Simulation of Bidirectional Converter for Vechile to Grid and Grid to Vechile Application

This paper represents a bidirectional converter for the application of vehicle to grid and grid to vehicle application. This converter can be used in the application of electric vehicle. And the results have been verified through simulation in MATLAB. The topology can provide an energy bi-directional flow path for energy exchange between the Libattery/supercapacitor (SC) hybrid energy storage system (HESS) of the electric vehicle and the grid. Keywords: bi-directional converter, vehicle, HESS, Li-battery.

‘Horror Vacui’ in the Oxygen Sublattice of Lithium Niobate Made Affordable by Cationic Flexibility

The present review is intended to interest a broader audience interested in the resolution of the several decades-long controversy on the possible role of oxygen-vacancy defects in LiNbO3. Confronting ideas of a selected series of papers from classical experiments to brand new large-scale calculations, a unified interpretation of the defect generation and annealing mechanisms governing processes during thermo- and mechanochemical treatments and irradiations of various types is presented. The dominant role of as-grown and freshly generated Nb antisite defects as traps for small polarons and bipolarons is demonstrated, while mobile lithium vacancies, also acting as hole traps, are shown to provide flexible charge compensation needed for stability. The close relationship between LiNbO3 and the Li battery materials LiNb3O8 and Li3NbO4 is pointed out. The oxygen sublattice of the bulk plays a much more passive role, whereas oxygen loss and Li2O segregation take place in external or internal surface layers of a few nanometers.