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    Effect of Cathode Voltage Waveform on the Output Power of Magnetrons

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Zarghani, Mostafa (Author) ; Kaboli, Shahriyar (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In industial applications such as linear accelerators, pulsed lasers, nuclear fusion, radar systems, medical applications and etc. that need great ratio of instantanuse to the average power, pulsed power supplies are used. These power supplies store energy in an energy storage element and discharge this energy to load in a short period of time. The most important characterisitics of them are output pulse quality, reliability and longevity of the resource, efficiency and cost. One of the devices that produce high instantaneous RF power is magnetron tube. In some applications such as radar systems, quality of the output RF is very important and the most important factor that affect the quality... 

    Joint approximate diagonalization of eigenmatrices as a high-throughput approach for analysis of hyphenated and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatographic data

    , Article Journal of Chromatography A ; Volume 1524 , 2017 , Pages 188-201 ; 00219673 (ISSN) Zarghani, M ; Parastar, H ; Sharif University of Technology
    2017
    Abstract
    The objective of the present work is development of joint approximate diagonalization of eigenmatrices (JADE) as a member of independent component analysis (ICA) family, for the analysis of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC × GC–MS) data to address incomplete separation problem occurred during the analysis of complex sample matrices. In this regard, simulated GC–MS and GC × GC–MS data sets with different number of components, different degree of overlap and noise were evaluated. In the case of simultaneous analysis of multiple samples, column-wise augmentation for GC–MS and column-wise super-augmentation... 

    Improving the Direct Switching Method for High Voltage Applications to Improve the Load Voltage Waveform

    , Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology Zarghani, Mostafa (Author) ; Kaboli, Shahriyar (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Pulsed power supplies are used in linear accelerators, pulsed lasers, nuclear welding, radar, some medical applications, etc. which require much more instantaneous power than average power. These sources store energy in an energy storage element for a relatively long period of time and then release this energy in a short period of time. Among the most important goals pursued in these power supplies are the quality of the output pulse, the reliability and lifetime, efficiency, and cost, which depending on their application, some of these features are more important. One of the important applications of pulsed wave power supplies is their use to power microwave lamps. In some applications of... 

    A fast and series-stacked IGBT switch with balanced voltage sharing for pulsed power applications

    , Article IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science ; Volume 44, Issue 10 , 2016 , Pages 2013-2021 ; 00933813 (ISSN) Zarghani, M ; Mohsenzade, S ; Kaboli, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc  2016
    Abstract
    The series configuration of fast semiconductor switches seems to be the key component in the high-voltage and fast rising time pulse generation. In this approach, two important issues must be considered. The first is to provide a safe operating condition for the switches in transient intervals. The second is to design a gate drive system with the capability of driving a large number of discrete devices simultaneously. The aim of this paper is to obviate these two requirements. First, different factors affecting the unbalanced voltage sharing between the series switches are discussed. In this investigation, the switch-to-ground parasitic capacitance effect has been recognized as the major... 

    Development and Application of Independent Component Analysis Method for Evaluation of Complex Chromatographic Data

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Zarghani, Maryam (Author) ; Parastar Shahri, Hadi (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In recent years, chromatographic technique as one of the most important analytical techniques have been developed for the analysis of complex samples. Hyphenated chromatographic techniques such as liquid or gas chromatography combine separation and spectroscopic detection technique to exploit the advantages of both and they have attracted attention of chemists to analyze complex mixtures. However, inadequate separation challenges still exist especially in the analysis of complex samples. Therefore, two-dimensional chromatographic systems such as comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC×GC-MS) have been proposed for the analysis of complex samples due to their... 

    A series stacked IGBT switch based on a concentrated clamp mode snubber for pulsed power applications

    , Article IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ; Volume 34, Issue 10 , 2019 , Pages 9573-9584 ; 08858993 (ISSN) Zarghani, M ; Mohsenzade, S ; Kaboli, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc  2019
    Abstract
    Clamp mode snubbers are very well suited for the series structure of the insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) in pulsed power applications. They properly meet the necessities expected from them such as the fast operating of the series IGBTs since they have no effect on the gate side. In addition, they can provide safe voltage condition for the IGBTs in short circuit faults, which are very probable in pulsed applications. The clamp mode snubber can perform its voltage balancing task whenever the power capacity of the snubber can support the injected powers due to the voltage unbalancing factors. This paper initially introduces the main factors injecting power to the snubbers. Then, it... 

    An Extremely low ripple high voltage power supply for pulsed current applications

    , Article IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ; Volume 35, Issue 8 , 2020 , Pages 7991-8001 Zarghani, M ; Mohsenzade, S ; Hadizade, A ; Kaboli, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc  2020
    Abstract
    This article describes the development of an 18 kV, 30 kW power supply for a pulsed current load with the maximum current of 20 A and a di/dt equal to 100 A/μs. The achieved output ripple is less than 0.01%. In such a high level of precision, the most important issues are considerable difference between the instantaneous and average output powers, as well as insufficient reaction speed of the converter to the fast load change. Very low level of the voltage feedback and its sensitivity to the noise. The first issue necessitates a notable overdesign of the converter switches if the output voltage precision is dedicated to the converter. The second issue raises the problems relevant to... 

