Radio-frequency capacitively coupled plasmas that incorporate structured electrodes enable increases in the electron density within spatially localized regions through the hollow cathode effect (HCE). This enables enhanced control over the spatial profile of the plasma density, which is useful for several applications including materials processing, lighting and spacecraft propulsion. However, ...

Abstract. This paper proposes a novel soft-switching dual full-bridge converter with shared lagging leg and dual outputs in series. Resonant clamp circuits are employed across the secondary rectifiers to reduce the voltage overshoots of the secondary rectifiers, as well as extinguish the primary current during the freewheeling interval. Full Zero-Voltage-Switching (ZVS) range of the lagging leg...

This article reviews a new technique for secondary side control of a DC-DC converter without using an auxiliary bias supply. A unique primary side start up circuit is used to drive the primary side power transistor. Gate pulse information for the primary transistor is transmitted through a pulse transformer that is shown to be smaller than an opto-isolator. The discussion includes transformer-r...

This paper presents a distributed control architecture for voltage and frequency stabilization in AC islanded microgrids. In the primary control layer, each generation unit is equipped with a local controller acting on the corresponding voltage-source converter. Following the plug-and-play design approach previously proposed by some of the authors, whenever the addition/removal of a distributed...

LCL filter has the characteristic of prompt attenuation over the high-frequency range, but the thirdorder control system exits the resonance problem. Nonetheless, the inherent non-linear characteristic and dead-time effects of switching tubes, along with the DC-side voltage secondary pulsation and grid harmonic pollution, arouse a wealth of low-order harmonics injected which is tough to be filt...

This paper presents a control strategy for fuel cell/energy storage power generation system during voltage sag conditions. The hybrid DC power sources are connected to grid using power electronic converters include DC-DC converter and grid connected voltage source inverter. The power from hybrid power sources is controlled during voltage sag by designing of control strategy for DC-DC converter....