Power-on failure has been the prevalent failure mechanism for solid tantalum capacitors in decoupling applications. A surge step stress test (SSST) has been previously applied to identify the critical stress level of a capacitor batch to give some predictability to the power-on failure mechanism [1]. But SSST can also be viewed as an electrically destructive test under a time-varying stress (vo...

A simple and efficient method for improving the linearity of a two capacitor charge redistribution digital to analog converter (DAC) is presented. This method utilizes consecutive interchanging of the voltages on the capacitors for each bit being converted. It is shown that the accuracy achieved by the proposed algorithm is orders of magnitude higher compared to this of the conventional method....

High speed Full-Adder (FA) module is a critical element in designing high performance arithmetic circuits. In this paper, we propose a new high speed multiple-valued logic FA module. The proposed FA is constructed by 14 transistors and 3 capacitors, using carbon nano-tube field effect transistor (CNFET) technology. Furthermore, our proposed technique has been examined in different voltages (i.e...

Multilevel inverters are able to provide loads with voltages of high power quality using several DC sources, capacitors, switches, and diodes in their structures. However, the usage higher number semiconductor devices (switches diodes) capacitors causes an increase losses costs decreases efficiency. Thus, lowering switches is a challenging issue designing multilevel inverter. In this paper, asy...

harmonics have become an important issue in modern power systems. the widespread penetration of non-linear loads to emerging power systems has turned power quality analysis into an important operation issue under both steady state and transient conditions. this paper employs an extended harmonic domain (ehd) based framework for dynamic analysis of long term analysis over voltages during the tra...

This paper shows how “multiple resonance networks” of any order an with several structures can be systematically designed using standard passive filter design techniques. These networks are composed of capacitors, inductors, transformers, and a switch, and have the property of transferring completely energy initially put in one capacitor, insulated by the switch, to another capacitor in the cir...

Abstract A new switching-capacitor-based boosting multilevel inverter is described in this paper. nine-level voltage waveform produced using 10 switches, one-diode, and two-capacitors. Each fundamental cycle contains numerous occurrences of capacitor voltages being linked parallel with the source voltage, resulting self-balancing voltages. Proposed topology has built polarity changing ability s...

Leading edge designs for portable electronic devices require capacitors which deliver volumetric efficiency, high reliability, low cost, reduced propensity for ignition, and low Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR). Tantalum capacitors employing a conductive polymer cathode are uniquely capable of providing all of these critical characteristics. Tantalum capacitors have a long track record for un...

Simultaneous switching noise (SSN) is a major cause of power integrity (PI) degradation that causes circuits to become unstable and experience errors. As modern ICs operate at higher speeds with higher density and lower voltages, SSN has become a serious issue that must be addressed to ensure system stability during the short riseand fall-times of the logic transient states. Most traditional de...

The dielectric constants of nylon fabrics saturated with aqueous NaCl solutions, Fabric-Superdielectric Materials (F-SDM), were measured to be >10⁵ even at the shortest discharge times (>0.001 s) for which reliable data could be obtained using the constant current method, thus demonstrating the existence of a third class of SDM. Hence, the present results support the general theoretical SDM hyp...