    Voltage balancing of series IGBTs in short-circuit conditions

    , Article IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ; Volume 37, Issue 5 , 2022 , Pages 5675-5686 ; 08858993 (ISSN) Zarghani, M ; Peyghami, S ; Iannuzzo, F ; Blaabjerg, F ; Kaboli, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc  2022
    Abstract
    This article proposes a scheme for balancing the voltage of series-connected insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), which is also very effective under short-circuit conditions. An optimized clamp-mode snubber is proposed, including an active-driver to balance the currents of the IGBTs during short-circuit, which in turn allows for a considerable reduction of the snubber capacitance. The approach is proven to be effective under short-circuit conditions by a maximum of 55 V voltage increment and a negligible difference in the current values. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through simulations in PSPICE software and experimental tests performed at 2 kV. ©... 

    Hot compressive deformation behavior of Ti-8Al-1Mo-1 V titanium alloy at elevated temperatures: Focus on flow behavior, constitutive modeling, and processing maps

    , Article Materials Today Communications ; Volume 37 , 2023 ; 23524928 (ISSN) Zarghani, F ; Ebrahimi, G. R ; Taheri, J ; Ezatpour, H. R ; Sharif University of Technology
    Elsevier Ltd  2023
    Abstract
    The deformation behavior of the near-α Ti-8Al-1Mo-1 V titanium (Ti-811) alloy was studied by isothermal compression tests in the temperature range of 950–1075 °C and strain rates of 0.001–1 s−1. According to the physical properties of titanium alloys, the effects of adiabatic heat and friction during hot deformation process were modified on the stress-strain curves, especially at low temperatures and high strain rates. The results showed that the flow stress increases with increasing the strain rate and decreases with an increase in process temperature. Hyperbolic sine (sinh) and Cingara equations were used to model the flow behavior of Ti-811 alloy at elevated temperatures. Results showed a... 

    Probability of missed detection as a criterion for receiver placement in MIMO PCL

    , Article IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings, 7 May 2012 through 11 May 2012, Atlanta, GA ; 2012 , Pages 0924-0927 ; 10975659 (ISSN) ; 9781467306584 (ISBN) Majd, M. N ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Radmard, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    IEEE  2012
    Abstract
    Using multiple antennas at the transmit and receive sides of a passive radar brings both the benefits of MIMO radar and passive radar. However one of the obstacles arisen in such configuration is the receive antennas placement in proper positions so that the radar performance is improved. Here we just consider the case of positioning one receiver among multiple illuminators of opportunity. Indeed it is a start for the solution of optimizing the geometry of the multiple receivers in a passive radar  

    An efficient method for the ring opening of epoxides with aromatic amines by Sb(III) chloride under microwave irradiation

    , Article Journal of Chemical Research ; Issue 4 , 2008 , Pages 220-221 ; 03082342 (ISSN) Ghazanfari, D ; Hashemi, M. M ; Mottaghi, M. M ; Foroughi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2008
    Abstract
    SbCl3 supported on montmorillonite K-10 is an efficient catalyst for the ring opening of epoxides with aromatic amines under solvent-free conditions and microwave irradiation to give the corresponding b-amino alcohols in high yields with high regioselectivity  

    Resource allocation for uav-enabled integrated sensing and communication (isac) via multi-objective optimization

    , Article ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings ; Volume 2023-June , 2023 ; 15206149 (ISSN); 978-172816327-7 (ISBN) Rezaei, O ; Naghsh, M. M ; Karbasi, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc  2023
    Abstract
    In this paper, we consider an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with wireless power transfer (WPT) where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based radar serves a group of energy-limited communication users in addition to its sensing functionality. In this architecture, the radar senses the environment in phase 1 (namely sensing phase) and mean-while, the communications users (nodes) harvest and store the energy from the radar transmit signal. The stored energy is then used for information transmission from the nodes to UAV in phase 2, i.e., uplink phase. Performance of the radar system depends on the transmit signal as well as the receive filter; the energy of the transmit... 

    MIMO radar signal design to improve the MIMO ambiguity function via maximizing its peak

    , Article Signal Processing ; Volume 118 , 2016 , Pages 139-152 ; 01651684 (ISSN) Chitgarha, M. M ; Radmard, M ; Nazari Majd, M ; Karbasi, S. M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    Elsevier  2016
    Abstract
    One of the important obstacles in MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) radars is the issue of designing proper transmit signals. Indeed, the capability of signal design is a significant advantage in MIMO radars, through which, the system can achieve much better performance. Many different aspects of this performance improvement have been considered yet, and the transmit signals have been designed to attain such goal, e.g., getting higher SNR or better detector's performance at the receiver. However, an important tool for evaluating the radar's performance is its ambiguity function. In this paper, we consider the problem of transmit signal design, in order to optimize the ambiguity function... 

