In this paper we introduce a CMOS low voltage/low power (LV/LP) voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). It includes a simple V-I converter, a current controlled ring oscillator based on new differential delay cells, and a source-coupled differential pair to convert differential signal to single-ended signal. The V-I converter is implemented as a source follower type, exhibiting excellent linearity...

in this research, the surface stress effect on the nonlocal vibration of piezoelectric square plate reinforced by single walled carbon nanotubes (swcnts) based on classical plate theory (cpt) and first order shear deformation theory (fsdt) is presented. the elastic properties of piezoelectric nanocomposite plate are estimated by eshelby-mori-tanaka and the extended mixture rule approaches. the ...

Introduction: Recent research shows a high demand for highly linear operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) with an aim to reduce total harmonic distortion (THD) [1–4]. However, most of these linearisation techniques may present important drawbacks such as reduced effective transconductance and significant power consumption. On the other hand, low power supply and power consumption solut...

In this letter a useful CMOS fully-differential buffer topology is presented. The proposed solution, performing the common mode feedback (CMFB) operation, shows a rail-to-rail characteristic, so it is particularly suitable for low-voltage (± 0.75V) low-power (<400 μW) applications. The simulated results have shown excellent general performance, evaluated in terms of suitable figures of merit (F...

Previous studies indicated that stress and glucocorticoids have modulatory effects on acute pain. The aim of present study was to determine the interaction between stress and glucocorticoids with activation of voltage dependent Ca2+ channel on modulation of acute pain in mice. Male albino mice (25-30 g) were used for this experiment. Tail flick and hot plate were used for evaluation of analgesi...

Low-voltage (LV) and high-voltage (HV) DC distribution systems are being investigated as alternatives due to the growth of energy resources (DER), loads such solar wind power systems, storage sources (ESSs). Furthermore, an HV/LV system offers various advantages, including lower conversion losses, easier connecting strategy for DERs, less complex management techniques. As renewable increasingly...

This paper presents a novel interleaved converter (NIC) with extra-high voltage gain to process the power of low-voltage renewable-energy generators such as photovoltaic (PV) panel, wind turbine, and fuel cells. The NIC can boost a low input voltage to a much higher voltage level to inject renewable energy to DC bus for grid applications. Since the NIC has two circuit branches in parallel at fr...

In this paper, a three-phase AC-DC high step-up converter is developed for application to microscale wind-power generation systems. Such an AC-DC boost converter prossessess the property of the single-switch high step-up DC-DC structure. For power factor correction, the advanced half-stage converter is operated under the discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). Simulatanously, to achieve a high ste...

Multilevel inverters have been opted for high power applications due to reduced harmonic distortion, less device voltage stress and modular structure. This work proposes new modified hybrid Hbridge multilevel inverter using auxiliary switch. This proposed inverter produces five levels output with five power devices and clamping diodes as a phase voltage and nine levels as a line voltage.The lev...