Energy harvesting is the process of foraging electrical energy from energy sources available in the environment. This paper reviews energy harvesting technology using PZT as the specific piezoceramic material with its modules to determine the capacitance for optimal energy-storage in piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting (VEH) systems . It reviews various applications of piezoelectric energ...

The theory of electromagnetic shielding is based on the waves equations describing the behavior of electromagnetic field in material. The proposed approach consist in a PSpice model using transmission line model to simulate the attenuation introduced by a material characterized by the macroscopic parameters ε, μ, σ. To verify the data obtained through PSpice simulation, a wave-guide-based measu...

©2011 IEEE Plotting the individual components is shown in Fig. 11. Adding the pulses gives the solution for V 10, t 2 shown in Fig. 12. All of the results of the above examples were validated using the PSPICE circuit analysis computer program. Use of the exact lossless transmission line model in PSPICE for more complicated lossless transmission-line problems is highly recommended [1]. VI. Refer...

The proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell is being investigated as an alternate power source for various applications like transportation and emergency power supplies. The paper presents a novel circuit model for a PEM fuel cell that can be used to design and analyze fuel cell power systems. The PSPICE-based model uses bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and LC elements available in the PSPI...

A behavioral model in PSpice for a silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFET rated at 1200V / 33A for a wide temperature range is developed by extracting the device parameters from the data sheet. The static and dynamic behavior of the SiC power MOSFET is simulated and compared with the device characteristics to validate the accuracy of the PSpice model. The temperature dependent behavior of the MOSFE...

Piezoelectric transducer (SAW devices) is a very important device in industry but it is very difficult to simulate it using any circuit-simulation program. This paper proposes a practical method to simulate the Mason’s model of piezoelectric transducer directly with no approximation for different values of the model’s components using PSPICE. The paper also improves the simulated circuit compon...

A low-voltage high-linearity wideband current differencing transconductance amplifier (CDTA) is presented in this paper. The CDTA consists of a current differencing circuit and a cross-coupling transconductance circuit. The PSPICE simulations of the proposed CDTA show a good performance: -3dB frequency bandwidth is about 900 MHz, low power consumption is 2.48 mW, input current linear range is ±...

In this paper the current mode approach called “Current Conveyor (CCII+)” has been incorporated to design and simulate the circuit for producing two amplitude matched anti-phase sine waveforms which are frequently used in various communication and instrumentation systems. PSpice simulation has been used to depict the output waveforms. The power supply used is ±2.5 V which can be easily incorpor...