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Switched tank converters by Jiang, Shuai, Nan, Chenhao, Li, Xin, Chung, Chee, Yazdani, Mobashar

“…This paper presents a new class of Switched Tank Converters (abbreviated as STCs) for high efficiency high density non-isolated DC-DC application where large…”
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Power-dense multilevel inverter module using interleaved GaN-based phases for electric aircraft propulsion by Pallo, Nathan, Foulkes, Thomas, Modeer, Tomas, Coday, Samantha, Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert

“…Realizing the electrification of aircraft necessitates the development of inverters and rectifiers with ultra-high efficiency and specific power…”
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Comparative investigation of PWM current-source inverters for future machine drives using high-frequency wide-bandgap power switches by Dai, Hang, Jahns, Thomas M.

“…Pulse-width-modulated (PWM) current-source inverters (CSIs) in machine drives have received limited research attention since the 1980s because they are…”
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Extreme fast charging station architecture for electric vehicles with partial power processing by Iyer, Vishnu Mahadeva, Gulur, Srinivas, Gohil, Ghanshyamsinh, Bhattacharya, Subhashish

“…This paper introduces a power delivery architecture for an Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) station that is meant to simultaneously charge multiple electric…”
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A new six-switch five-level boost-active neutral point clamped (5L-Boost-ANPC) inverter by Siwakoti, Yam P.

“…Multilevel converters have seen an increasing popularity in the last decades, due to the increased power ratings, improved power quality, low switching losses,…”
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High precision gate signal timing control based active voltage balancing scheme for series-connected fast switching field-effect transistors by Zhang, Zheyu, Gui, Handong, Niu, Jiahao, Chen, Ruirui, Wang, Fred, Tolbert, Leon M., Costinett, Daniel J., Blalock, Benjamin J.

“…Due to the low availability, high cost, and limited performance of high voltage power devices in high voltage high power applications, series-connection of low…”
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A WBG based three phase 12.5 kW 500 kHz CLLC resonant converter with integrated PCB winding transformer by Li, Bin, Li, Qiang, Lee, Fred C.

“…The three phase resonant converter gains its popularity in high power areas like off-board charger due to its ability to reduce the current stress on devices…”
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Kilowatt-scale large air-gap multi-modular capacitive wireless power transfer system for electric vehicle charging by Regensburger, Brandon, Sinha, Sreyam, Kumar, Ashish, Vance, Jason, Popovic, Zoya, Afridi, Khurram K.

“…This paper introduces a high-performance kilowatt-scale large air-gap multi-modular capacitive wireless power transfer (WPT) system for electric vehicle (EV)…”
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High efficiency SiC traction inverter for electric vehicle applications by Zhu, Jianglin, Kim, Hyeokjin, Chen, Hua, Erickson, Robert, Maksimovic, Dragan

“…Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs, which offer substantial improvements in the device figure of merit, are investigated as alternatives to silicon IGBTs in…”
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Hardware design of a 1.7 kV SiC MOSFET based MMC for medium voltage motor drives by Li, He, Potty, Karun, Ke, Ziwei, Pan, Jianyu, Chen, Yingzhuo, Zhang, Fan, Sabbagh, Muneer Al, Perdikakis, Will, Li, Gengyao, Ye, Xi, Na, Risha, Zhang, Julia, Xu, Longya, Wang, Jin

“…This paper presents the hardware design of a 7 kV dc bus, 1 MVA, 0-1,000 Hz, 1.7 kV SiC MOSFET based medium voltage variable speed drive (MVVSD) 1 . The system…”
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Developing a standardized method for measuring and quantifying dynamic on-state resistance via a survey of low voltage GaN HEMTs by Foulkes, Thomas, Modeer, Tomas, Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C. N.

“…Designing and optimizing high frequency, ultra-efficient converters requires detailed knowledge of the behavior and parasitic parameters for both active and…”
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A general algorithm for flexible active power control of photovoltaic systems by Dehghani Tafti, Hossein, Sangwongwanich, Ariya, Yang, Yongheng, Konstantinou, Georgios, Pou, Josep, Blaabjerg, Frede

“…The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is generally implemented in grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) power plants to maximize the energy yield. However, as the…”
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Active thermal cycle reduction of power modules via gate resistance manipulation by van der Broeck, Christoph H., Ruppert, Lukas A., Lorenz, Robert D., De Doncker, Rik W.

“…This paper discusses active thermal cycle reduction techniques for power electronic modules. These reduce the thermomechanical strain in the interconnects of…”
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Miller plateau as an indicator of SiC MOSFET gate oxide degradation by Ni, Ze, Li, Yanchao, Lyu, Xiaofeng, Yadav, Om Prakash, Cao, Dong

“…This paper presents a new indicator of SiC MOSFET gate oxide degradation based on Miller plateau. The physical mechanism of Miller plateau shift with gate…”
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High power 3-phase to 3-phase matrix converter using dual-gate GaN bidirectional switches by Umeda, Hidekazu, Yamada, Yasuhiro, Asanuma, Kenichi, Kusama, Fumito, Kinoshita, Yusuke, Ueno, Hiroaki, Ishida, Hidetoshi, Hatsuda, Tsuguyasu, Ueda, Tetsuzo

“…Highly efficient three-phase to three-phase matrix converters using Gallium nitride (GaN) bidirectional switches with both high current and high breakdown…”
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High current medium voltage solid state circuit breaker using paralleled 15kV SiC ETO by Zhang, Liqi, Woodley, Richard, Song, Xiaoqing, Sen, Soumik, Zhao, Xin, Huang, Alex Q.

“…The SiC ETO concept, developed based on the SiC gate turn-off (GTO) thyristors, has the advantages of simple voltage controlled gate drive, very high blocking…”
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Comparison between desaturation sensing and Rogowski coil current sensing for shortcircuit protection of 1.2 kV, 300 A SiC MOSFET module by Mocevic, Slavko, Wang, Jun, Burgos, Rolando, Boroyevich, Dushan, Stancu, Constantin, Jaksic, Marko, Peaslee, Brian

“…Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET devices have small internal inductance and small on state resistance, resulting in a huge di/dt which will cause the current to…”
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Optimization of ferrite core to reduce the core loss in double-D pad of wireless charging system for electric vehicles by Mohammad, Mostak, Choi, Seungdeog

“…In this paper, an optimized core structure is proposed for the double-D (DD) power pad to reduce its core loss in a wireless charging system for Electric and…”
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A resonant switched capacitor based 4-to-1 bus converter achieving 2180 W/in3 power density and 98.9% peak efficiency by Ye, Zichao, Lei, Yutian, Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C. N.

“…Hybrid switched-capacitor (SC) converters are known to have the potential to achieve higher efficiency and higher power density than conventional SC and…”
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High-frequency LC3L resonant DC-DC converter for automotive LED driver applications by Mukherjee, Satyaki, Sepahvand, Alihossein, Maksimovic, Dragan

“…This paper presents a high-frequency zero-voltage switching (ZVS) resonant converter using a novel LC 3 L resonant tank. The converter behaves like a current…”
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