A new family of matrix converters is introduced, that employs relatively simple voltage-clamped buses and can generate multilevel voltage waveforms of arbitrary magnitude and frequency. The basic configuration includes a nine-switch matrix that uses four-quadrant switch cells. Each four-quadrant switch cell resembles a full-bridge inverter and can assume three voltage levels during conduction. ...

Semiconductor power modules are the key hardware components of a traction inverter. It drives motor speed and torque, managing energy exchange from battery to viceversa. The increasing demand for electric hybrid vehicle requests high performance modules. Power semiconductor devices based on wide band gap compound, like silicon carbide (SiC), have excellent electrical properties in terms on-stat...

Developing electronics in unconventional forms provides opportunities to expand the use of electronics in diverse applications including bio-integrated or implanted electronics. One of the key challenges lies in integrating semiconductor microdevices onto unconventional substrates without glue, high pressure or temperature that may cause damage to microdevices, substrates or interfaces. This pa...

In this paper, two single phase ac loads are supplied with one inverter and reduced switch count topologies are introduced in this paper. It has three switch single leg structures. This single leg inverter is functionally comparable to half bridge inverter working independently though with a less number of semiconductor switch and hence control and gate drive circuit components. This three swit...

Optical switching can be performed by using optical amplifiers combined with a passive waveguiding network. Recently, most of the effort in optical amplifier switch modules have been focused on monolithic switches in which the entire device is fabricated on an InP substrate together with the semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). In this paper, we investigate the use of SOAs with passive poly...

A Pulsed Power System is characterized by its energy storage system, the energy can be released in the form of a high power pulse to the load, by means of a switching device. The energy storage is usually either of an inductive or a capacitive nature. The limiting device in a Pulsed Power System is often the switch, which limits the pulse peak power and the repetition rate. The conventional app...

A model is reported allowing one to investigate the TCP/IP performance of a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) base switch with 10x10Gbps wavelength striped traffic. Bit Error Rate measurements and Packet Error Rate equivalences were assessed to demonstrate TCP throughput analysis in a cascaded SOA for an optical link.