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Electronics

Electronics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications published semimonthly online by MDPI.
The Polish Society of Applied Electromagnetics (PTZE) is affiliated with Electronics and their members receive a discount on article processing charges.
Quartile Ranking JCR - Q2 (Engineering, Electrical and Electronic)

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Plasma power supplies find extensive applications across industrial, energy, environmental, and medical domains. This study addresses limitations of conventional plasma power supplies, including high harmonic current content, neutral-point potential imbalance, and manufacturing complexity. A novel design approach for high-frequency, high-voltage plasma power supplies is proposed, based on three-level sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) technology. First, the design distinctions between the input-side Boost power factor correction circuit and Diode Rectifier circuits are analyzed. Subsequently, an integrated SPWM driver-controller architecture and a design methodology for high-frequency transformers are introduced. A single-phase three-level SPWM modulation strategy is then presented. Based on this modulation technique, a high-frequency, high-voltage plasma power supply prototype incorporating air pumps and rotary motors was developed. Experimental validation demonstrated stable generation of plasma gas at a frequency of 25 kHz, with an output voltage of 10.79 kV and an output power of 1.75 kW. Results indicate that the refined power supply enhances electrical utilization efficiency, resolves neutral-point imbalance issues, and simplifies manufacturing through its integrated driver-controller design. This work offers a valuable reference for advancing high-frequency, high-voltage plasma technologies.

13 February 2026

Block diagram of the high-frequency high-voltage plasma power supply system.

Object detection in UAV aerial imagery presents significant challenges, including large-scale variations, complex background interference, object occlusion, and a high density of small targets. These factors restrict the generalization and localization capabilities of existing detectors. To address these issues, we propose YOLO-DMA, an efficient detection framework for aerial images. The framework incorporates three key improvements. First, we designed a Hierarchical Deformable Block (HDB), which uses adaptive sampling grids and a progressive multi-branch structure to capture features of irregular objects while preserving network depth, enabling richer hierarchical feature representation. Second, we proposed a Dual-Path Linear-complexity Perception (DPLP) module. One path employs a linear-complexity attention mechanism to model the global context efficiently, while the other utilizes lightweight convolutions to extract local details. This design effectively fuses shallow details with mid-level semantics, improving detection and localization accuracy. Third, we adopted the Wise-IoU v3 loss function, which dynamically adjusts optimization objectives, suppressing harmful gradients from low-quality samples and emphasizing small objects during training. Comprehensive experiments on the VisDrone dataset show that YOLO-DMA achieves 42.8% mAP50 and 25.7% mAP50:95. These correspond to improvements of 4.8% and 3.1% over YOLOv10. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed framework.

13 February 2026

The structure of YOLO-DMA.

The integration of renewable energy sources, including photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cell (FC) systems, into AC grids has attracted immense research interest in recent times. Furthermore, incorporating these renewable sources of energy into medium-voltage grids is garnering increased attention because of the obvious benefits of medium-voltage integration at elevated power levels. Photovoltaic applications entail the arrangement of solar panels capable of outputting voltages up to 1.5 kV; nonetheless, fuel cells display restricted output voltage, with a maximum market range of 400 to 700 V. Hence, the efficient integration of renewable energy sources into low-voltage or medium-voltage grids demands the utilization of a step-up direct current (DC–DC) inverter and a converter for connection to the alternating current (AC) grid, in which an efficient step-up converter is critical for the medium-voltage grid. Therefore, this study presents a three-phase buck-boost split-source inverter (BSSI) that resolves the constrained output voltage of the fuel cells. This study focuses on modifying the configuration of a conventional three-phase split-source inverter (SSI) circuit by adding a few components while maintaining the inverter’s modulation. This novel circuit design enables the reduction in voltage strains on the inverter switch components and improves DC-link use in relation to a traditional SSI configuration. For an 800 bus, maximal voltage stress on the primary inverter switches is lowered when compared with the standard SSI that delivers entire DC-bus voltage to switches. A rectifier-based model is employed to simulate the behavior of a renewable energy source. Combining these advantages with the conventional modulation of the inverter offers a more effective design. The buck-boost split-source inverter (BSSI) was analyzed using three distinct modulation techniques: the sinusoidal pulse-width modulation scheme (SPWM), the third-harmonic injected pulse-width modulation (THPWM) scheme, and space vector modulation (SVM). The proposed analysis was validated through MATLAB-SIMULINK and practical outcomes on a 5.0 kW model. The practical and SIMULINK data were found to be closely aligned with the analysis. The circuit developed in this study also ensures efficient DC-to-AC conversion, specifically with regard to low-voltage sources, like fuel cells or photovoltaic (PV) systems.

13 February 2026

(a) Conventional three-phase SSI, and (b) proposed three-phase buck-boost SSI (BSSI).

An FPGA-Based YOLOv5n Accelerator for Online Multi-Track Particle Localization

  • Zixuan Song,
  • Wangwang Tang and
  • Zhiyuan Ma
  • + 7 authors

Reliability testing for Single Event Effects (SEEs) requires accurate localization of heavy-ion tracks from projection images. Conventional localization often relies on handcrafted features and geometric fitting, which is sensitive to noise and difficult to accelerate in hardware. This paper presents a lightweight detector based on YOLOv5n that treats charge tracks in Topmetal pixel sensor projections as distinct objects and directly regresses the track angle and intercept, along with bounding boxes, in a single forward pass. On a synthetic dataset, the model achieves a precision of 0.9626 and a recall of 0.9493, with line-parameter errors of 0.3930° in angle and 0.4842 pixels in intercept. On experimental krypton beam data, the detector reaches a precision of 0.92 and a recall of 0.96, with a position resolution of 52.05 μm. We further deploy the model on an Xilinx Alveo U200, achieving an average per-frame accelerator latency of 3.1 ms while preserving measurement quality. This approach enables accurate, online track localization for SEE monitoring on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platforms.

13 February 2026

Principle of the Topmetal-based beam tracking detector and an example of a single heavy-ion projection. Two orthogonal drift cells with uniform electric fields guide electrons to pixel anodes and form projections on the X–Z and Y–Z planes. These projections are used to localize the impact position on the device under test in the online pipeline. Arrows indicate the electric-field direction, and dashed lines denote the ion beam path and auxiliary reference lines for localization.

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Electronics - ISSN 2079-9292