Publications related to Current mirror

Ripple Voltage and Loss Reduction of Single-Phase ISOP SST by Eliminating the Second Harmonic Current in LLC Converters

Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Tianyu Wei

In two-stage solid-state transformers with input-series output-parallel structure, the LLC converter operating at a fixed switching frequency is a common choice for the isolated DC/DC conversion stage because it can provide a high efficiency and a fixed vo ...

2024

Runaway dynamics in tokamak disruptions with current relaxation

The safe operation of tokamak reactors requires a reliable modelling capability of disruptions, and in particular the spatio-temporal dynamics of associated runaway electron currents. In a disruption, instabilities can break up magnetic surfaces into chaot ...

Cambridge University Press2022

Enhancement Mode Tri-gate GaN Power Devices and Logic Circuits

Minghua Zhu

Gallium Nitride (GaN) is one of the most promising materials for high frequency power switching due to its exceptional properties such as large saturation velocity, high carrier mobility, and high breakdown field strength. The high switching frequency of G ...

EPFL2021

Analytical Expressions for Lightning Electromagnetic Fields With Arbitrary Channel-Base Current—Part I: Theory

Marcos Rubinstein

The article provides analytical expressions for the electromagnetic fields generated by a lightning return stroke characterized by a channel-base current with arbitrary time waveform, in presence of either a perfectly conducting or a lossy ground, assuming ...

2021

Superconductors for power applications: an executable and web application to learn about resistive fault current limiters

Francesco Grilli, Nicolo' Riva, Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit

High-temperature superconductors (HTS) can be superconducting in liquid nitrogen (77 K) at atmospheric pressure, which holds immense promises for our future such as nuclear fusion, compact medical devices and efficient power applications. In a power system ...

2021

A Cryogenic Broadband Sub-1-dB NF CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for Quantum Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

A cryogenic broadband low noise amplifier (LNA) for quantum applications based on a standard 40-nm CMOS technology is reported. The LNA specifications are derived from the readout of semiconductor quantum bits at 4.2 K, whose quantum information signals ar ...

2021

Impact of Embedded Liquid Cooling on the Electrical Characteristics of GaN-on-Si Power Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Armin Jafari, Luca Nela, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Catherine Erine

Wide-Band-Gap semiconductors have enabled considerable miniaturization of power devices, which requires, however, new thermal management solutions to handle the resulting high heat fluxes. Recently, embedded liquid cooling in GaN-on-Si devices was demonstr ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Inflection Phenomenon in Cryogenic MOSFET Behavior

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

This brief reports the analytical modeling and measurements of the inflection in the MOSFET transfer characteristics at cryogenic temperatures. Inflection is the inward bending of the drain current versus gate voltage, which reduces the current in weak and ...

2020

High-Voltage Normally-off Recessed Tri-Gate GaN Power MOSFETs With Low on-Resistance

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Minghua Zhu, Luca Nela, Catherine Erine

In this letter, we present normally-off GaN-on-Si MOSFETs based on the combination of tri-gate with a short barrier recess to yield a large positive threshold voltage (VTH) while maintaining a low specific on resistance (R ON,SP ) and high current density ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Status of the European Union Project FASTGRID

Bertrand Dutoit, Frédéric Sirois, Bertrand Dutoit, Mathias Noe

High voltage direct current super-grids are one attractive solution for the transmission of bulk power of renewable electricity over long distances. Their protection is still an issue and superconducting fault current limiters (SCFCL) offer attractive pers ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Development of graphene-based ionizing radiation sensors

Davide Forti, Alberto Ciarrocchi, Giovanni Borghi

We present the first steps to develop radiation sensors based on the graphene field effect transistor technology. Such a sensor exploits the ambipolar behavior of graphene near its Dirac point and it is not dependent on collecting charges, but it senses io ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Negative Capacitance as Universal Digital and Analog Performance Booster for Complementary MOS Transistors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Christian Enz, Igor Stolichnov, Farzan Jazaeri, Ali Saeidi

Boltzmann electron energy distribution poses a fundamental limit to lowering the energy dissipation of conventional MOS devices, a minimum increase of the gate voltage, i.e. 60 mV, is required for a 10-fold increase in drain-to-source current at 300 K. Neg ...

Nature Research2019

On-Chip High-Voltage Sensors Based on Trap-Assisted 2DEG Channel Control

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari

In this work, we present a new device concept for compact high-voltage sensing with high-impedance input port, consisting of an AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility channel controlled by trapped carriers generated by a metallic electrode. The high-voltage appl ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Modeling and Design Optimization of Medium Frequency Transformers for Medium-Voltage High-Power Converters

Marko Mogorovic

Novel high-power medium-voltage converter technologies offering galvanic insulation are needed to support the development of the emerging medium-voltage direct-current grids and further improve the performance of various other applications such as traction ...

EPFL2019

A Passivity-Based Approach to Voltage Stabilization in DC Microgrids with ZIP loads

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Michele Tucci, Raffaele Soloperto, Andrea Martinelli

We consider the application of passivity theory to the problem of voltage stabilization in DC microgrids, which are composed of distributed generation units, dynamic RLC lines, and nonlinear ZIP (constant impedance, constant current, and constant power) lo ...

2020

An integrator-differentiator TIA using a multi-element pseudo-resistor in its DC servo loop for enhanced noise performance

Georg Fantner, Jens Anders

In this paper, we present an integrator-differentiator transimpedance amplifier (TIA) featuring a multielement pseudo-resistor (MEPR) in the DC feedback path for improved noise performance in the presence of non-zero DC input currents. The presented protot ...

IEEE2018

Control of Resistive Switching in Mott Memories Based on TiN/AM4Q8/TiN MIM Devices

Giovanni De Micheli, Davide Sacchetto, Jury Sandrini, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

The family of AM4Q8 chalcogenide Mott insulators gained attention in recent years for its application opportunities. Here, we explore and validate the resistive switching mechanism of thin-film of GaV4S8 sandwich ...

Electrochemical Society2017

Characterization of bipolar transistors for cryogenic temperature sensors in standard CMOS

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle, Fabio Sebastiano

This paper presents the cryogenic characterization of the bipolar substrate PNPs that are typically employed as sensing elements in CMOS integrated temperature sensors. PNPs realized in a standard 160-nm CMOS technology were characterized over the temperat ...

2017

A Nine Decade Femtoampere Current to Frequency Converter

Evgenia Voulgari

Various applications require ultra-low current sensing. Some of these applications are related to ionizing radiation detection. Radiation monitoring is important in particle physics experiments, nuclear facilities, hadron therapy institutes and hospitals. ...

EPFL2017

Analog Programmable Distance Calculation Circuit for Winner Takes All Neural Network Realized in the CMOS Technology

Rafal Tomasz Dlugosz

This paper presents a programmable analog current-mode circuit used to calculate the distance between two vectors of currents, following two distance measures. The Euclidean (L2) distance is commonly used. However, in many situations, it can be replaced wi ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016