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In electrical capacitance tomography, capacitance changes are used to determine the permittivity distribution in the imaging area. However, the changes are small compared with the standing capacitances, e.g., usually in the order of 10%-30%. For a single channel capacitance sensor, a differential configuration having a redundant pair of electrodes can be used to cancel the standing capacitance. Ho...Show More
Many soft switching techniques utilize the resonance between an inductor and parasitic output capacitor of switching device. However, output capacitance has nonlinear characteristics depending on drain-source voltage which obscure the resonant period. The proposed method estimates the resonant period by linearizing output capacitance. The method can be applied to the bridge-type converter which ut...Show More
We report the investigation of negative differential resistance (NDR) in negative capacitance (NC) germanium (Ge) pFETs. The NDR in NC transistors is attributed to the coupling of drain voltage to the internal gate voltage Vint via the gate-to-drain capacitance. It is demonstrated that NDR strongly depends on the matching between the NC induced by ferroelectric capacitance CFE and the positive cap...Show More
There are few reports on the degradation phenomenon and mechanism of AlGaN/GaN heterojunction field-effect transistors (HFETs) operating at cryogenic temperature. In this paper, the off-state capacitance of AlGaN / GaN HFETs at cryogenic temperature and the room temperature was investigated. The negative differential capacitance at 77 Κ and 300 Κ is 11.26 F and 0.69 F, respectively. The capacitanc...Show More
An active realization of the large value capacitance on chip in CMOS technology is described in the paper. Thanks to the application of the regulated gain current amplifier, the resulting capacitance multiplying factor can be varied in the range of tens of picofarads to several nanofarads. The circuit designed in 0.35 mum technology is supplied with +/-1.25 V voltages, and the power consumed by th...Show More
In this work, capacitance analysis of a statistically significant sample of 30 diodes were conducted for a wide voltage range. For voltages below the built-in bulk potential, a well-known mathematical model exists. This work mainly focusses on potentials above the built-in bulk potential which is not widely understood. This was done using a direct measurement method, through the use of a Capacitan...Show More
Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) technique has been developed due to its inherent simplicity and low cost. The tomographic images are obtained based on the permittivity differences between the investigated materials and background material (air, in most cases). The dynamic range of capacitance measurements in ECT could be 40 dB or higher. Simultaneously, the changes in the measured capacita...Show More
A digital converter that directly translates variations in the capacitances of a differential-type capacitive sensor to a proportional digital value is described in this paper. A conventional dual-slope, analog-to-digital converter is suitably modified to obtain direct capacitance-to-digital conversion (CDC). Analysis of the proposed technique indicates that the effects of nonidealities and variat...Show More
This paper presents an interface circuit to measure various parameters in voltage mode by very small capacitance change in capacitive sensors. Differential capacitance comprises a capacitance-to-voltage conversion with low power, high speed and greater accuracy. Differential capacitance operation principle yields a high-precision measurement for capacitive sensors with increased signal-to-noise im...Show More
In this analysis partial finite-element discretization of the Poisson equation is implemented. The governing partial differential equation is thus reduced to a coupled set of ordinary differential equations, which is solved analytically. Formulation of the solution with this technique is more general and versatile than with the method of lines. The method of lines is derived as a special case of t...Show More
This paper presents design, development and testing of an Intel-8086 microprocessor based system for the measurement of transmission line parameters (R and X) under fault conditions. The value of R and X from relay location to fault point are required to be known in order to determine whether the fault point lies in the relay's protective zone or not. In differential equation solution based on ser...Show More
In this letter, we propose a self-differential charge-based capacitance measurement(SDCBCM) method. It is specifically applied to measure MOSFET gate capacitance with high accuracy. SDCBCM has two main advantages. First, it employs a newly proposed self-differential method to derive the capacitance-voltage (C-V) curve of gate capacitance, thus avoiding the amplification of systematic error during ...Show More
