minimum decoupling capacitor value for the proper operation of discontinuous conduc...

In this paper, the stability of parallel-operated inverters in the sense of boundedness is investigated. At first, the non-linear model of parallelled inverters with a generic linear or non-linear load is obtained by using the generalised dissipative Hamiltonian structure and then the robust droop controller, recently proposed in the literature for parallel operation of inverters, is implemente...

Cascade Multilevel Inverters are very popular and have many applications in electric utility and for industrial drives. When these inverters are used for industrial drive directly, the THD contents in output voltage of inverters is very significant index as the performance of drive depends very much on the quality of voltage applied to drive. In this article, the THD contents of 7, 11 and 15 le...

Abstract Simulations of complex-valued Hopfield networks based on spin-torque oscillators can recover phase-encoded images. Sequences memristor-augmented inverters provide tunable delay elements that implement complex weights by phase shifting the oscillatory output oscillators. Pseudo-inverse training suffices to store at least 12 images in a set 192 oscillators, representing 16 × pixel The en...

Cascaded multilevel inverter (CMI) topology is prevalent in many applications. However, the CMI requires switches and isolated dc sources, which main drawback of this type inverter. As a result, volume, cost complexity are increased efficiency deteriorated. This paper thus proposes switched-capacitor-based with half-bridge cells only one source. Compared to conventional CMI, proposed uses almos...

The concept of multilevel inverters introduced about 20 years ago entails performing power conversion in multiple voltage steps to obtain improved power quality, lower switching losses, better electromagnetic compatibility, and higher voltage capability. The benefits are especially clear for medium-voltage drives in industrial applications and are being considered for future naval ship propulsi...

Smart inverters are studied in both the dynamic/transient and steady state in a simulation environment. Using EPRI OpenDSS, five real California feeders are simulated over a 95 day period while the PV penetration and smart inverter fraction are varied. From the simulations, it is shown that smart inverters operating under different Volt/VAr based control schemes improve feeder conditions. The i...

This paper presents the simulation of 3, 5, 7level inverters. The realization of these three different levels is done by cascading one, two, three H-bridges in series respectively in MATLAB. The use of simple control strategy which is applied for switching the switches at appropriate conducting angles with proper delays is presented in this paper. The reduction in harmonics is done with the hel...

The need for high power apparatus in industry has increased in recent years. Multilevel inverters have developed as easy alternatives for such power requirements. Multilevel inverters consist of a group of semiconductor switches and a set of voltage source components like capacitors or independent sources. The basic concept of these inverters depends on using this series of switches and sources...