ISSN 2250 – 1088 | © 2011 Bonfring Abstract--This paper is a detailed study on methods of battery charging with Buck Resonant converter using soft switching techniques like ZVS and ZCS. This study also presents the circuit configuration with the least components to realize a highly efficient solar energy battery charger with a zero-voltage and zero current switching resonant converter. The high...

This paper reports a novel technique enabling to tune the resonant frequency of linear inertial piezoelectric energy harvesters through the control strategy of the associated electronic interface circuit. When associated with piezoelectric devices exhibiting high electromechanical coupling, it is expected to enable the variation of the resonant frequency in large proportions.

Dynamic power dissipation is an important aspect of resonant tunneling device circuit design, especially if clock frequencies beyond 1 GHz are intended. In this paper we investigate the different sources of power dissipation of a dynamic resonant tunneling device logic family. Due to the self-latching behavior of the gates and the bitlevel pipelined circuit style an adiabatic clocking scheme is...

This paper presents an alternate quasi-resonant dc link (QRDCL) circuit for soft switched inverters which does not require paralleling of a charged capacitor with another charged capacitor or a voltage source. The circuit momentarily pulls down the DC link voltage to zero as commandled by the control circuit to facilitate zero voltage switching (ZVS) of inverter devices. Operation of this circu...

A wireless passive sensor array based on inductive-capacitive (LC) resonant circuits capable of simultaneously tracking two points of force loading is described. The sensor consisted of a planar spiral inductor connected to two capacitors forming a resonant circuit with two resonant frequencies. When a load was applied to one or both of the parallel plate capacitors, the distance between the pl...

The development of energy harvesting devices with piezoelectric transducers has been widely studied in the last decade. Most of previous studies considered a resonant cantilever beam with an attached tip mass and focused on the proper modeling of the cantilever device, design and optimization of electric harvesting circuit and nonlinear amplification of resonant vibration amplitude. However, fe...

This paper presents the development of a resonant DC link inverter for an electric vehicle application. The resonant link frequency is approximately 70kHz and the inverter drives a low voltage 2.2kW AC induction motor. The IGBT inverter operates off a 240V DC supply and an active clamping circuit limits the resonant bus voltage to 500V. A synchronized PWM scheme is used to modulate the resonant...

Quantum electronic devices such as resonant tunneling diodes and transistors are now beginning to be used in ultrafast and compact circuit designs. These devices exhibit negative differential resistance (NDR) and/or negative transconductance in their I-V characteristics and have active dimensions of a few nanometers. Since the conventional drift-diffusion approximation is not valid for simulati...