基于QN旋转布局的10位500 MS/s分段电流舵DAC

针对分段电流舵数/模转换器（Digital-to-Analog Converter，DAC），通过理论分析和推导，研究电流源阵列系统失配误差和寄生效应对非线性的影响，采用电流源阵列Q^N旋转游走版图布局方案，能够减小电流源系统失配的一次误差，而且版图布线简单，由寄生效应引起的电流源失配较小，利于DAC非线性的优化.基于0.18μm CMOS，采用"6+4"的分段结构，设计了一种10位500MS/s分段电流舵DAC，流片测试结果表明，在输入频率为1.465MHz，采样速率为500MS/s的条件下，无杂散动态范围（Spurious Free Dynamic Range，SFDR）为64.9dB，有效位数（Effective Number of Bits，ENOB）为8.8 bit，微分非线性误差（Differential Non-linearity，DNL）和积分非线性误差（Integral Non-linearity，INL）分别为0.77LSB和1.12LSB.     

主变压器低压侧10 kV相间短路故障分析及短路电流抑制

深入分析了氯碱化工企业10kV电力系统相间短路故障原因,并提出了抑制短路电流的措施,有效解决了因相间短路故障导致的大面积停电事故和变压器烧毁事故等疑难问题。     

基于MCS-51单片机的数控恒流源设计

为了克服传统恒流源无法实现精确步进的缺点，设计了基于MCS-51单片机的数控恒流源。系统由压控恒流单元、数控单元、稳压电源等几部分组成。分析了工作原理，并给出了硬件和软件的具体实现方法。测量结果表明，该设计具有控制精度高、纹波电流小、工作稳定等优点，有很强的实用性，对相关产品的研制有重要的指导意义。     

Space charge limitation on the response time of organic photodiodes

The dynamic response of an organic bulk heterojunction photodiode to small changes in applied bias or light intensity is investigated as function of the intensity of a constant background illumination by means of photoimpedance and transient photocurrent measurements. For bias voltages close to the open circuit voltage we find that the response timescale with the square root of the light intensity. The results can be quantitatively explained in terms of a space charge limitation on the photocurrent as predicted by Goodman and Rose (J. Appl. Phys. 42, 2823 (1971)). The relaxation time of the diode at open circuit corresponds to the lifetime of the slowest charge carrier in the diode. This relaxation time is determined by the dielectric constant and the smallest of the two carrier mobilities in the bulk heterojunction. This illustrates the importance of balanced carrier mobilities for obtaining diodes with fast response time at low bias for e.g. imaging arrays.     

Suppressed atomic diffusion in flash sintering of bismuth telluride

Bi₂Te₃ materials were synthesised by the recently developed flash sintering (FS) method, and the rapid densification effect was studied. Whereas a fully densified sample can be obtained with a feeding current of 1.2 kA for 1 s, the limited heating effect reduces grain growth and atomic diffusion. Interestingly, the significant chemical reaction suppression with oxygen contaminants, which induces electron doping, has a meaningful electronic properties impact. The large negative Seebeck coefficient of ? 138.9 μV/K in the sample prepared by conventional current sintering of 773 K for 3 min, in which the oxygen diffuses into the Bi₂Te₃ phase, is significantly reduced to ? 8.5 μV/K in the FS sample, much closer to the intrinsic p-type conduction in Bi₂Te₃ raw powder. These results suggest that the limited FS heating effect may contribute to preserving the intrinsic raw powder properties in the sintered material by avoiding excess atomic diffusion and undesirable reactions.     

Inrush current estimation and hot-swapping for safe parallel battery pack

ABSTRACT

Batteries used in electric vehicles and microgrid applications use battery modules connected in series to satisfy the voltage required for each system, and battery modules are connected in parallel to increase capacity. In this parallel connected system, in order to disconnect and reconnect a specific battery module or to reconnect a new battery module, the battery module to be newly connected should have a small state of charge (SOC) difference from the existing battery modules. In particular, when a new battery is to be connected under a load current, there is a problem that excessive inrush current may occur in a specific battery module due to the load current distributed to each module and the current due to the SOC difference. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method of estimating the inrush current through an equivalent electrical modelling analysis for the case where a battery module is newly added in a system in which the battery modules are connected in parallel. In addition, the power management algorithm for the battery pack system with inrush current estimation is presented. The proposed method is validated through simulations and experiments of a battery pack system in which 10 battery modules of 710V and 120Ah are connected in parallel.     

