in the present study, a model of a large lithium polymer (li-po) battery for use in the simulation of hybrid electric vehicles (hevs) is developed. to attain this goal, an equivalent circuit (ec) consisting of a series resistor and two rc parallel networks is considered. the accuracy and the response time of the model for use in an hev simulator are studied. the battery parameters identificatio...

The quasi-linear transport equation is investigated for modeling the bipolar memory resistor. The solution accommodates vacancy and circuit level perspectives on memristance. For the first time in literature the component resistors that constitute the contemporary dual variable resistor circuit model are quantified using vacancy parameters and derived from a governing partial differential equat...

It is shown that, unlike the case of the distribution of currents in a random resistor network, all negative moments of the harmonic measure in diffusion-limited aggregates exhibit power-law scaling with sample size.

A simple relaxation oscillator is designed by directly coupling a RC timing network to a passive S-shaped current-controlled nonlinear resistor and is then modified for chaos. The resulting chaotic oscillator inherits the main features of the relaxation oscillator, which are its low-power consumption and low-voltage operation from single or dual power supplies. These features are attributed to ...

A highly linear programmable-gain amplifier (PGA) is fabricated using a 0.35m CMOS technology. High linearity and constant wide bandwidth are achieved by using a high-gain amplifier with low input impedance and resistor-network feedback. The voltage gain is varied by digitally controlling the input switched resistors. The distortion of a switched resistor has been analyzed using the Volterra se...

A thermal interface material (TIM) is a crucial material for transferring heat from a die to a heatsink. We developed a new TIM composed of carbon nanotubes, silicon thermal grease, and chloroform. The thermal impedance of the TIM was measured using a new device based on thermometer principles to measure thermal impedance and resistance. This device consists of an alumina substrate, titanium tu...

We show that the e ective complex impedance of materials with conductivity and dielectric permittivity that have high contrast can be calculated approximately by solving a suitable resistor-capacitor network. We use extensively variational principles for the analysis and we assess the accuracy of the network approximation by numerical computations.