高电压宽范围输入低电压输出的DC-DC辅助电源设计

高电压宽范围输入的DC-DC辅助电源技术是中高压、大容量电力电子变流系统的关键辅助技术。基于双管反激电路,本文设计了一个高电压宽范围300~2 500V输入,低电压24V输出的DC-DC辅助电源样机,并给出了电源详细的设计方案。相比传统辅助电源,设计的辅助电源启动支路在电源工作后可自动断开,实现了电源输入电压范围更宽目标;电源主电路由变压器隔离,控制、反馈电路由辅助绕组供电,确保了电源输入/输出高电压隔离;开关管驱动电路采用带耦合电感的脉冲变压器,满足了驱动信号高压隔离和同步驱动要求。此外,计算电源效率的结果表明,双管反激辅助电源更适合高电压输入场合。最后,进行了相关实验,结果验证了所设计的高电压宽范围输入的DC-DC辅助电源方案可行性和正确性。     

Optical receiver front end for optically powered smart dust

The ability to create and direct beams of light means that optical communications potentially offer a large power advantage over RF communications for sensor networks. This paper presents an optically powered receiver front end for wireless optical communications. A complete optical receiver front end including a photodetector, clock and Manchester data recovery circuits has been fabricated using the UMC 180 nm CMOS process. A novel modulation scheme is described that has been devised so that this front end can recover the clock and Manchester data from an optical beam. Experimental results show that the total current consumption of the optical receiver front end is as low as 18.8 nA for a 0.5 V supply when a 1 kbps Manchester data and 8 kHz clock signal are successfully recovered. This means that photodiodes on the same substrate as the front end circuits extract enough power from the communications beam to allow the front end to work at distances of up to 10 m from the transmitter. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A power‐area‐efficient, 3‐band, 2‐RX MIMO,TD‐LTE receiver with direct‐coupled ADC

In this work, a power‐area‐efficient, 3‐band, 2‐RX MIMO, and TD‐LTE (backward compatible with the HSPA+, HSUPA, HSDPA, and TD‐SCDMA) CMOS receiver is presented and implemented in 0.13‐μm CMOS technology. The continuous‐time delta‐sigma A/D converters (CT ?Σ ADCs) are directly coupled to the outputs of the transimpedance amplifiers, eliminating the need of analog anti‐aliasing filters between RX front‐end and ADCs in conventional structures. The strong adjacent channel interference without low‐pass filter attenuation is handled by proper gain control. A low‐power small‐area solution for excess loop delay compensation is implemented in the CT ?Σ ADC. At 20 MHz bandwidth, the CT ?Σ ADC achieves 66 dB dynamic range and 3.5 dB RX chip noise figure is measured. A maximum of 2.4 dB signal‐to‐noise ratio degradation is measured in all the adjacent channel selectivity (ACS) and blocking tests, demonstrating the effectiveness of the strategy against the low‐pass filter removal from the conventional architecture. The receiver dissipates a maximum of 171 mW at 2‐RX MIMO mode. To our best knowledge, it is the first research paper on the design of fully integrated commercial TD‐LTE receiver. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A 40 M–1000 MHz 77.2‐dB spurious free dynamic range CMOS RF variable gain amplifier for digital TV tuner ICs

In this paper, a 40 M–1000 MHz 77.2‐dB spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) CMOS RF variable gain amplifier (VGA) has been presented for digital TV tuner applications. The proposed RFVGA adopts a wideband operational‐amplifier‐based VGA and a wideband buffer with differential multiple gated transistor linearization method for wideband operation and high linearity. The SFDR of the proposed RFVGA is also analyzed in detail. Fabricated in a 0.13‐µm CMOS process, the RFVGA provides 31‐dB gain range with 1‐dB gain step, a minimum noise figure of 7.5 dB at a maximum gain of 27 dB, and maximum in‐band output‐referred third‐order intercept point of 27.7 dBm, while drawing an average current of 27.8 mA with a supply voltage of 3.3 V. The chip core area is 0.54 mm × 0.4 mm. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Single transistor high linearity and wide dynamic range active inductor

