Ghahderijani, Mohammad Moradi (Date of defense: 2018-10-09)
This thesis focuses on the control methods applied to current source resonant converters, especially in two different applications of switching power supplies and wire-less power transfer systems. In ...
Escudero López, Manuel (Date of defense: 2020-05-22)
In the last decades, semiconductor industry has fostered a fast downscale in technology, propelling the large scale integration of CMOS-based systems. The benefits in miniaturization are numerous, ...
Momeneh, Arash (Date of defense: 2016-09-09)
In recent years, contactless energy transfer systems have been developed and investigated widely. As evident, the transfer energy is performed without physical connection. This technology is classified ...
Filbà Martínez, Àlber (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Galvanically-isolated bidirectional dc-dc converters (IBDCs) have recently received more attention due to its increasing use in systems requiring energy transfer between two dc networks in both directions, ...
Ahmadi Zeidabadi, Maziar (Date of defense: 2016-07-20)
The interest on microfluidic systems based on electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) and the miniaturization of such integrated devices, has increased significantly mainly due to the advent of mass market ...
Caballero Diaz, Luis (Date of defense: 2017-06-16)
The demand of wind energy has considerably increased during the last decades. In order to fulfil this great energy demand, wind energy conversion systems (WECS) are designed to manage higher power ...
Sánchez Chiva, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-05)
In the last decades, sensing capabilities of martphones have greatly improved since the early mobile phones of the 90’s. Moreover, wearables and the automotive industry require increasing electronics ...
Bou Balust, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
Resonant Inductive Coupling Wireless Power Transfer (RIC-WPT) has been proven to provide very high power transfer efficiencies (above 80%) for moderate distances, and is hence foreseen as a key technology ...
Trulls Fortuny, Xavier (Date of defense: 2012-07-06)
System-on-Chip (SoC) was adopted in recent years as one of the solutions to reduce the cost of integrated systems. When the SoC solution started to be used, the final product was actually more expensive ...
Paredes Camacho, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
The trend in the development of power converters is focused on efficient systems with high power density, reliability and low cost. The challenges to cover the new power converters requirements are ...