In this paper, simple circuital techniques to design efficient pulse triggered flip-flops are presented. The proposed approach aims at considerably alleviating the detrimental effects of current contention mechanisms, occurring at critical switching nodes of the circuits. In this way, both latency and power consumption of pulse triggered flip-flops are reduced. The proposed approach is assessed...

Two standard commercial flashlamp-pumped Nd:YAG (YAG denotes yttrium aluminum garnet) lasers have been upgraded to "pulse-burst" capability. Each laser produces a burst of up to 15 2 J Q-switched pulses (1064 nm) at repetition rates of 1-12.5 kHz. Variable pulse-width drive (0.15-0.39 ms) of the flashlamps is accomplished by insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) switching of electrolytic cap...

A soft-switched inverter is derived from the passively clamped quasi-resonant link circuit with three different clamps: coupled inductor, diode clamp and coupled inductor and capacitor. The proposed soft-switching inverter is formed from the traditional pulse-width modulated (PWM) inverter by simply augmenting with auxiliary resonant circuits, and the soft switching is achieved through applying...

We present experimental and numerical results of current-driven magnetization switching in magnetic tunnel junctions. The experiments show that, for MgObased magnetic tunnelling junctions, the tunnelling magnetoresistance ratio is as large as 155% and the intrinsic switching current density is as low as 1.1× 10 A cm. The thermal effect and current pulse width on spin-transfer magnetization swit...

Received October 2, 1992; revised manuscript received December 29, 1992 Separatrices and scaling laws in the switching dynamics of spatial solitary wave pixels are investigated. We show that the dynamics in the full model are similar to those in the plane-wave limit. Switching features may be indicated and explained by the motion of the (complex) solitary wave amplitude in the phase plane. We r...

Abstract The modulation of a voltage source inverter output causes losses and harmonic distortions on the load side DC-link capacitor due to discrete switching semiconductors. High-frequent pulses are digitally programmed control determine distortions. This paper presents an optimization in terms pulse- frequency-pattern selection for reducing while keeping minimal. In detail, fact that pulse f...

We demonstrate selective two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy with shaped pulses produced with a simple yet efficient scheme based on dispersive optical components. The pulse train from a broadband oscillator is split into two subtrains that are sent through different amounts of glass. Beam recombination results in pulse-shape switching at a rate of 150MHz. Time-resolved photon counting d...

Voltage source inverter (VSI) fed induction motors are widely used in variable speed applications. The harmonic distortion in the line currents of the inverter depends on the switching frequency and the pulse width modulation (PWM) technique employed to switch the inverter. The inverter switching loss is also strongly influenced by the PWM technique used. This paper compares the harmonic distor...

Voltage-driven 180° magnetization switching without electric current provides the possibility for revolutionizing the spintronics. We demonstrated the voltage-driven charge-mediated 180° magnetization switching at room temperature by combining firstprinciples calculations and temperature-dependent magnetization dynamics simulation. The electric field (E)-induced interface charge is found to all...

This paper presents a spiking neuron circuit with a triangular base signal. The circuit can output rich pulse-trains and the dynamics can be analyzed using a piecewise linear one-dimensional pulse-position map. Applying cross-switching to two neurons we construct a pulse-coupled system whose dynamics can be integrated into a composite map of the pulse position maps of two neurons. The composite...