A novel capacitance to digital converter (CDC), which estimates the capa-citance of a leaky differential capacitive sensor (DCS) based on phase sensitive integration (PSI) is presented in this letter. Various methods to measure the capacitance of a leaky capacitive sensor exist, but all these methods apply to single-element capacitive sensor. Most of the techniques, which measure capacitance of a ...Show More
In this paper, the parasitics in both DM and CM inductors are first discussed. The methods for both DM and CM inductor winding capacitance cancellation are then proposed. Prototypes are designed and tested, using network analyzer. Finally, the prototypes are applied to practical power converters and EMI is measured. Both small signal measurement and practical EMI measurement prove that the propose...Show More
A single Current Feedback Operational Amplifier (CFOA), three resistors and a grounded capacitor based new grounded negative capacitance multiplier (GNCM) is presented. The multiplication factor of the presented GNCM circuit can be controlled uniquely using a resistor. Performance of the presented circuit has been validated using macromodel of CFOA AD844. Various analyses such as frequency analysi...Show More
Among electrical tomography techniques, electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) has been the subject of extensive recent research due to its non intrusive and non-invasive nature. It is used for obtaining information about the distribution of the contents of closed pipes or vessels by measuring variations in the dielectric properties of the material inside the vessel. An experimental study was con...Show More
A new and useful theory was developed to characterize switching properties of the tunnel diode. Expressions for time delay and time variance for small signals in the presence of amplitude noise were developed for the tunnel diode in the discriminator mode. The expression for time variance is used to determine the parameters of the tunnel diode, and the tunnel diode bias condition to obtain the opt...Show More
Herein, we present a floating 2-port nonreciprocal negative capacitance (NCAP) circuit that employs a unilateral gain boosting technique by including an asymmetric cross-coupled differential cascode transistor pair. The proposed circuit provides an asymmetric gain characteristic. The forward gain (S21) is increased at the cost of the backward gain (S12). The technique not only provides a boosted f...Show More
A non-contact capacitance type liquid-level transducer for a conducting liquid consists of a short circuited non-inductive coil wound on a uniform cylinder made of insulating material, such as glass, PVC, nylon, and teflon. The cylinder is connected with a storage tank through a metallic connector and the capacitance between upper short circuited end of the coil and metallic connector varies linea...Show More
Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) is a tomography based on capacitance measurement uses a capacitive sensor by injecting a square signal or a sinusoidal signal into the electrode. In measuring capacitance there are several methods including the charge injection method, the active differential method, and the RC time constant method. This paper discusses the analysis of the ability of the RC ...Show More
By combining an appropriate differential-sensing scheme with the bootstrapping technique, this paper presents a self-compensated design topology which is shown to be effective at reducing the loading effects due to the photodiode and the ESD protection circuit at the differential inputs. The built-in offset creation technique is introduced to overcome voltage headroom limitation. Furthermore, the ...Show More
Tetrapolar bioimpedance measurements on subjects have long been suspected of being affected by stray capacitance between the subjects' body and ground. This paper provides a circuit model to analyze that effect in the frequency range from 100 Hz to 1 MHz in order to identify the relevant parameters when impedance is measured by applying a voltage and measuring both the resulting current and the po...Show More
An injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) is utilized to divide the frequency of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). We propose an ILFD that can be directly connected to a VCO by minimizing the input capacitance of the input nodes. The capacitance is reduced by limiting the number of MOSFETs connected to the injection nodes. We fabricated a 54 GHz divide-by-4 ILFD using 65 nm CMOS technology...Show More
In this paper, we show a validation of our compact model for negative capacitance FET (NCFET) presented in Part I. The model is thoroughly validated with the TCAD simulations with respect to ferroelectric thickness scaling and temperature effects. Interestingly, we find that an NCFET with PZT ferroelectric of a large thickness provides a negative output differential resistance in addition to an ex...Show More
A novel nanocrystal-embedded-insulator (NEI) ferroelectric negative capacitance field-effect transistor (NCFET) is proposed and demonstrated. The NEI layer comprises orthorhombic ZrO2 nanocrystals embedded in amorphous Al2O3, as confirmed by high-resolution scanning transmission electronmicroscopy and diffraction analysis. The ferroelectric nature of NEI is proved by polarization-voltage measureme...Show More