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A novel capacitive power transfer (CPT) structure through self-capacitance routes is proposed in this paper. Selfcapacitance is the nature property of an isolated conductor which represents the amount of charges that have to be added to a conductor to promote its potential by one unit with respect to infinity. By utilizing the self-capacitance effects, one of the two coupling capacitors for conventional...
In three-phase dual-active-bridge (DAB) converter, the zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) range, DC capacitor ripple current and converter efficiency are significantly impacted by the selectable system parameters, including transformer turn ratio n, switching frequency f and leakage inductance Lk. The converter performance also varies with different operation conditions, i.e., input voltage, output voltage...
This paper presents the design process of a 13.56 MHz 10 kW and high efficiency inverter for wireless power transfer systems. The new 650V E-mode GaN is used in multiphase resonant topology to obtain high output power. The optimized efficiency design and the driver design are presented in detail. The circuit simulation results show that the inverter achieves 10 kW output power with the efficiency...
This paper proposes a new control method for two stage converters to realize the virtual synchronous generator (VSG) operation, which also can help eliminate circulating power between energy storage (ES) converters. It is proven in this paper that the proposed method shares stronger resemblances with synchronous generators (SGs) than traditional VSG in aspects of power conversion process and mathematical...
In recent years, a demand of an isolated AC/DC converter for the grid connection increases. The authors have proposed an isolated three-phase AC/DC converter using soft-switching technique and the control. This paper presents a soft-switching parameter design for the isolated three-phase AC/DC converter. The effectiveness is verified by experiments.
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a device which can convert chemical energy into electrical energy directly, it has great utilization potentiality in the field of environmental monitoring and new energy development. The change of current is used to characterize the change of pollutant concentration. The power density of MFCs is so low and unstable that energyharvesting circuits are needed for real world...
This paper proposes full-wave voltage doubling type series-synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (S-SSHI) circuit for piezoelectric energy harvesting. A conventional circuit is composed of a full-bridge rectifier circuit and SSHI circuit to increase the output power. In the proposed circuit, a full-wave voltage doubling rectifier is chosen and the SSHI circuit is included in the rectifier circuit...
This paper proposed a new soft-switched non-isolated bidirectional converter for energy storage systems. The hard-switched non-isolated bidirectional converter is improved with additional soft-switch cell incorporated with auxiliary active switches, diodes and passive elements. The main operating characteristics of this topology are to transfer the power flow in both directions from low voltage to...
This paper presents a fully integrated dc-dc converter with on-chip double galvanic isolation. The converter exploits only two dice both fabricated in a 0.35-μm BCD technology with a thick-oxide back-end for 5-kV galvanic isolation. It uses a novel architecture to transmit power across two isolation barriers, which are performed by integrated capacitors and transformers. LC coupling inherently enables...
This work presents a fully-integrated sub-GHz radio System on Chip (SoC) for Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The receiver (RX) achieves 77dB blocker rejection and −106dBm sensitivity at 50kbps. The transmitter (TX) features a Switched-Capacitor Power Amplifier (SCPA) that delivers 13.5dBm output power. To fulfil stringent Japanese emission regulation,...
This paper proposes a novel control strategy for the brushless DC motor drive system fed by electrolytic capacitor-less inverter. In order to obtain high power factor, this paper proposes a new control method that regulates the inverter input current. The calculated compensation current of small film capacitor is subtracted from the ideal ac input current, which is regarded as the ideal inverter input...
Intermediate coils are used in wireless power transfer to improve system performance, such as power transfer capability and efficiency. However, they can have adverse effects if used improperly. This paper focuses on the coil coupling stage of three-coil series-compensated wireless power transfer systems and analyses the effects of the intermediate coil under different conditions. When the coupling...
To improve the dynamic performance and the anti-disturbance capability of the photovoltaic energy storage system, a control strategy of the bidirectional DC-DC converter based on Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Control (LADRC) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the mathematical model of the bidirectional DC-DC converter is established. And then, the double closed-loop control strategy based on...
In this paper, an advanced layout scheme of an integrated capacitor is presented which improves the efficiency of a poly-poly capacitor based voltage doubler charge pump. The main losses in voltage doubler charge pumps are mathematically described and the importance of low stray capacitances are discussed. By means of the improved poly-poly capacitor layout, the usable capacitance is increased while...
This paper compares the characteristics of serial, parallel and LCC compensation topologies of secondary-side in wireless powering systems with a constant-current primary-side. The topologies characteristics of power, efficiency and load are carefully analyzed and detailed presented. And the correctness of theoretical analysis is verified by simulations. This study results can guide the selection...
A system level approach of a wearable rectified harvester array formed by integrating PVDF films and piezoelectric-charge-gated thin-film transistors (PCGTFTs) was addressed. Output power of the array upon various gratis non-stop daily trusts and body movements has been conducted. A peak power of a few μW from gentle finger bending is achieved. The analysis of voltage waveforms in response to both...
A novel observer-based feedforward compensation method is proposed to improve the output voltage regulation of a boost power-factor-correction (PFC) rectifier. A feedback observer estimates the load current for use in the feedforward correction of the inductor current. The feedback gain of the observer is intimately related to the regulation error of the output voltage. Given required performance,...
This work presents a fully integrated single-stage 2.4 GHz power amplifier (PA) that was designed in a 180nm CMOS process using a power combining technique to achieve higher output power. A series combining transformer (SCT) combines two cascode differential amplifiers and makes extensive use of virtual AC ground nodes to reduce the impact of bond-wire parasitics. The center-taps of the output transformers...
This paper proposes a unified power-based droop control method for distributed energy resources in dc microgrids that can operate both in grid-connected and islanded mode. When the main grid is available, the bus voltage is regulated by the grid-interface ac/dc converter, while distributed energy resources operate as power controlled sources. During abnormal operation of the main grid (e.g., due to...
Recently, a novel hybrid multilevel inverter topology, the EDA5, was presented. The novel inverter topology comprises of two floating capacitors and 16 active switches to achieve five-level output voltage waveform and achieves higher efficiency at low-modulation index compared to a five-level Active Neural Point Clamped (5L-ANPC) converter. In this work, a full SiC MOSFET version of the inverter is...
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