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Introducing the Common Cross Connected Stage (C3S) for the 5L ANPC Multilevel Inverter

This paper proposes a novel multilevel Power Electronics Building Block (PEBB) for the 5 level ANPC multilevel voltage source inverter [7]. The PEBB is composed of 6 switches in a crossed configuration [8] and one capacitor. It is common to the 3 phases of ...

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On performance of series connected CMOS vertical hall devices

Radivoje Popovic, Mirjana Banjevic

Series connected (stacked) CMOS vertical Hall devices were analyzed on the basis of performance of a single five contacts device biased at different common mode voltages with respect to the substrate. The uneven influence of junction field effect on residu ...

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Substrate current modeling for high-voltage smart power BCD technology

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Marc Pastre, Fabrizio Lo Conte

This paper presents a compact- and a macro-model for estimating and simulating the perturbations induced in the substrate by high-voltage transistors switching inductive loads. On one hand, it allows the designer to predict the amount of switching noise ge ...

2008

Thermally Assisted Transition in Thin Film Based FCL: A Way to Speed Up the Normal Transition Across the Wafer

Joseph Duron, Bertrand Dutoit

The adjunction of constrictions along the meander of a superconducting Fault Current Limiter (FCL) greatly improves its behavior thanks to a better distribution of the dissipative zones at the occurrence of a short circuit. This design works perfectly for ...

2007

The Active Self-controlled Free-wheeling Management Principle Applied to Reverse Recovery Losses Reduction

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade, Daniel Siemaszko

Several works suggest the imminent appearance of bidirectional active devices. The promised performances go in the direction of a reverse recovery effects reduction and efficiency improvement. Our purpose is the study of an active management for switches t ...

2007

High Efficient Interleaved Multi-channel dc/dc Converter Dedicated to Mobile Applications

Alfred Rufer, Blaise Destraz, Yannick Louvrier

In the transportation field, the empty weight of the vehicle has to be as light as possible in order to have the highest energetic efficiency. For onboard storage electrical systems, dc/dc converters are usually used to control the power flows in the vehic ...

2006

High-Voltage Sensitivity Studies of Model Thick-Film Resistors

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq, Niklaus Johner, Adrian Kambli

In this work we seek to better understand the mechanisms governing pulse voltage trimming in disordered conductor-insulator composites. Therefore, we investigate the effect of the composition of thick-film resistors (TFRs) on sensitivity to high voltage pu ...

2006

Investigation and control of a hybrid asymmetric multi-level inverter for medium-voltage applications

Martin Veenstra

Power-electronic inverters are becoming popular for various industrial drives applications. In recent years also high-power and medium-voltage drive applications have been installed. However, the existing solutions suffer from some important drawbacks. Hyb ...

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Non-Equilibrium State Capacitor Voltage Stabilization in a Hybrid Asymmetric Nine-Level Inverter: Non-Linear Model-Predictive Control

Alfred Rufer, Martin Veenstra

Hybrid asymmetric multi-level inverters promise significant improvements for medium-voltage industrial drives. Floating sub inverters without feeding allow increased efficiency, but can only supply reactive power. An on-line non-linear model-predictive con ...

2003

Manufacture of micro-electro-mechanical-system using sacrificial layer made of silicon, useful for micro-electro-mechanical-system device architecture, e.g. radio-frequency capacitive switch and current switch

Cyrille Hibert, Philippe Flückiger

NOVELTY - A micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) is manufactured by the use of a sacrificial layer that is made of silicon. USE - The invention is used in surface micromachining for the manufacture of a MEMS containing a suspended metal layer or MEMS dev ...

2002

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