The main difference in topology of a boost bridgeamplifier and state-of-the-art class-D amplifier is in theconnection of a loudspeaker between a power supply and aswitching bridge. The boost bridge amplifier provides fourtimes higher peak power at the loudspeaker than the power,which can be achieved by a class-D amplifier from the samepower supply. Total harmonic distort...

strict new safety rules announced after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but in most cases won't be subjected to new environmental reviews. The announcement means that some drilling could resume within weeks, although the exact timing remains unclear. But the policy doesn't affect the more than a dozen permit requests that were pending when the moratorium took effect or have been filed since. Th...

Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, pledged more than $160 million from his charitable foundation to help develop vaccines for malaria as part of a package of funds totalling $3 billion revealed at a meeting at the UN to assess progress in the Millennium Development Goals to halve global poverty by 2015. Gates said that his funds would be for the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), in conjunction...

one of the main problems in wind energy conversion system (wecs) is how to achieve maxim­u­m output power in different wind speeds. maximum methods for maximum power point tracking in wind energy conversion syst­e­ms require the knowledge of system characteristics and mechanic sensors. so, using these methods practically will follow with high price and an abundant difficulties. in this paper, n...

in this paper, a new topology for boost z-source inverterbased on switched-inductor cell is proposed. the operating modes of the proposed inverter are analyzed and also a suitable control method to generate the trigger signals of the inverter is presented. having a common earth between the input source and inverter and capability to generate a higher voltage gain by using lower amounts of the d...

In this paper, a boost converter with a clamp circuit is proposed for high intensity discharge (HID) lamp application. The clamp circuit provides zero voltage turn on for both main and clamp switches. Compared to conventional boost converters, the proposed converter has the following advantages: (i) high voltage gain without suffering from extreme duty ratio, (ii) low stress on the switches and...

The DC transfer functions for the buck, boost, and Cuk PWM DC-DC converters in continuous conductionmodearell, l / ( l D ) , and-D/( l -D) respectively, ,where D is the duty cycle. Therefore. it is reasonable to expect that the Cuk PWh4 DC-DC converter circuit [l] can be synthesized by cascading boost and buck converter circuits. The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic and rigorous...