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At National Institute of Metrological Research (INRIM), a selectable-value Transportable High dcVoltage Standard (THVS) operating in the range from 10 V to 100 V in steps of 10 V, was developed. This Standard was built to cover the lack of…
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Flexible transmission line impedances on one hand are a promising control resource for facilitating grid flexibility, but on the other hand add much complexity to the concerned optimization problems. This paper develops a convexification…
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A class of Actively Calibrated Line Mounted Capacitive Voltage Transducers (LMCVT) are introduced as a viable line mountable instrumentation option for deploying large numbers of voltage transducers onto the medium and high voltage systems.…
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A MOSFET threshold voltage extraction method covering the entire range of drain-to-source voltage, from linear to saturation modes, is presented. Transconductance-to-current ratio is obtained from MOSFET transfer characteristics measured at…
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