power electronics

Single Cell Boost Converter Circuit using Coin Cell – 5V Output 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…

Understanding Power Factor and How It Affects your Energy Bills 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…

Current Regulators Construction, Working and Design Types 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…

Current Mirror Circuit: Wilson and Widlar Current Mirroring Techniques 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…

How to make a Supercapacitor Charger Circuit 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…

Single-Stage, High Power Factor LED Driver-Controller with Mixed-Mode Dimming 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…

Current Mirror Circuit 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…

Sziklai Transistor Pair Sziklai Transistor Pair

Sziklai Transistor Pair was first designed by George Sziklai to overcome some efficiency related issues with Darlington pair,…

Charge Pump Circuit- Getting Higher Voltage from Low Voltage Source 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…

Simple Wireless Power Transmission Circuit to glow an LED 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…