Publications related to Pulse-forming network

Breakdown development in a nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier discharge in humid air in plane-to-plane geometry

We used the ns electric field induced second harmonic (EFISH) generation diagnostic to measure the electric field evolution in a 200 ns pulse, dielectric barrier, plane-to-plane discharge in humid air, on the time scale shorter than the laser pulse duratio ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

A Fully Fail-Safe Capacitive-Based Charge Metering Method for Active Charge Balancing in Deep Brain Stimulation

Alexandre Schmid, Reza Ranjandish

Related to safety issues, charge balancing is a major concern in neural and functional electrical stimulation. This paper presents a capacitive-based charge metering method as a low-power and precise charge balancing method used in Deep Brain Stimulation ( ...

IEEE2018

Acoustic energy harvesting using electrochemical double layor capacitors: Technical feasibility and performance assessment

Mario Paolone, Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Dimitri Torregrossa, Sami Driss Karkar

This paper describes a first prototype harvesting the acoustic energy using electrochemical storage devices. In particular, the harvesting system is composed by an Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC) suitably coupled with an electroacoustic abso ...

IEEE2016

A High Current Pulse-Power Supply for Flash Lamps in PV-Panel Measurement-Facilities

Alfred Rufer, Dayana El Hage

In this paper, a high current pulse power supply for the feeding of a flash lamp has been developed, on the base of a multilevel converter with cascaded cells. The pulsed high power is provided by capacitive energy storage, directly connected to the cells ...

2010

Principe d'alimentation par convertisseurs multiniveaux à stockage intégré : application aux accélérateurs de particules

Claude Fahrni

Facilities operating in cycles, such as particles accelerators, require pulsed power. Directly drawing this pulsed power from the industrial network is generally not acceptable. A system with a local energy storage system lessens the impact on the network. ...

EPFL2008

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

Alfred Rufer

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 ...

2008

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