Article history: Received 26 May 2015 Received in revised form 30 June 2015 Accepted 3 July 2015 Available online xxxx

This paper proposes an approach to reduce the short circuit current of CMOS off-chip drivers by individually controlling the input slew rates to the P and N channel transistors that drive the output pad. The slew rates are deliberately designed such that the N(P) transistor at the output stage will be turned off faster than the P(N) transistor is turned on for low-to-high (highto-low) output tr...

This work describesasteady state analysis of a building with a 6 kW photovoltaic system interconnected to the grid. Thebuilding is“Centro de Investigación de los Programas de Ingeniería – CIPI” at Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, in Bogotá, Colombia. The photovoltaic system is installed on the building’s roof and it has been operating properly since the month of January 2015. Steady st...

(1) Johnny played a silly prank and had a lot of tasty licorice. phenomenon of perspectival plurality has been shown to pose a serious problem for at least some versions of relativism about predicates of taste (the view that postulates a parameter for perspectives in the circumstances of evaluation with respect to which utterances of sentences are evaluated). Perspectival plurality is the pheno...

The problem of sizing gates for power-delay tradeo s is of great interest to designers. In this work, the theoretical basis for gate sizing under delay and power considerations is presented, and results on a practical implementation are presented. The dynamic power as well as the short-circuit power are modeled, using notions of delay and transition density, and the optimization problem is form...

In this paper, a thin-film InP-based solar cell designed and simulated. The proposed InP solar cell has a periodic array of plasmonic back-reflector, which consists of a silver layer and two silver nanowires. The indium tin oxide (ITO) layer also utilized as an anti-reflection coating (ARC) layer on top. The design creates a light-trapping structure by using a plasmonic back-reflector and an an...

Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) modules which can fail to short circuit mode have great of applications in electricity network related fields. Single IGBT samples have been constructed with the standard Al wire bonding, flexible printed circuit board (PCB) interconnect and sandwich structure technologies. The overcurrent failure modes of the constructed IGBT samples have been tested un...

Semiconductor nanowire photoelectrochemical cells have attracted extensive attention in the light-conversion field owing to the low-cost preparation, excellent optical absorption, and short distance of carrier collection. Although there are numbers of experimental investigations to improve the device performance, the understanding of the detailed process of photoelectric conversion needs to be ...

Overhead transmission line is an element of electrical power systems that are most frequently experienced short circuit faults compared to other power system elements. Short circuit faults on overhead transmission line cause a relatively large current and therefore can damage mechanically the electrical equipment connected to the system. The protection system is essentially needed in this situa...