A recently published second-edition book, Resonant Power Converters, put out in 2011 by the IEEE and Wiley, and written by two professors, Marian K. Kazamierczuk and Dariusz Czarkowski, has 600 pages ...

As part of a power electronics design project involving a 3.6-V dc-dc converter, it became necessary to test and accurately characterize the planar transformer shown in Fig. 1. Transformer operating ...

Piezoelectric transformers and power converters represent a frontier in power electronics, harnessing the direct electromechanical coupling of piezoelectric materials to transform electrical energy ...

A next-generation capacitor family is setting a new bar for high-current DC link designs, pushing continuous operation to 105 ...

Power converters have gained an increasingly important role in every electronic application and robotics is no different. Today, most electronic devices integrate components that have different power ...

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This course introduces the basic concepts of switched-mode converter circuits for controlling and converting electrical power with high efficiency. Principles of converter circuit analysis are ...

In power electronics, design engineers strive to deliver more power in a more efficient manner, and in smaller footprints at all stages of the power-delivery chain, from the smart grid to the end ...

Xingang Fu, Ph.D., is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in ...

The University of California San Diego and scientists from CEA-Leti have developed a piezoelectric-based DC-DC converter that unifies all power switches onto a single chip to increase power density.