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A Nonlinear State Machine for Dead Zone Avoidance and Mitigation in a Synchronous Noninverting Buck-Boost Converter by Jones, D. C., Erickson, R. W.

“…A new nonlinear state machine is proposed as the solution to an operational dead zone near the buck/boost interface of the noninverting buck-boost converter…”
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Buck-Boost Converter Efficiency Maximization via a Nonlinear Digital Control Mapping for Adaptive Effective Switching Frequency by Jones, David C., Erickson, Robert W.

“…A nonlinear control loop mapping has previously been designed for mitigating the dead zone of a noninverting buck-boost converter while minimizing state…”
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Online Efficiency Optimization of a Closed-Loop Controlled SiC-Based Bidirectional Boost Converter by Sankaranarayanan, Vivek, Gao, Yucheng, Erickson, Robert W., Maksimovic, Dragan

“…This article presents an online efficiency optimization strategy for a digitally controlled, wide operating range silicon carbide based boost converter with…”
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Modeling and Design of High-Power, High-Current-Ripple Planar Inductors by Gao, Yucheng, Sankaranarayanan, Vivek, Dede, Ercan M., Zhou, Yuqing, Zhou, Feng, Erickson, Robert W., Maksimovic, Dragan

“…This article is focused on modeling and design optimization of high-current-ripple planar inductors in liquid-cooled high-power applications, such as…”
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High Weighted Efficiency in Single-Phase Solar Inverters by a Variable-Frequency Peak Current Controller by Levron, Yoash, Erickson, Robert W.

“…This paper discusses a control method that achieves high weighted efficiency in solar microinverters. A challenge in microinverters is to achieve high…”
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Bus Voltage Control With Zero Distortion and High Bandwidth for Single-Phase Solar Inverters by Levron, Yoash, Canaday, Sebastian, Erickson, Robert W.

“…Single-phase inverters must include an energy storage device, typically a high-voltage bus capacitor, to match the inverter constant input power to its…”
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Design of EMI Filters Having Low Harmonic Distortion in High-Power-Factor Converters by Levron, Yoash, Hyeokjin Kim, Erickson, Robert W.

“…This paper studies how electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters affect the harmonic distortion in high-power-factor converters. The EMI filter presents a…”
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Highly efficient solid state magnetoelectric gyrators by Leung, Chung Ming, Zhuang, Xin, Friedrichs, Daniel, Li, Jiefang, Erickson, Robert W., Laletin, V., Popov, M., Srinivasan, G., Viehland, D.

“…An enhancement in the power-conversion-efficiency (η) of a magneto-electric (ME) gyrator has been found by the use of Mn-substituted nickel zinc ferrite. A…”
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Thermal Design, Optimization, and Packaging of Planar Magnetic Components by Dede, Ercan M., Gao, Yucheng, Zhou, Yuqing, Sankaranarayanan, Vivek, Zhou, Feng, Maksimovic, Dragan, Erickson, Robert W.

“…This article is focused on the thermal design and three-dimensional (3-D) package optimization of planar magnetic components (PMCs), including transformers and…”
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Analysis and design of a low-stress buck-boost converter in universal-input PFC applications by Jingquan Chen, Maksimovic, D., Erickson, R.W.

“…In converters for power-factor-correction (PFC), the universal-input capability, i.e., the ability to operate from any ac line voltage world-wide, comes with a…”
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Predictive digital current programmed control by Jingquan Chen, Prodic, A., Erickson, R.W., Maksimovic, D.

“…This paper explores predictive digital current programmed control for valley, peak or average current. The control laws are derived for the three basic…”
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Online Efficiency Optimization of a Closed-Loop Controlled SiC-Based Boost Converter by Sankaranarayanan, Vivek, Gao, Yucheng, Erickson, Robert W., Maksimovic, Dragan

“…This paper presents an online optimization strategy for a silicon-carbide (SiC) based Boost converter where the converter switching frequency and dead times…”
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Analysis and Attenuation of Differential-Mode Resonances due to Winding Capacitances in High-Power Planar Transformers by Gao, Yucheng, Sankaranarayanan, Vivek, Erickson, Robert W., Maksimovic, Dragan

“…This paper presents analysis and modeling of differential-mode (DM) resonances due to interactions between inductances and parasitic winding capacitances in…”
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Dead-zone digital controllers for improved dynamic response of low harmonic rectifiers by Prodic, A., Maksimovic, D., Erickson, R.W.

“…This paper introduces a simple digital control method that enables fast regulation of the output voltage in low harmonic rectifiers with power factor…”
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A New Dual Current-Mode Controller Improves Power Regulation in Electrosurgical Generators by Friedrichs, D. A., Erickson, R. W., Gilbert, J.

“…A new dual current-mode controller produces a fast, accurate constant-power high-frequency ac output, with maximum current and voltage limits for an…”
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Self-tuning digitally controlled low-harmonic rectifier having fast dynamic response by Prodic, A., Jingquan Chen, Maksimovic, D., Erickson, R.W.

“…This paper describes a completely digitally controlled high-performance low-harmonic rectifier. It is shown that the dynamics of the outer voltage loop can be…”
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Nonlinear-carrier control for high-power-factor boost rectifiers by Maksimovic, D., Yungtaek Jang, Erickson, R.W.

“…Novel nonlinear-carrier (NLC) controllers are proposed for high-power-factor boost rectifiers. In the NLC controllers, the switch duty ratio is determined by…”
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Drive Cycle Based Reliability Analysis of Composite DC-DC Converters for Electric Vehicles by Ghosh, Aritra, Erickson, Robert W.

“…The paper is devoted to the reliability estimation of composite DC-DC converters. The reliability technique accounts for the probability of activation and…”
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Transient Mitigation in Mode Transitions for Composite DC-DC Converters by Ghosh, Aritra, Sankaranarayanan, Vivek, Erickson, Robert W.

“…A decentralized hierarchical control architecture is proposed for composite systems. Automatic mode transitions are performed in a high-level main controller…”
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Efficiency Maximization Using SiC Multi-Die Asymmetric Configurations for Composite DC-DC Converters by Ghosh, Aritra, Erickson, Robert W.

“…Electric vehicles (EVs) need high efficiency DC-DC converters to improve drive cycle performance. Asymmetric SiC multi-die configurations in half-bridge…”
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