This paper introduces an optical AC voltage sensor based on the transverse Pockels effect. The sensor utilizes a bulk Bi(4)Ge(3)O(12) (BGO) crystal as the sensing element. The measurement principle has been described and prototype of the sensor has been constructed and evaluated. Good linearity and accuracy performance was obtained for AC voltage measurement. The proposed sensor can be thus app...

This paper deals with the measurement of AC corona inception voltage, Vincp, at the tip of a rod electrode using a hemispherically-capped rod-plane electrode configuration for various rod radii with a short air gap. Effects of atmospheric pressure and temperature variation on Vincp are investigated experimentally. An empirical equation for the field form factors of the hemispherically cappe...

An all-digital on-chip delay sensor (OCDS) circuit with high delay-measurement resolution and low supply-voltage sensitivity for efficient detection and diagnosis in high-performance electronic system applications is presented. Based on the proposed delay measurement scheme, the quantization resolution of the proposed OCDS can be reduced to several picoseconds. Additionally, the proposed cascad...

introduction: well type ionization chamber is a measuring device which is used to determine the activity of brachytherapy sources. the chamber has a cylindrical volume in which a cylindrical tube is mounted in the middle of the chamber. for the measurements, the brachytherapy sources are transferred to the middle of the tube. materials and methods: for designing the well type chamber, the measu...

this paper presents the application of the matching pursuit method to model synchronous generator. this method is useful for online analysis. in the proposed method, the field voltage is considered as input signal, while the terminal voltage and active power of the generator are output signals. usually, the difference equation with a second degree polynomial structure is used to estimate the co...

We propose and demonstrate an optical voltage sensing scheme based on a macrobending optical fiber in a ratiometric power measurement system. This novel approach to sensing has not been utilized before and has the advantage that the sensor involves simple fabrication compared to existing fiberoptic voltage sensors. To prove the feasibility of such a fiber-optic sensor, a sensor for a voltage ra...

A novel approach to the dynamic supply current sensing based on the measurement of voltage drop across a parasitic resistance of the supply voltage metal line is presented. Then, auto-zero technique for voltage comparator offset cancellation, which provides very accurate and sensitive low voltage measurement is proposed. Therefore, we may use this as a current monitor for dynamic current testin...

Insulation is a crucial phenomenon for high voltage apparatus. Partial discharge activity affects the service life of the dielectrics. Therefore partial discharge must be less than a specified value for high voltage equipment. An accurate partial discharge measurement strongly depends on scaling of the measurement systems. It is a general method to use a partial discharge calibrator to calibrat...

Today uncertainties of a phase difference of two sinusoidal signals is commonly about 10 μrad for non coherent measurements and signal amplitudes up to several volts. Increasing voltage range of a phase meter requires special considerations. The construction of a special voltage divider intended for precise phase difference measurement is presented in this paper. The uncertainty contribution of...

Wide-range level shifters play critical roles in ultra-low-voltage circuits and systems. Although state-of-the-art level shifters can convert a sub threshold voltage to the standard supply voltage, they may have limited operating ranges, which restrict the flexibility of dynamic voltage scaling. Therefore, this paper presents a novel level shifter, of which the operating range is from a deep su...