power electronics
Single Cell Boost Converter Circuit using Coin Cell – 5V Output
Battery cells are the most commonly used energy source to power portable electronics. Be it a simple alarm clock or an IoT… |
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Understanding Power Factor and How It Affects your Energy Bills
Aside from safety and reliability, several other goals including efficiency should be pursued in the design and implementation… |
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Current Regulators: Construction, Working and Design Types
Just like situations in which we need to regulate the voltage in our designs, there are scenarios where we need to regulate the… |
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Current Mirror Circuit: Wilson and Widlar Current Mirroring Techniques
In the previous article, we discussed about Current Mirror Circuit and how it can be built using Transistor and MOSFET. Despite… |
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How to make a Supercapacitor Charger Circuit
The term Supercapacitors and its possible usage in Electric Vehicles, Smartphone’s and IoT devices are being considered… |
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Single-Stage, High Power Factor LED Driver-Controller with Mixed-Mode Dimming
Diodes Incorporated released AL1665 single-stage, fly-back and buck-boost controller for commercial, connected, and dimmable… |
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Current Mirror Circuit (Part 1): Introduction, Characteristics and Construction
The Current Mirror is a widely popular technique for monolithic IC design. In this technique, the circuit is designed in such a… |
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Sziklai Transistor Pair
Sziklai Transistor Pair was first designed by George Sziklai to overcome some efficiency related issues with Darlington pair,… |
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Charge Pump Circuit - Getting Higher Voltage from Low Voltage Source
The situation is simple – you have a low voltage supply rail, say 3.3V, and you want to power something that needs 5V. This is… |
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Simple Wireless Power Transmission Circuit to Glow an LED
The Wireless Electricity Transfer concept is not new. It was first demonstrated by Nikola Tesla in the year 1890. Nikola Tesla… |