    Detection-localization tradeoff in MIMO radars

    , Article Radioengineering ; Volume 26, Issue 2 , 2017 , Pages 581-587 ; 12102512 (ISSN) Nazari Majd, M ; Radmard, M ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Bastani, M. H ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2017
    Abstract
    Two gains play key roles in recently developed MIMO wireless communication systems: "spatial diversity" gain and "spatial multiplexing" gain. The diversity gain refers to the capability to decrease the error rate of the MIMO channel, while the multiplexing gain implicitly refers to the amount of increase in the capacity of the MIMO channel. It has been shown that there is a fundamental tradeoff between these two types of gains, meaning interplay between increasing reliability (via an increase in the diversity gain) and increasing data rate (via an increase in the multiplexing gain). On the other hand, recently, MIMO radars have attracted much attention for their superior ability to enhance... 

    Antenna placement and power allocation optimization in MIMO detection

    , Article IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; Vol. 50, Issue 2 , April , 2014 , pp. 1468-1478 Radmard, M ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Majd, M. N ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2014
    Abstract
    It is a well known fact that using multiple antennas at transmit and receive sides improves the detection performance. However, in such multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration, proper positioning of transmitters and receivers is a big challenge that can have significant influence on the performance of the overall system. In addition, determining the power of each transmitter under a total power constraint is a problem that should be solved in order to enhance the performance and coverage of such a system. In this paper, we design the Neyman-Pearson detector under the Rayleigh scatter model and use it to introduce a criterion for the antenna placement at both transmit and receive... 

    Ambiguity function of MIMO radar with widely separated antennas

    , Article Proceedings International Radar Symposium ; 16 -18 June , 2014 ; ISSN: 21555753 Radmard, M ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Nazari Majd, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2014
    Abstract
    There has been much interest, recently, towards exploiting the Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique in radar. It is shown that using multiple antennas at transmit and receive sides can improve the performance of the system. However, in order to analyze the system's performance, its ambiguity function, i.e. the ambiguity function of a MIMO radar, is needed to be defined. In this paper, beginning from the information theoretic definitions, we derive such function, specifically for a MIMO radar with widely separated antennas  

    Choosing the position of the receiver in a MISO passive radar system

    , Article European Microwave Week 2012: "Space for Microwaves", EuMW 2012, Conference Proceedings - 9th European Radar Conference, EuRAD 2012 ; 2012 , Pages 318-321 ; 9782874870293 (ISBN) Chitgarha, M. M ; Majd, M. N ; Radmard, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2012
    Abstract
    By combining the two ideas of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) and PCL (Passive Coherent Location) in radar, one can achieve the advantages of both recently developed techniques simultaneously. While using multiple antennas at the receive side provides a spatial diversity of the object to be detected, using multiple illuminators of opportunity, most importantly, makes the radar covert to the interceptors. One obstacle in such MIMO configuration is choosing the positions of the receive antennas. In this paper, after analyzing the Neyman-Pearson detector for the DVB-T based PCL, we introduce the probability of missed detection as a criterion to place the receive antenna. Here, we only... 

    Adaptive filtering techniques in passive radar

    , Article Proceedings International Radar Symposium, Dresden ; Volume 2 , June , 2013 , Pages 1067-1078 ; 21555753 (ISSN) ; 9783954042234 (ISBN) Chitgarha, M. M ; Radmard, M ; Majd, M. N ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2013
    Abstract
    One of the most important obstacles in passive radar applications is removing the direct signal from the target channel. Otherwise, week echoes from the targets in the target channel would be ignored due to the limited dynamic range of the system. One of the most effective techniques in this field is using adaptive filters. In this paper various adaptive filters are introduced and their performances are shown and compared  

    Ambiguity function based receiver placement in multi-site radar

    , Article 2016 CIE International Conference on Radar, RADAR 2016, 10 October 2016 through 13 October 2016 ; 2017 ; 9781509048281 (ISBN) Radmard, M ; Chitgarha, M. M ; Nazari Majd, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2017
    Abstract
    It has been shown that using multiple antennas in a radar system improves the performance considerably, since multiple target echoes are received from different aspect angles of the target. In this way, the target detection is improved. However, when using multiple antennas, some problems, such as designing the transmit signals, synchronization, etc. emerge that should be solved. One of such problems is the receiver placement. Receiver placement deals with choosing a proper position for the receive antenna in order to optimize the whole system's performance. In this paper, a receiver placement procedure based on improving the radar ambiguity function is proposed for the case of a multisite... 

    Improving MIMO radar's performance through receivers' positioning

    , Article IET Signal Processing ; Volume 11, Issue 5 , 2017 , Pages 622-630 ; 17519675 (ISSN) Chitgarha, M. M ; Radmard, M ; Nazari Majd, M ; Nayebi, M. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institution of Engineering and Technology  2017
    Abstract
    By employing the MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) technology in radar, some new problems emerged, that, in order to benefit the MIMO gains in radar, it was necessary to solve them suitably. One of such obstacles is determining the positions of receive antennas in a MIMO radar system with widely separated antennas (WS MIMO radar), since it is shown that the antennas' positions affect the whole system's performance considerably. In this study, a proper receivers' positioning procedure is proposed. To do this end, four criteria are developed based on the proposed MIMO detector and the MIMO ambiguity function. The simulations verify that the proposed positioning procedure improves the...