Josephson [8] predicted in 1962 that a DC tunnel current would flow between two superconductors connected by a thin insulating layer of thickness less than about 20 Å in the absence of a voltage difference, an effect now called the DC Josephson effect. The quantum-mechanical current, called the superconducting current, arises from the tunneling of Cooper pairs of electrons of opposite spin and ...

In this work, the application of numerical device simulation to the analysis of high resistivity silicon microstrip detectors is illustrated. The analysis of dc, ac and transient responses of a single-sided, dc-coupled detector has been carried out, providing results in good agreement with experimental data. In particular, transient-mode simulation has been exploited to investigate the collecti...

Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter: Superior where the Buck Converter has Dominated

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In recent years, more research has been done on Enhancement Mode Gallium Nitride (eGaN) converters as the world is moving towards more power efficient converters. The process to make converters more efficient was bit complicated and slow in 20th century. With help of simulation tools such as MATLAB and LTspice, this process has become much faster and reliable in modern era. In order to make thi...

Ideal power converters are governed by differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides. General-purpose algorithms to compute their Lyapunov exponents assume smooth equations, so are not directly applicable to power electronics. We review the methods and their problems, focusing on the largest Lyapunov exponent, which dominates system behavior. The variational approach can incorporat...

Current sensing is one of the most important functions on a smart power chip. Conventional current-sensing methods insert a resistor in the path of the current to be sensed. This method incurs significant power losses, especially when the current to be sensed is high. Lossless current-sensing methods address this issue by sensing the current without dissipating the power that passive resistors ...

A nematic liquid crystal with high, positive dielectric anisotropy (5CB) has been studied under the influence of the combined action of a DC and an AC electric field. Broad frequency, voltage and cell thickness ranges were considered. Pattern morphologies were identified; the thresholds and critical wave numbers were measured and analyzed as a function of frequency, DC/AC voltage ratio and thic...