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On Energy Control of Modular Multilevel Converters

Milan Utvic

Owing to the advancements in the area of power electronics, efficient and flexible ac to dc conversion is made possible, bringing back into focus the idea of the dc power transmission at various voltage levels. Several technical and economical factors advo ...

EPFL2023

Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an additive manufacturing technology where a fiber is deposited in a precise way with the help of an electric field to build micrometric designs for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM). The commercially availabl ...

2022

Ultra-High-Voltage (7-kV) Bidirectional Flyback Converter Used to Drive Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Morgan Almanza, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet, Lucas Pniak

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have extremely advantageous characteristics such as lightness, compactness, flexibility, and large displacements. However, in order to operate, they can require voltages in the order of several thousands of volts. Thus ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

Thomas Christoph Müller

With the advent of intelligent sensor nodes in everyday life, low power aspects of system design become more and more important. Adaptive body biasing is a promising methodology to achieve dynamic adaptation of the tradeoff between performance and energy b ...

EPFL2021

High Tuning Range Spiking 1R-1T VO2 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Integrated RF and Optical Sensing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi

In this work we propose and experimentally validate a relaxation spiking oscillator architecture with ultra-high tuning range (higher than 400%, from 5KHz to more than 25kHz when the control voltage is varied from 2.5 to 5V) that exploits the reversible me ...

IEEE2021

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The DC-DC flyback converter is one of the most suitable topologies to generate the voltages necessary to operate Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. Voltages which can range from 5 to 20 kV. Previous works demonstrated through experiments the flyback’s ability ...

IEEE2021

Comprehensive Spectral Analysis of PWM Waveforms With Compensated DC link Oscillations

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic

In the available literature, including reference books on the topic, the spectral analysis of voltage waveforms obtained through the use of pulse-width modulation relies on the assumption of an ideally flat voltage across the DC link of a considered switch ...

2020

Ultra High Voltage Switch for Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Driving Dielectric Elastomer Actuator

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Morgan Almanza, Lucas Pniak

Specific applications, such as dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) or electroactive polymers, require to switch voltage levels exceeding the ratings of existing semiconductor devices. In low power application, reversible flyback are widely used to supply ...

2020

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Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) require ultra high voltages in the order of several kilo volts to operate. To supply such voltages, a DC-DC flyback converter topology was selected. One of the main advantage of using such a structure is the possibilit ...

2020

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In this article, a setup including a passive gas breakdown mitigation technique for satellite slip ring assemblies (SRAs) is introduced and tested. The setup features a central conducting ring, separated from two external conducting limiting discs (LDs) by ...

2020