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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,007 Views
28 Pages

9 October 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of high-voltage, high-frequency pulse generation techniques for Pockels cell drivers. These drivers are critical in electro-optic systems for laser modulation, where nanosecond-scale voltage pu...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,819 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2019

This article presents a high-voltage (HV) pulse driver based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for biomedical ultrasound actuators and multi-channel portable imaging systems specifically. The pulse driver, which receives an external low-voltag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics – Taiwan (IEEE 2019 ICCE-TW))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,010 Views
16 Pages

Investigating the Shielding Effect of Pulse Transformer Operation in Isolated Gate Drivers for SiC MOSFETs

  • Loreine Makki,
  • Marc Anthony Mannah,
  • Christophe Batard,
  • Nicolas Ginot and
  • Julien Weckbrodt

27 June 2021

Wide-bandgap technology evolution compels the advancement of efficient pulse-width gate-driver devices. Integrated enhanced gate-driver planar transformers are a source of electromagnetic disturbances due to inter-winding capacitances, which serve as...

(This article belongs to the Topic Power System Modeling and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,928 Views
14 Pages

Study of Bipolar Inductively Isolated High-Voltage Pulse Source

  • Hongda Li,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Sergey Sosnovskiy,
  • Long Che and ,
  • Guimao Zhang,
  • Shuaishuai Liu and
  • Zhao Jin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 September 2023

To meet the application requirements of pulsed power technology in wastewater treatment and other aspects (for example, a scenario that requires a high-voltage pulse source that can output a pulse with a rising edge in the nanosecond range and a devi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,858 Views
13 Pages

A Repetitive Low Impedance High Power Microwave Driver

  • Hanwu Yang,
  • Zicheng Zhang,
  • Jingming Gao,
  • Tao Xun and
  • Song Li

A low impedance high power microwave (HPM) driver is designed, which can be used in studying multi-gigawatt HPM devices such as the magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO), based on a helical pulse forming line (PFL) and the Tesla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical and Experimental Research in High-Power Microwave Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,706 Views
17 Pages

Updates on Impact Ionisation Triggering of Thyristors

  • Alicia Ana del Barrio Montañés,
  • Viliam Senaj,
  • Thomas Kramer and
  • Martin Sack

15 May 2024

High voltage (HV) generators are used in multiple industrial and scientific facilities. Recent publications have demonstrated that triggering industrial thyristors (relatively slow switching devices) in overvoltage mode, also called impact ionization...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,231 Views
22 Pages

25 June 2024

Many advanced technologies have been employed in high-performance active matrix displays, including liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diode displays, and micro-light-emitting diode displays. On the other side, there exists a strong dema...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Reliability Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,261 Views
12 Pages

29 May 2024

This paper presents a current-mode VCSEL driver (CMVD) implemented using 180 nm CMOS technology for application in short-range LiDAR sensors, in which current-steering logic is suggested to deliver modulation currents from 0.1 to 10 mApp and a bias c...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,457 Views
12 Pages

On-Road Detection of Driver Fatigue and Drowsiness during Medium-Distance Journeys

  • Luca Salvati,
  • Matteo d’Amore,
  • Anita Fiorentino,
  • Arcangelo Pellegrino and ,
  • Pasquale Sena and
  • Francesco Villecco
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 January 2021

Background: The detection of driver fatigue as a cause of sleepiness is a key technology capable of preventing fatal accidents. This research uses a fatigue-related sleepiness detection algorithm based on the analysis of the pulse rate variability ge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Its Applications across Disciplines II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,428 Views
19 Pages

Conceptual Design of a Laser Driver for a Plasma Accelerator User Facility

  • Guido Toci,
  • Zeudi Mazzotta,
  • Luca Labate,
  • François Mathieu and ,
  • Matteo Vannini,
  • Barbara Patrizi and
  • Leonida A. Gizzi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The purpose of the European project EuPRAXIA is to realize a novel plasma accelerator user facility. The laser driven approach sets requirements for a very high performance level for the laser system: pulse peak power in the petawatt range, pulse rep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Status of The Eupraxia Design Study – Towards The Next Generation of Particle Accelerators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,816 Views
5 Pages

Design and Switching Characteristics of Flip-Chip GaN Half-Bridge Modules Integrated with Drivers

  • Lin Wang,
  • Zhe Cheng,
  • Zhi-Guo Yu,
  • De-Feng Lin and ,
  • Zhe Liu,
  • Li-Fang Jia and
  • Yun Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 July 2021

Half-bridge modules with integrated GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and driver dies were designed and fabricated in this research. Our design uses flip-chip technology for fabrication, instead of more generally applied wire bonding, to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robustness and Reliability of GaN Technology in Power Switching Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,040 Views
19 Pages

Compact Design and Impact Ionization: Utilizing Small-Sized Thyristors in a 4-Stage Marx Generator

  • Alicia del Barrio Montañés,
  • Viliam Senaj,
  • Thomas Kramer,
  • Georg Müller and
  • Martin Sack

17 March 2025

In CERN’s beam transfer lines, high-voltage generators have traditionally relied on thyratron switches; however, thyratrons present operational challenges and are also becoming increasingly hard to source. To address this issue, there is a grow...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,612 Views
14 Pages

Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) is a non-invasive medical therapy that has attracted recent research interest due to its therapeutic effects. However, most LIPUS driver systems currently available are large and expensive. We have proposed a L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
20,747 Views
20 Pages

A CMOS Time-Resolved Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis Micro-System

  • Bruce R. Rae,
  • Keith R. Muir,
  • Zheng Gong,
  • Jonathan McKendry and ,
  • John M. Girkin,
  • Erdan Gu,
  • David Renshaw,
  • Martin D. Dawson and
  • Robert K. Henderson
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 November 2009

