Dielectric Elastomer Generators (DEGs) are an emerging technology for the conversion of mechanical into electrical energy. Despite many advantageous characteristics, there are still issues to overcome, including the need for charging at every cycle to produce an electrical output. Self-priming Circuits (SPCs) are one possible solution, storing part of the electric energy output of one cycle to ...

Using logarithm is always a good strategy for representing a high dynamic range signal. However, despite the potentially huge market for any high dynamic range camera, the conventional logarithmic approach using a MOSFET operating in subthreshold mode suffers from low sensitivity especially at low light levels. In this work, a novel high dynamic range pixel with logarithmic response is proposed...

This paper describes the design of a high-speed CMOS sampleand-hold (S/H) circuit for pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). This S/H circuit consists of a switched-capacitor (SC) amplifier and a comparator to generate the mixed-mode sampled output data, which are represented both in analog and digital forms. The mixed-mode sampling technique reduces the operational amplifier (op amp) o...

A new design on the electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection scheme for CMOS IC operating in power-down-mode condition is proposed. By adding a VDD_ESD bus line and diodes, the new proposed ESD protection scheme can block the leakage current from I/O pin to VDD power line to avoid malfunction during power-down-mode operating condition. During normal circuit operating condition, the new proposed...

The amplifier described in this note is intended to interface an existing preamplifier chip under development by D. Dorfan and N. Spencer at UCSC with a conventional ADC module. The preamp chip provides differential-voltage-mode outputs capable of driving 50-Ω loads. However, the differential channels are made up of emitter-followers with approximately 4Vbe of voltage difference under zero sign...

multilevel inverters has big placement advantages in power electronics and its application can be mentioned to facts tools such as upfc – d-statcom. therefore, nowadays multilevel inverters have created vast field’s research and researchers are trying to present appropriate structures with fewer keys and greater advantages. the main advantages of multilevel inverters mentioned are low-key volta...

This article proposed a novel topology of dynamic voltage regulator using transformer and PWM multi-level AC/AC converter. In this paper for finding the best value of duty ratio for switches to minimize the THD, the GA algorithm has been used and THD output voltage is assumed to be fitness function. The proposed voltage regulator employs multi-level AC/AC converter to generate compensation volt...

Low-voltage low-power comparators implemented in standard digital processes are of increasing importance in different integrated applications. In this paper a 1-V fully-differential lowpower MOSFET-only comparator with rail-to-rail input swing is presented which can be suitably used in very low-voltage lowpower pipelined A/D converters. This comparator utilizes a resistive divider configuration...

Oxide semiconductors are regarded as promising materials for large-area and/or flexible electronics. In this work, a ring oscillator based on n-type indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) and p-type tin monoxide (SnO) is presented. The IGZO thin-film transistor (TFT) shows a linear mobility of 11.9 cm²/(V∙s) and a threshold voltage of 12.2 V. The SnO TFT exhibits a mobility of 0.51 cm²/(V∙s) and a th...