In our work, we studied thin nickel films deposited by electroless plating for use as a barrier and seed layer in the through-silicon vias (TSV) technology. El-Ni coatings were deposited on a copper substrate from the original electrolyte and with th...
This paper presents the first successful implementation of fully printed electronics for flexible and wearable smart multi-pad stimulation electrodes intended for use in medical, sports and lifestyle applications. The smart multi-pad electrodes with...
Almost two decades have passed since the development of the first (stand-alone) version of the oscilloscope simulator, known as Analogue Oscilloscope Simulator, widely utilized by thousands of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students at Ins...
Since energy efficiency in comminution of ores is as small as 1% using a mechanical crushing process, it is highly demanded to improve its efficiency. Using electrical impulses to selectively liberate valuable minerals from ores can be a solution of...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are an alternative to internal combustion engine (ICE) cars, as they can reduce the environmental impact of transportation. The bottleneck for EVs is the high-voltage battery pack, which utilizes most of the space and increase...
In this paper, we initiate the notion of Ćirić type rational graphic
There has been increasing interests in the use of double layer capacitors (DLCs)—most commonly referred to as supercapacitors (SCs), ultra-capacitors (UCs), or hybrid capacitors (HCs)—in the field of power electronics. This increased inte...
Thousands of people currently suffer from motor limitations caused by SCI and strokes, which impose personal and social challenges. These individuals may have a satisfactory recovery by applying functional electrical stimulation that enables the arti...
The past few years have seen strong growth of solar-based off-grid energy solutions such as Solar Home Systems (SHS) as a means to ameliorate the grave problem of energy poverty. Battery storage is an essential component of SHS. An accurate battery m...
Fractional polytropic gas sphere problems and electrical engineering models typically simulated with interconnected circuits have numerous applications in physical, astrophysical phenomena, and thermionic currents. Generally, most of these models are...
Power optimization is a very important and challenging step in the physical design flow, and it is a critical success factor of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip. Many techniques are used by the place and route (P&R) electron...
The symmetry concept is mainly used in two senses. The first from the aesthetic point of view of proportionality or harmony, since human beings seek symmetry in nature. Or the second, from an engineering point of view to attend to geometric regularit...
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of on-chip thermal gradients on the accuracy of a monolithic low-dropout regulator (LDO). Measurements from a silicon prototype show that load-induced temperature gradients introduce systematic, load-...
The lithium-ion cell model is the heart of the battery management system—a more accurate model ensures operational safety, extends pack lifetime, and provides better tracking of battery charge and health. Catalyzed by the automotive industry&rs...
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators have been widely adopted for artificial intelligence (AI) applications on edge devices (Edge-AI) utilizing Deep Neural Networks (DNN) architectures. FPGAs have gained their reputation due to the great...
In recent years, the advancements in specialized hardware architectures have supported the industry and the research community to address the computation power needed for more enhanced and compute intensive artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and...
To address the issue of over-standard short-circuit currents in a power system, it is imperative to enhance the comprehensive performance of the electrical contacts, which serve as the lynchpin of circuit breakers, so as to improve the breaking capac...
Electrical stimulation technology has advanced from cardiac pacemakers towards cochlear implants, physical rehabilitation, and treatment for Parkinson’s and other diseases. Electrical stimulation parameters, such as waveform, amplitude, and sti...
Impedance Spectroscopy (IS) is a general term for the technique referring to small-signal measurements of the linear electrical response of a domain of interest. This method is based on the analysis of the system’s electrical response to yield...
The equivalent circuit model is widely used in high-voltage (HV) engineering to simulate the behavior of HV applications for insulation/dielectric materials. In this study, equivalent circuit models were prepared in order to represent the electric an...
This paper reports the production process and the features of a newly developed high-performance DC electric fuse to be used for high voltage, high energy system applications, such as electric vehicles, factory inverter circuits, fuel cell systems. T...
The Internet of things (IoT) paradigm promotes the emergence of solutions to enable energy-management strategies. However, these solutions may favor the disposal or replacement of outdated but still necessary systems. Thus, a proposal that advocates...
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the design and implementation methods of low-power piezoelectric energy harvesting circuits, which in the last few years have gained an extremely large range of applications like the power sources of wear...
This paper is concerned with electric–acoustic/acoustic–electric conversions of thin-wafer piezoelectric transducers polarized in the thickness direction. By introducing two mechanical components with frequency-dependent values, i.e., rad...
Equivalent circuit models are crucial for estimating the performance of piezoelectric transducers. Certain techniques, such as electrical impedance matching between the transmitter and piezoelectric transducers, help optimize the performance of ultra...