In this paper, an active inductor (AI) with high linearity and high dynamic range, including a minimum number of components, is presented. The AI is composed by a single transistor, and by a passive compensation network; the latter allows the control of the values of both the inductance and the series resistance. In order to show the feasibility of the proposed AI for filter applications, a prototype board on a TLX8 substrate with a first‐order active band‐pass filter has been fabricated and tested. The filter has a center frequency of 2470 MHz (useful for Bluetooth applications) and a measured noise figure (NF) of 9 dB with a ?5 dBm P₁dB compression point, and a 75 dB dynamic range. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

DEM‐CFD modeling of particle systems with long‐range electrostatic interactions

To investigate dynamic behaviors of monocharged particle systems, a direct truncation (DT) method and a hybrid particle‐cell (HPC) method are implemented into the discrete element method coupled with computational fluid dynamics (DEM‐CFD) with defined cutoff distances. The DT method only considers electrostatic interactions between particles within the cutoff distance while the HPC method computes electrostatic interactions in the entire computational domain. The deposition process of monocharged particles in a container in air was simulated using the developed DEM‐CFD. It was found that using the DT method, the macrostructure, evolution of granular temperature, and radial distribution function of the particle system were sensitive to the specified cutoff distance. In contrast, using the HPC method, these results were independent of the specified cutoff distance, as expected. This implies that, although electrostatic interactions between particles with large separation distances are weak, they should be considered in DEM‐CFD for accurate modeling of charged particle systems. © 2015 The Authors AIChE Journal published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 61: 1792–1803, 2015     

塔式太阳能热板式吸热器内部支撑结构的热应力分析

基于顺序耦合的有限元计算方法对塔式太阳能热板式吸热器结构的热应力进行模拟,发现内部拉杆和受光板连接处周围出现热应力集中,是影响结构稳定的危险区。当增大拉杆的外径时,危险处的局部热应力只是很小程度的减小;随着拉杆内径的增加,局部热应力也会增加,但是热应力的整体分布变得更加均匀化;当冷凝板的温度增大时,局部热应力明显减小,而且整体热应力的分布更加均匀化。通过热应力分析得到拉杆的外径为20mm,内径为12mm,整个吸热内部取16根拉杆时,受光板上的热应力最大值为23.61MPa;310s材料800℃的许用应力为8MPa,使用时可满足安定性准则。     

双法兰差压液位变送器与浮筒液位计的比较

从测量原理、零点与量程的计算方法、测量精度、测量稳定性、价格及维护成本等方面对双法兰差压液位变送器与浮筒液位计进行了比较。结果表明:除了双法兰差压液位变送器的适用介质温度范围小于浮筒液位计外,在测量精度、测量范围、稳定性、调校方法及价格等方面均优于浮筒液位计。而且,在一定的测量范围内,可以用双法兰差压液位变送器替代浮筒液位计获得被测容器的真实液位。     

不同地形条件下架空配电线路防雷方案研究

作为供电系统当中的电能分配的关键设备,架空配电线路的安全与稳定直接影响着整个供电系统的正常运行。雷电灾害是架空配电线路当中频繁遇到的一种自然灾害,因此线路的防雷工作十分重要。本文在对架空配电线路的引雷范围、雷击跳闸率计算的分析基础上,探讨其在不同地形条件下的防雷方案。     

第三代红外焦平面探测器读出电路

对红外探测器不断增长和提高的需求催生了第三代红外焦平面探测器技术。根据第三代红外探测器的概念,像素达到百万级,热灵敏度NETD达到1 m K量级是第三代制冷型高性能红外焦平面探测器的基本特征。计算结果表明读出电路需要达到1000 Me-以上的电荷处理能力和100 d B左右的动态范围(Dynamic Range)才能满足上述第三代红外焦平面探测器需求。提出在像素内进行数字积分技术,以期突破传统模拟读出电路的电荷存储量和动态范围瓶颈限制,使高空间分辨率、高温度分辨率及高帧频的第三代高性能制冷型红外焦平面探测器得到实现。