Search Results - "2020 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)"

A 48-to-6 V Multi-Resonant-Doubler Switched-Capacitor Converter for Data Center Applications by Ye, Zichao, Abramson, Rose A., Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C. N.

“…Compared with conventional switched-capacitor (SC) converters with two operating phases, multi-phase SC converters can achieve the same conversion ratio with…”
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Cross-Coupled Series-Capacitor Quadruple Step-Down Buck Converter by Halamicek, Michael, McRae, Timothy, Prodic, Aleksandar

“…This paper introduces a novel two-phase dc-dc multi-level flying capacitor converter topology. This topology is well-suited for emerging high step-down…”
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A 10-Level Flying Capacitor Multi-Level Dual-Interleaved Power Module for Scalable and Power-Dense Electric Drives by Pallo, Nathan, Coday, Samantha, Schaadt, Joseph, Assem, Pourya, Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C. N.

“…The adoption of cleaner vehicle technologies is predicated on the development of efficient and power-dense electric drives. Recent activity in this area has…”
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Lyapunov Based Neural Network Estimator Designed for Grid-Tied Nine-Level Packed E-Cell Inverter by Babaie, Mohammad, Sharifzadeh, Mohammad, Mehrasa, Majid, Al-Haddad, Kamal

“…This paper presents a robust controller based on Lyapunov Control Theory (LCT) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for the grid-tied single-phase nine-level…”
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7.2 kV Three-Port Single-Phase Single-Stage Modular Soft-Switching Solid-State Transformer with Active Power Decoupling and Reduced DC-Link by Zheng, Liran, Han, Xiangyu, Kandula, Rajendra Prasad, Kandasamy, Karthik, Saeedifard, Maryam, Divan, Deepak

“…This paper proposes a single-stage modular medium-voltage soft-switching solid-state transformer (M-S4T). The 7.2 kV 50 kVA M-S4T consists of five stacked 1.44…”
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Hardware Design and Demonstration of a 100kW, 99% Efficiency Dual Active Half Bridge Converter Based on 1700V SiC Power MOSFET by Xu, Wei, Guo, Zhicheng, Tayebi, S. Milad, Rajendran, Sanjay, Sun, Ao, Yu, Ruiyang, Huang, Alex Q.

“…High efficiency, high density and galvanically isolated power converters are attractive for numerous medium voltage high power applications. This paper…”
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High Accuracy Calorimetric Measurements and Modeling of Ceramic Capacitor Losses Under Large Ripple Operation by Coday, Samantha, Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C.N.

“…Recent work on hybrid and resonant switched-capacitor converters, as well as on flying capacitor multi-level converters, have demonstrated exceptionally high…”
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LEGO-PoL: A 48V-1.5V 300A Merged-Two-Stage Hybrid Converter for Ultra-High-Current Microprocessors by Baek, Jaeil, Wang, Ping, Elasser, Youssef, Chen, Yenan, Jiang, Shuai, Chen, Minjie

“…This paper presents a family of 48 V-1.5 V merged-two-stage hybrid-switched-capacitor converters with a Linear Extendable Group Operated Point-of-Load…”
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48V-to-12V Dual-Path Hybrid DC-DC Converter by Hata, Katsuhiro, Yamauchi, Yoshitaka, Sai, Toru, Sakurai, Takayasu, Takamiya, Makoto

“…A dual-path hybrid DC-DC converter with the step-down ratio of less than half is proposed for the first time. In the proposed converter, the efficiency is…”
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Three-Phase Interleaved LLC Resonant Converter with Integrated Planar Magnetics for Telecom and Server Application by Gadelrab, Rimon, Lee, Fred C., Li, Qiang

“…The LLC converter is considered the most efficient topology in server and telecom applications. And, it has been demonstrated that three interleaved LLC…”
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Multi-Phase Three-Level Buck Converter with Current Self-Balancing for High Bandwidth Envelope Tracking Power Supply by Yerra, Srikanth, Krishnamoorthy, Harish

“…Envelope Tracking (ET) is a power supply modulation technique for a radio frequency power amplifier (RFPA), primarily employed to improve its efficiency. This…”
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An Analytical SiC MOSFET Switching Behavior Model Considering Parasitic Inductance and Temperature Effect by Yan, Yiyang, Wang, Zhiwei, Chen, Cai, Kang, Yong, Yuan, Zhao, Luo, Fang

“…This paper presents an improved model to demonstrate the effect of parasitic inductance and temperature on switching behavior of silicon carbide MOSFET to…”
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Advanced Modulation Scheme with Loss Balancing Effect Under Low-Modulation Operation for FC-T2C Converter by Chen, Runtian, Zhang, Yifan, Li, Chushan, Li, Wuhua, He, Xiangning, Zhu, Jianguo, Li, Chenguang, Gu, Xiaowei

“…Multilevel converters are widely applied in the field of high-power machine drives. The flying capacitor-T-type converter (FC-T 2 C), which is derived by…”
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A Novel Digital PCM-V2 Control Method for Active Clamp Flyback Converter to Realize Fast Output Dynamic Response by Wang, Tingying, Liao, Liangchuang, Xu, Shengyou, Gu, Cheng, Qian, Qinsong, Sun, Weifeng

“…Active Clamp flyback converter (ACF) is a good candidate to replace the traditional flyback converter to be used in high frequency small power applications…”
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Improved V2 Constant On-Time Control with State- Trajectory Control by Li, Virginia, Li, Qiang, Lee, Fred C.

“…Voltage regulator for smartphone microprocessor applications, such as CPU and GPU, need to meet stringent load transient requirements. A popular…”
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A Zero Inductor-Voltage 48V to 12V/70A Converter for Data Centers with 99.1% Peak Efficiency and 2.5kW/in3 Power Density by Webb, Samuel, Liu, Yan-Fei

“…The demand for internet and computing resources has led to datacenters and servers being one of the fastest growing consumers of power in the world today…”
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A 97% Peak Efficiency and 308 A/in3 Current Density 48-to-4 V Two-Stage Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converter for Data Center Applications by Liu, Wen Chuen, Ye, Zichao, Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C.N.

“…Resonant switched-capacitor (SC) converters have shown great potential in achieving high efficiency and high current/power density, due to their better…”
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An ℒ∞ Feedback Control Strategy for Grid-Connected Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverters by Fernandez, Daniel, Ahmed, Sara, Taha, Ahmad F.

“…The renewable energy market is expanding, and this creates a demand for efficient control for energy conversion. Most renewable energy is harnessed as DC and…”
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Medium Voltage Bidirectional DC-DC Isolator using Series Connected 10kV SiC MOSFETs by Parashar, Sanket, Kumar, Ashish, Kolli, Nithin, Kokkonda, Raj Kumar, Bhattacharya, Subhashish

“…This paper proposes a practical and economically viable MVDC bidirectional DC-DC isolator required for interface of grids to Microgrid (MG), MG to MG and…”
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Design Optimization for a GaN FET-based Three-level Synchronous Buck Converter by Zhang, Yuanzhe, Wang, Jianjing, de Rooij, Michael

“…Multi-level buck converters offer the benefits of improved efficiency and power density. GaN FETs with their low loss and small physical size further enhance…”
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