Leg capacitor energy balancing control is one of the crucial issues for stable operation a cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converter. Because this topology inherently consists numerous submodule cells with DC capacitors, cell voltages and leg instantaneously fluctuate depending on sequence CHB In general, wye-connected CHB-converter-based static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) utilizes zero-sequence ...

The failure of electrolytic capacitors is the cause of most breakdowns of static converters. The function of these capacitors is to filter and to store electrical energy. Accelerated aging tests showed that the increase of the internal resistance ESR of the capacitors is a good indicator of their faulty state. The filter function is affected by the capacitors wearout on the one hand. At high fr...

The influence of 6 MeV electron irradiation on the electrical properties of Al/Al2O3/n-Si metal–oxide– semiconductor (MOS) capacitors has been investigated. Using rf magnetron sputtering deposition technique, Al/Al2O3/n-Si MOS capacitors were fabricated and such twelve capacitors were divided into four groups. The first group of MOS capacitors was not irradiated with 6 MeV electrons and treated...

Power distribution system noise affects computer product timing performance, signal integrity and electromagnetic interference. Between 1 MHz and 1 GHz, the primary means of reducing power distribution noise is with ceramic decoupling capacitors. To achieve a certain target impedance, it is important to characterize the ESR of ceramic decoupling capacitors as they directly determine the number ...

©ALLVIA, Inc. 2011 Sunnyvale, CA www.allvia.com Page 1 Interposers between ICs and package substrates that contain thin film capacitors have been used previously in order to improve circuit performance. However, with the interconnect inductance due to wire bonds being high, the benefits of thin film capacitors have not been fully realized. Replacing the wire bonds with Through Silicon Vias (TSV...

Recently, worldwide, the controlled switch became a technical solution for reducing the switching stress. After 90es, the number of equipment which uses the controlled switch fast increased, mainly due to the achieved performances. The controlled switching can be applied to any type of commutations. Now there are dedicated controllers which are used more often for the switching of the transport...

This paper proposes a novel method based on pulse width modulation techniques toreduce and control the common-mode voltage in three-phase multilevel inverters. Besides controllingthe common-mode voltage, this method is capable of controlling capacitors voltages and load currentswith low switching losses and harmonic contents. In fact, due to the existence of different pulsepatterns and the poss...

BACKGROUND Biphasic waveforms have been reported to be more efficacious than monophasic waveforms for external defibrillation. This study examined the optimal phase-1 tilts and phase-2 leading-edge voltages with small capacitors (60 and 20 microF) for external defibrillation. We also assessed the ability of the "charge-burping" model to predict the optimal waveforms. METHODS AND RESULTS Two g...

A low-noise, 2.5V reference is constructed by stacking four 2.5V reference ICs in series. The resulting 10V output is divided back to 2.5V, and a low-noise unity-gain buffer added. This stacked-reference design reduces noise because the noise from each IC, being random and uncorrelated, partially cancels each other out. The low-frequency 1/f noise (LF noise) generated by a voltage reference at ...

The emerging switched-capacitor-based multilevel inverters offer interesting merits such as self-balancing of capacitor voltages and boosting voltage gain. While the switched capacitors (SCs) in these topologies are charged parallel with dc source, severe current spikes issue is inevitable, rendering them impractical at high power. This article proposes a novel T-type inverter that mitigates by...