The rectifier has important influence on a DC/DC converter’s characteristics including the efficiency, the output voltage ripple and the dynamic behavior. By analyzing the difference between the center trapped rectifier and the double current rectifier, this document explains and demonstrates the advantage of the current doubler rectifier for DC/DC converters with especially high power but low ...

Guidelines for distributing a buck converter rectifier for application to three-dimensional (3-D) circuits is described. The 3-D rectifier exploits the properties of transmission lines to generate and distribute power supplies to different planes. As compared to a conventional rectifier, the proposed rectifier circuit only requires moderately size capacitors without the use of onchip inductors....

Single, double, and triple mutations progressively shift Shaker activation to more hyperpolarized potentials, resulting in an increase in the fraction of inactivated channels at negative resting voltages. The most negatively shifted mutation, the triple mutant, behaves like an inward rectifier. What is usually considered activation of an inward rectifier is, for the triple mutant, recovery from...

Power quality problems caused by significant increase of non-linear loads initiated intensive research in high power factor converters. Most of the modern power electronic systems like variable speed drives, DC power supplies and battery charging systems uses uncontrolled diode bridge rectifier. The uncontrolled rectifier system injects lot of harmonics in to the AC supply system there by reduc...

Considerable interest has recently focused on the weaver mutation, which causes inward rectifier channel alterations leading to profound impairment of neuronal differentiation and to severe motor dysfunction in mice (Hess, 1996). The principal targets of mutation are cerebellar granule cells, most of which fail to differentiate and degenerate in a premigratory position (Rakic and Sidman, 1973a,...

In this paper, we introduce transformations of deep rectifier networks, enabling the conversion of deep rectifier networks into shallow rectifier networks. We subsequently prove that any rectifier net of any depth can be represented by a maximum of a number of functions that can be realized by a shallow network with a single hidden layer. The transformations of both deep rectifier nets and deep...

This paper presents a high-efficiency inductorless self-controlled rectifier for piezoelectric energy harvesting. High efficiency is achieved by discharging the piezoelectric device (PD) capacitance each time the current produced by the PD changes polarity. This is achieved automatically without the use of delay lines, thereby making the proposed circuit compatible with any type of PD. In addit...

The problem addressed in this paper is how to restore the power taken by the current injection network in the case of optimal injection of third harmonic, in a simple way, providing self-adjustment of the rectifier to the load current variations. Goals of the presented research are to use only one current sensor, and to improve third harmonic injection technique. A new rectifier topology is pro...

A new precision full-wave rectifier employing only two differential difference current conveyors, which is very suitable for CMOS technology implementation, is presented. The proposed rectifier is the voltage-mode circuit, which offers high-input and low-output impedance hence it can be directly connected to load without using any buffer circuits. PSPICE is used to verify the circuit performanc...