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The memristor, because of its controllability over a wide dynamic range of resistance, has emerged as a promising device for data storage and analog computation. A major challenge is the accurate measurement of memristance over a wide…

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Various applications of quantum devices call for an accurate calibration of cryogenic amplification chains. To this end, we present a convenient calibration scheme and use it to accurately measure the total gain and noise temperature of an…

Electron pumps generate a macroscopic electric current by controlled manipulation of single electrons. Despite intensive research towards a quantum current standard over the last 25 years, making a fast and accurate quantised electron pump…

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In railway applications, it is common to use an LC filter connected between the catenary and the input port of the main converter of the auxiliary and traction systems. In addition, in the auxiliary systems, there is a converter operating…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Diego Ochoa , Antonio Lazaro , Pablo Zumel , Cristina Fernandez , Marina Sanz , Jorge Rodriguez , Andres Barrado

We discuss an effect of dc current and dc voltage (stopping bias) generation in a semiconductor superlattice subjected by an ac electric field and its phase-shifted n-th harmonic. In the low field limit, we find a simple dependence of dc…

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MALTA2 is a depleted monolithic active pixel sensor (DMAPS) designed for tracking at high rates and typically low detection threshold of $\sim150\,\mathrm{e^-}$. A precise knowledge of the threshold is crucial to understanding the charge…

This paper presents a differential 10-bit 2 MS/s successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a precision-improvement technique. The proposed method breaks the direct tradeoff between the capacitive…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Yi Zhang

DC microgrids provide an efficient framework for the interconnection of DC distributed energy resources (DERs) and DC loads. To continue to supply legacy single-phase AC loads, DC/AC converters can be integrated in the DC microgrid. The…

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A high-precision charge measurement can be achieved by the area integration of a digitized quasi-Gaussian signal after the signal passes through the shaper and analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The charge measurement contains an error due…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-26 Jiajin Zhang , Lei Zhao , Ruoshi Dong , Peipei Deng , Cong Ma , Jiaming Lu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

An interlaboratory comparison of small-current generation and measurement capability is presented with the ultrastable low-noise current amplifier (ULCA) acting as travelling standard. Various measurements at direct currents between 0.16 nA…

Ionization chambers are essential for activity determinations in radionuclide metrology. We have developed a high-precision integrating-differentiating (int-diff) system for measuring small currents. It is anticipated to enhance the…

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The state of charge (SoC) and the rate of charging/discharging current are the vital parameters associated with a battery by which its accurate runtime can be estimated. This paper aims to design a controller which comprises of a…

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The Self-Excited Loop (SEL) architecture, used in some continuous-wave (CW) superconducting linacs, relies on a positive feedback mechanism that requires carefully defined operating limits to ensure stable operation. These limits are…

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We compared the performance of a commercial ammeter and a home-made integrating electrometer in reading ionisation chamber currents less than 100 pA. The integrating electrometer charges a capacitor with the unknown current and measures the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-08 Stephen P. Giblin , Giuseppe Lorusso

A charging system is required to convert ac electricity from the grid to dc electricity to charge an electric vehicle (EV) battery. According to the Society of Automatic Engineers (SAE) standard, EV chargers can be divided into three levels…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Li Bao , Lingling Fan , Zhixin Miao

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 S. V. Dubonos , V. I. Kuznetsov , I. N. Zhilyaev , A. V. Nikulov , A. A. Firsov

To test and calibrate various detectors in nuclear and high energy physics experiments, a general purposed calibration instrument has been developed. All information including timing, amplitude and charge of signals can be directly obtained…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-26 Zhe Cao , Jiadong Hu , Cheng Li , Shubin Liu , Qi An

Accurate measurements of alternating current (AC) and direct current(DC) ratios are fundamental to electric power metrology. However, conventional current comparators for AC and DC typically rely on distinct technologies-electromagnetic…

Three-phase AC-DC rectifiers are fundamental components in modern power electronics systems, yet achieving rapid voltage regulation and precise current tracking under load and grid disturbances remains challenging due to nonlinear dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Koto Omiloli , Satish Vedula , Ayobami Olajube , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

High current bright sources are needed to power the next generation of compact rf and microwave systems. A major requirement is that such a source could be sustainably operated at high frequencies, well above 1 GHz, and high gradients, well…