Direct model-based predictive control scheme without cost function for voltage source inverters with reduced common-mode voltage

This paper presents a direct model-based predictive control scheme for voltage source inverters (VSIs) with reduced common-mode voltages (CMVs). The developed method directly finds optimal vectors without using repetitive calculation of a cost function. To adjust output currents with the CMVs in the range of –V_dc/6 to +V_dc/6, the developed method uses voltage vectors, as finite control resources, excluding zero voltage vectors which produce the CMVs in the VSI within ±V_dc/2. In a model-based predictive control (MPC), not using zero voltage vectors increases the output current ripples and the current errors. To alleviate these problems, the developed method uses two non-zero voltage vectors in one sampling step. In addition, the voltage vectors scheduled to be used are directly selected at every sampling step once the developed method calculates the future reference voltage vector, saving the efforts of repeatedly calculating the cost function. And the two non-zero voltage vectors are optimally allocated to make the output current approach the reference current as close as possible. Thus, low CMV, rapid current-following capability and sufficient output current ripple performance are attained by the developed method. The results of a simulation and an experiment verify the effectiveness of the developed method.     

Nickel hydroxide armour promoted CoP nanowires for alkaline hydrogen evolution at large current density

The development of hydrogen evolution activity (HER) electrocatalyst that can run durably and efficiently under the large current density is of special significance but still challengeable for the massive production of hydrogen. Herein, a CoP/Ni(OH)₂ nanowire catalysts grown on Co foam (CF) with a three-dimensional heterojunction structure has been successfully prepared by electrodepositing nickel hydroxide on the surface of cobalt phosphide. The prepared CoP/Ni(OH)₂–15 min sample reveals a superior HER activity and stability. It merely requires ultralow overpotentials of 108 and 175 mV to 100 and 500 mA cm^?2, respectively. In addition, the long-term stability test shows that the catalyst (CoP/Ni(OH)₂–15 min) can operate stably for at least 70 h at 400 mA cm^?2. Utilizing NiFe-LDH/IF with high OER activity, the NiFe-LDH/IF || CoP/Ni(OH)₂–15 min catalyst system possesses the same outstanding performance for overall water splitting (OWS), which can accomplish ≈ 500 mA cm^?2 at 1.74 V in 1 M KOH electrolyte. Moreover, the NiFe-LDH/IF || CoP/Ni(OH)₂–15 min couple can work for more than 80 h at 500 mA cm^?2, indicating its a great prospect in the area of electrolysis water. Such excellent catalytic performance is mainly attributed to the armor effect of Ni(OH)₂, which can not only promote the rapid decomposition of water molecules, but also prevent the loss of phosphorus and enhance the synergistic effect of CoP and Ni(OH)₂. This work can offer a significant reference for the design with high-performance and durable transition metal phosphide electrocatalysts.     

Eddy Current Detection of Retained Austenite in Ni-Hard4 Cast Iron

In this article, the nondestructive eddy current (EC) method was used for microstructural evaluation of Ni-hard4 cast iron (NiHCI). Different destabilizing heat treatments were used to produce different microstructures and hardness. The microstructural analysis and hardness measurement were done for conventional characterization of the reference blocks. Then, the EC techniques were applied to evaluate the hardness and microstructural changes by the detection of EC parameters at different frequencies. Metallurgical investigations showed that increasing the destabilizing soaking time and temperature decreases the amount of retained austenite in NiHCIs. The nondestructive evaluation method (NDT) revealed that it can be good correlated between retained austenite amount and hardness with EC parameters. This shows that the EC technique can detect NiHCIs products according to the metallurgical characterization with good accuracy.