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Continuously Variable Series Reactor (CVSR) has the ability to regulate the reactance of an ac circuit using the magnetizing characteristics of its ferromagnetic core, shared by an ac and a dc winding to control power flow, damp…
A nematic liquid-crystal cell subject to an electric field created by electrodes held at constant potential is modeled as a variable capacitor in an RC circuit. The state of the system is characterized in terms of the director field in the…
Continuously Variable Series Reactor (CVSR) can regulate its reactance on the ac side using the nonlinear ferromagnetic core, shared by an ac and a dc winding for applications like power flow control, oscillation damping, load balancing and…
A dc voltage induced by an external ac current is observed in system of asymmetric mesoscopic superconducting loops. The value and sign of this dc voltage, like the one of the persistent current, depend in a periodical way on a magnetic…
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Capacitors are typically connected together in one of two configurations: either in series, or in parallel. Here we study a capacitor-within-capacitor (CWC). Simulations and experiments indicate that the overall capacitance of the…
The constant phase element (CPE) with a frequency-independent negative phase between current and voltage is used extensively in e.g. the bioimpedance and electrochemistry fields. Its physical meaning is only partially understood. Here we…
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We examine the concept of universal quantized resistance in the AC regime through the fully coherent quantum RC circuit comprising a cavity (dot) capacitively coupled to a gate and connected via a single spin-polarized channel to a…
Simple, portable and low-cost experiments as RC and RL series circuits are proposed to experiment with DC circuits. Very common elements are used: a few electronics components (resistors, capacitors, coils and connecting wires) and two…
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The decay of the electrical energy in a resistor-vacuum capacitor circuit is shown to involve multiple relaxation processes, with dramatically different time constants. This is measured using a vacuum capacitor to eliminate the effect of a…
Most capacitors do not satisfy the conventional assumption of a constant capacitance. They exhibit memory which is often described by a time-varying capacitance. It is shown that the classical relation, $Q\left(t\right)=CV\left(t\right)$,…
We present a simple nonlinear resonant analog circuit which demonstrates quantization of resonating amplitudes, for a given excitation level. The system is a simple RLC resonator where C is an active capacitor whose value is related to the…
The dielectric response of complex materials is characterized, in many cases, by a similar power law frequency dependence of both the real and the imaginary parts of their complex dielectric constants. In the admittance representation, this…
The linear ac response of the vortex system is measured locally in Bi-2212 single crystals at various doping, using a miniature two-coil mutual-inductance technique. It was found that a step-like change in the local ac response takes place…
We review the first experiment on dynamic transport in a phase-coherent quantum conductor. In our discussion, we highlight the use of time-dependent transport as a means of gaining insight into charge relaxation on a mesoscopic scale. For…
It is generally believed that, at a certain temperature below the critical one, magnetic response of a superconductor (SC) is determined solely by its intrinsic properties. Here we show that the mechanical rotation of a SC can easily change…
The capacitance matrix relates potentials and charges on a system of conductors. We review and rigorously generalize its properties, block-diagonal structure and inequalities, deduced from the geometry of system of conductors and analytic…