Air circuit breakers are critical protective devices in low-voltage distribution systems, and their reliability is considered to have significant influence on the operation of such systems. With respect to the electrical performance degradation of ai...
Aerosol jet printing of electronic devices is increasingly attracting interest in recent years. However, low capability and high resistance are still limitations of the printed electronic devices. In this paper, we introduce a novel post-treatment me...
This paper proposes an experimental methodology for the systematic determination of the equivalent circuit parameters of three winding high frequency transformers (3W-HFTs) for modeling the electrical behavior and the power losses of triple active br...
This paper focuses on the investigation and implementation of a high-performance power conversion system to reduce the overvoltage phenomenon in variable speed electric drive applications. Particularly, the pros and cons of using Silicon Carbide powe...
The symmetry principle of circuit system shows that we can equate a complex structure in the circuit network to a simple circuit. Hence, this paper only considers a simple series RL circuit and first presents an uncertain RL circuit model based on mu...
The improvement of microelectronic technologies and the practical application of some new materials has resulted in the realization of various highly efficient thin-film energy harvesters in the last few years. Self-powered supplies intended to work...
This descriptive case study explores the teaching and learning of complex introductory circuit concepts in a compulsory sophomore circuits’ course. The study investigates the instructional strategies employed by the instructor to facilitate stu...
To reduce the allocation of land for the construction of electric power facilities, it is possible to leverage multi-circuit overhead transmission lines (MCTLs), in which the conductors of several circuits of different voltage classes are placed on t...
Electronic devices using the piezoelectric effect contain piezoelectric materials: often crystals, but in many cases poled ferroelectric ceramics (piezoceramics), polymers or composites. On the one hand, these materials exhibit non-negligible losses,...
The objective of this study is to inkjet print resistor-capacitor (RC) low pass electrical filters, using a novel water-based cellulose graphene ink, and compare the voltage-frequency and transient behavior to equivalent circuits constructed from dis...
A detailed theoretical design of an electric resonance-based coupler for dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) at the mobile robot level is presented. The scattering matrix of the coupler was derived by transforming and multiplying transmission matr...
The aim of the paper is to present the battery equivalent circuit for electric vehicle application. Moreover, the model described below is dedicated to lithium-ion types of batteries. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an efficient and transpa...
Motors serve as the primary power sources in a wide range of industrial fields. In recent years, their application has been expanded to electric and hybrid electric vehicles. As the performance of the motors installed in electric vehicles directly af...
Successful data acquisition on mobile platforms, such as tractors, requires the provision of protection for the sensitive electronics, as these platforms are inherently rife with electrical transients that have sufficient energy to cause damage to un...
Any electric transmission lines involving the transfer of power or electric signal requires the matching of electric parameters with the driver, source, cable, or the receiver electronics. Proceeding with the design of electric impedance matching cir...
Catalyzed by the increasing interest in bi-directional electric vehicles, this paper delves into their significance and the challenges they encounter. Bi-directional electric vehicles not only serve as transportation but also function as essential el...
This paper presents a novel tangential electric-field sensor with an embedded integrated balun for sensing up a tangential electric field over a circuit surface in the near-field measurements covering the GPS band. The integrated balun is embedded in...
Improving microelectronic technologies has created various micro-power electronic devices with different practical applications, including wearable electronic modules and systems. Furthermore, the power sources for wearable electronic devices most of...
In the present work, a network model for the numerical resolution of the heat transport problem in porous media coupled with a water flow is presented. Starting from the governing equations, both for 1D and 2D geometries, an equivalent electrical cir...
Computer-aided design (CAD) is a technological revolution, very powerful and with large applicability to problem solving. It is essential in many different disciplines ranging from architecture to education, medicine, physics, or gaming. In this work...
Field-effect transistor (FET)-based biosensors have garnered significant attention for their label-free electrical detection of charged biomolecules. Whereas conventional output parameters such as threshold voltage and channel current have been widel...
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is finding increasing use in electrochemical sensors and biosensors, both in their characterisation, including during successive phases of sensor construction, and in application as a quantitative determination...
A bidirectional resonant converter is presented and verified in this paper for an electric vehicle battery charger/discharger system. The presented circuit can achieve forward and backward power operation, low switching losses on active devices, and...
Integration of phase-change materials (PCMs) into electrical/optical circuits has initiated extensive innovation for applications of metamaterials (MMs) including rewritable optical data storage, metasurfaces, and optoelectronic devices. PCMs have be...
In this study, the resistive switching phenomenon in Al/SiO2/n++-Si structures is observed and studied by means of DC, small-signal admittance, and complex impedance spectroscopy measurements. Possible transport mechanisms in the high and low resista...
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