We describe a CMOS-based micro-system for time-resolved fluorescence lifetime analysis. It comprises a 16 × 4 array of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) fabricated in 0.35 μm high-voltage CMOS technology with in-pixel time-gated photon counting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Delft Workshop 2008-2009—Sensors and Imagers: a VLSI Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,909 Views
15 Pages

Three-Channel Fully Integrated Galvanic Isolation Interface in GaN Technology

  • Katia Samperi,
  • Nunzio Spina,
  • Alessandro Castorina and
  • Giuseppe Palmisano

This paper presents a three-channel galvanic isolation interface in GaN technology. Driver, diagnostic, and control channels have been implemented in a two-die integrated system to perform an isolation interface for a high-performance power switching...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,380 Views
12 Pages

16 September 2024

This paper presents a modified current-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) driver as a transmitter for short-range light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors, where a stable bias generator is suggested with a regulated cascode curren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semiconductor Lasers: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,360 Views
32 Pages

Research on a High-Frequency High-Voltage Plasma Power Supply Based on SPWM Modulation

  • Weimin Qin,
  • Kaida Cai,
  • Xiao Guo,
  • Zixiong Yan and ,
  • Minghui Yun and
  • Jing Xiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 February 2026

Plasma power supplies find extensive applications across industrial, energy, environmental, and medical domains. This study addresses limitations of conventional plasma power supplies, including high harmonic current content, neutral-point potential...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,447 Views
10 Pages

Status of the SACLA Facility

  • Makina Yabashi,
  • Hitoshi Tanaka,
  • Kensuke Tono and
  • Tetsuya Ishikawa

10 June 2017

This article reports the current status of SACLA, SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron LAser, which has been producing stable X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) light since 2012. A unique injector system and a short-period in-vacuum undulator enable...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue X-Ray Free-Electron Laser)
  • Review
  • Open Access
141 Citations
19,439 Views
30 Pages

30 January 2021

The by-products generated from the processing of fruits and vegetables (F&V) largely are underutilized and discarded as organic waste. These organic wastes that include seeds, pulp, skin, rinds, etc., are potential sources of bioactive compounds...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Extraction Technologies for Development of Functional Ingredients)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,369 Views
21 Pages

14 December 2023

In order to effectively mitigate the issue of frequent fluctuations in the output power of a PV system, this paper proposes a working mode for PV and energy storage battery integration. To address maximum power point tracking of PV cells, a fuzzy con...

(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,869 Views
16 Pages

29 December 2020

The system designed in this study involves a three-dimensional (3D) microelectronic mechanical system chip structure using DNA printing technology. We employed diverse diameters and cavity thickness for the heater. DNA beads were placed in this rapid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Printing of MEMS Technology)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,778 Views
14 Pages

Low-Jitter Clock Receivers for Fast Timing Applications

  • Carl Grace,
  • Maurice Garcia-Sciveres,
  • Timon Heim and
  • Amanda Krieger

3 April 2025

Precision timing is a key requirement for emerging 4D particle tracking, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), beam and fusion plasma diagnostics, and other systems. Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are commonly used to provide digital estimates of th...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,182 Views
16 Pages

Reliability Modelling and Evaluation for LTD System Based on Load-Sharing Model

  • Jiayun Chu,
  • Tingdi Zhao,
  • Jian Jiao,
  • Zhiwei Chen and
  • Fuchun Ren

16 December 2019

Based on power adding technology, the linear transformer driver (LTD) scheme is widely used to generate high-energy pulsed outputs and adopts a hierarchical and modular structure. Although robust design and fault analysis for basic components have be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planning, Operation, and Control of Power Systems with Large-Scale Renewable Energy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
15,987 Views
45 Pages

Electromigration (EM), current-driven atomic diffusion in interconnect metals, critically threatens integrated circuit (IC) reliability via void-induced open circuits and hillock-induced short circuits. This review examines EM’s physical mechan...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Materials, Devices and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,887 Views
17 Pages

Design and Verification of Multiphase Multilevel Traction Inverter

  • Patrik Resutík,
  • Michal Praženica and
  • Slavomír Kaščák

15 November 2024

The paper presents the practical design and implementation of a three-level neutral point clamped (TNPC) six-phase inverter rated at 100 kVA. The study initiates with prior work review, whereby most research work done earlier was mainly simulation-ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Power Electronics Converters: Design, Control and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,643 Views
15 Pages

10 April 2020

The concrete filled pultrusion-GFRP (Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer) tubular column (CFGC) is popular in hydraulic structures or regions with poor environmental conditions due to its excellent corrosion resistance. Considering the influence of concre...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,235 Views
48 Pages

26 April 2021

Continuing growth in global energy consumption and the growing concerns regarding climate change and environmental pollution are the strongest drivers of renewable energy deployment. Solar energy is the most abundant and cleanest renewable energy sou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thin Films Based on Nanocomposites)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,082 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2024

Fire risk assessment is a crucial step in effective fire control, playing an important role in reducing fire losses. It has remained a significant topic in the field of fire safety. To explore the research hotspots and frontier trends in fire risk as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fire Safety and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,600 Views
21 Pages

LiDAR is a technology that uses laser pulses to measure an object’s distance, an essential technology for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs). However, it can be affected by adverse weather environments that may reduce the safety of ADAS...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
265 Views
32 Pages

14 October 2026

Sudden medical illnesses (SMI), including myocardial infarctions and occult arrhythmias, represent a primary etiology of catastrophic motor vehicle collisions. Although consumer wearable technologies provide a non-invasive modality for continuous dri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Processing in Biomedical Devices and Sensors)