Mode converter

Figure 1 shows the ultrasonic testing configuration used for detecting OSD. The ultrasonic focused probe is placed at an angle (18.9°) such that OSD are insonified by mode converted 45° shear waves. 

Figure 3-1 A basic forward-mode converter (buck converter shown).

The second family of converters are the boost-mode converters. The most elementary boost-mode (or boost-derived) converter can be seen in Figure 3-3. It is called a boost converter. 

As one can notice, the boost-mode converter has the same parts as the forward-mode converter, but they have been rearranged. This new arrangement causes the converter to operate in a completely different fashion than the forward-mode converter. This time, when the power switch is turned on, a current loop is created that only includes the inductor, the power switch, and the input voltage source. The diode is reverse-biased during this period. The inductor s current waveform (Figure 3-4) is also a positive linear ramp and is described by... 

Figure 3-28 Output stages for forward and boost-mode converters (a) balf-wave forwardmode (b) center-tapped forward-mode (c) full-wave bridge forward-mode (d) boost-mode.

The output filter converts the rectified rectangular ac waveform into the dc output. Forward-mode converters have a two-pole L-C filter which produces the dc average of the rectified rectangular waveform. Boost-mode converters have a single-pole, capacitive input filter which produces a dc voltage which is the peak voltage of the rectified waveform. Both are reactive impedance filters and exliibit very little loss. 

Designing the output filter choke La) in a forward-mode converter is done first. This simple procedure can be seen in Section 3.5.5. A key design factor is to design the inductor to operate in the continuous current mode. The typical value of peak inductor current is 150 percent of the rated output current. The typical valley (minimum) current is about 50 percent of the rated output current. 

Id. For flyback-mode converters it is a good idea to select a power switch average current rating of about 1.5 times the maximum average input current of the supply. Another consideration is the loss. By overspecifying the current the /2i DS(on) loss (conduction loss) can be reduced with very little penalty on cost and input capacitance. 

As seen in Section 4.1, the major types of losses are the conduction and switching losses. Conduction losses are addressed by selecting a better power switch or rectifier with a lower conduction voltage. The synchronous rectifier can be used to reduce the conduction loss of a rectifier, but it can only be used for forward-mode topologies, and excludes the discontinuous boost-mode converters. The synchronous rectifier will improve the efficiency of a power supply about one to six percent depending upon the average operating duty cycle of the supply. For further improvements, other techniques must be pursued. 

Continuous-mode converters, both forward and boost, suffer from one common problem. The output rectifiers have forward current flowing through them just... 

As one can see, there is the familiar choke input filter (T-C) on the output, which is characteristic of the buck and all forward-mode converters. The configuration shown in Figure 4—10 is called a parallel resonant topology because the load impedance (the T-C filter acting as a damping impedance) is placed in parallel to the resonant capacitor. The input to the T-C filter stage... 

The control-to-output characteristic curves for a current-mode controlled flyback-mode converter, even though it is operating in variable frequency, are of a single-pole nature. So a single pole-zero method of compensation should be used. The placement of the filter pole, ESR zero, and dc gain are... 

B.2.1 The Voltage-mode Controlled Forward-mode Converter... 

B.2.2 Voltage-mode Controlled Flyback Converter and Current-mode Controlled Forward-mode Converter Control-to-Output Characteristics... 

The operation of a discontinuous-mode, flyback converter is quite different from that of a forward-mode converter, and likewise their control-to-output characteristics are very different. The topologies that fall into this category of control-to-output characteristics are the boost, buck/boost, and the flyback. The forward and flyback-mode converters operating under current-mode control also fall into this category. Only their dc value is determined differently. Their representative circuit diagram is given in Figure B-12. 

The current-mode controlled forward-mode converter exliibits the same dc gain as the voltage-mode controlled forward converter, as shown in Equation B.6. 

Figure B-11 The control-to-output curve for a forward-mode converter with voltage-mode control.

Isotopes that are neutron-rich, that have too many neutrons or not enough protons, lie above the belt of stability and tend to undergo beta emission because that decay mode converts a neutron into a proton. 

Figure 4. (a) Design of an SOI two level taper leading to a waveguide aperture in the microspectrometer, and the corresponding mode size at the indicated positions, (b) An SEM view of the fabricated mode converters. 

The parameters rp and 7J2 are linear combinations of the magnetic modes converted on the representation T5. The fact that below TN the magnetic subsystem of copper metaborate forms an easy-plane weak ferromagnet, twisted below 7] in a spiral, permits to compose rp as a combination of the ferromagnetic modes (1) and (3), and tj2 as a combination of the antiferromagnetic modes (2) and (4). Accordingly II = (Hn, Hn) = (Hx, -Hy). It is necessary to note that in the thermodynamic potential given by Eq. (5) the order parameter responsible for the transition at 7] is not chosen in an explicit form as it was done in our previous paper [8],... 

Calculated Power and Efficiency. The simplified analytical models of thermionic characteristics have been used to project the converter efficiency and power density with the barrier index as a parameter. These projections are shown in Figures 8 and 9 as functions of the emitter temperature. The dashed lines in these two figures are for a constant current density of 10 A/cm. If the current density is adjusted to maximize the efficiency at each temperature, the calculated performance is represented by the solid lines. Typical present generation themionlc converters operate with Vg near 2.0. Ignited mode converters in laboratory experiments have demonstrated practical operation with 1.85 < Vg < 1.90. Other laboratory devices with auxiliary sources of ions and/or special electrode surfaces have achieved Vj < 1.5, but usually not under practical operating conditions. 

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