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Active Voltage Balancing with Seamless Integration into Dual Gate Driver for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

Drazen Dujic, Rui Wang

The versatility of half-bridge configuration of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) power module contributes to its widespread adoption, highlighting the popularity and significance of its corresponding dual gat ...

2024

Miniaturised, Wireless and Distributed Neural Interface Toward Cortical Visual Prosthesis

Gian Luca Barbruni

Over the last decades, implantable neural interfaces have been extensively explored and effectively deployed to address neurological and mental health disorders. The existing solutions present several limitations. Firstly, the physical size of the implanta ...

EPFL2023

Method for operating a power converter and power converter

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The present invention relates to a method for operating a resonant power converter (1) having a primary stage (2) and a secondary stage (3) at least one of which is actively operated and includes a half-bridge or full-bridge inverter (21) having a pull-up ...

2023

Dc-Link Ripple Suppression of Cascaded H-Bridge Based MV Grid Emulator Apparatus for Analysis and Testing of Grid-Tied Converters in Distribution System

Drazen Dujic, Chengmin Li

The medium-voltage grid emulator is gaining popularity for testing grid-code compliance of large-capacity converters for renewable energy resources. The cascaded H-bridge converter based on active-front-ends is a promising candidate for high-power grid emu ...

2023

Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter for Pumped Hydro Storage Applications

Miodrag Basic

Energy balance in a power system must be maintained at all times, regardless of the variations in generation and consumption. Large Pumped Hydro Storage Plants (PHSPs) are introduced to the power system to accumulate the excess of energy during the low dem ...

EPFL2022

Hard-Switching Losses in Power FETs: The Role of Output Capacitance

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili

For certain field-effect transistors (FETs) in soft-switching operation, the large-signal behavior of their output capacitance ( Co ) has shown to deviate considerably from the datasheet values. This can have a significant effect on hard-switching losses i ...

2021

A Modular Multilevel Converter with a Clamping Switch for Quasi-Three-Level Operation

Jakub Kucka

The required module capacitances of modular multilevel converters can be significantly reduced in comparison to conventional operation modes when quasi-two-level operation is applied. Unfortunately, the output voltage distortion becomes similar to those of ...

IEEE2021

Automated test setup to quantify the lifetime of dielectric elastomer actuators under a wide range of operating conditions

Herbert Shea, Fabio Beco Albuquerque, Djen Timo Kühnel, Valentin Colin Py

We present an automated test setup for the systematic performance and lifetime evaluation of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). This setup, called the MAPLE setup, performs accelerated aging tests and allows quantifying how material choice, fabrication ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter Design and Control for Variable Speed Pumped Hydro Storage Plants

Drazen Dujic, Milan Utvic, Miodrag Basic

Hybrid modular multilevel converter control and design for pumped hydro storage plants is presented, addressing application-specific shortcoming of conventional back-to-back half-bridge modular multilevel converter: high common-mode-voltage machine stress. ...

2021

Deexcitation Characterization for Power Supply Protection in DC Shipboard Power Systems

Drazen Dujic, Seongil Kim

The deexcitation of a synchronous machine has been used for the protection of the power supply based on a diode rectifier in marine dc power distribution networks. The fault current from the generator can be eliminated with the protection method utilizing ...

IEEE2020

On Power Scalability of Modular Multilevel Converters: Increasing Current Ratings Through Branch Paralleling

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) presented in Figure 1 found its place within highvoltage and medium-voltage (MV) applications owing to the possibility of effortlessly meeting the imposed voltage requirements by stacking the so-called submodules (SMs ...

2020

Embedded Microchannel Cooling for High Power-Density GaN-on-Si Power Integrated Circuits

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Georgios Kampitsis

In this work, we demonstrate a new thermal management approach for direct cooling of GaN-on-Si power integrated circuits (ICs), in which the Si substrate functions as a microfluidic heat sink, turning Si into a cost-effective, high thermal performance subs ...

IEEE2020

Smooth Power Direction Transition of a Bidirectional LLC Resonant Converter for DC Transformer Applications

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The bidirectional LLC resonant converter operated at fixed switching frequency is a preferable candidate for a true dc transformer that does not actively control the power flow. This is due to its naturally stiff voltage ratio regardless of the imposed loa ...

2020

Ultra-compact, high-frequency power integrated circuits based on GaN-on-Si Schottky Barrier Diodes

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Luca Nela, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Georgios Kampitsis

GaN transistors are being employed in an increasing number of applications thanks to their excellent performance and competitive price. Yet, GaN diodes are not commercially available and little is known about their performance and potential impact on power ...

2020

IGCT Based Solid State Resonant Conversion

Dragan Stamenkovic

Driven by the environmental changes, penetration of renewables and the need for more flexible power grid, DC is reemerging as a basis for future power networks. Already established in the area of HVDC for very long distance transmission, more and more atte ...

EPFL2020

Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication for Implantable Autonomous Monitoring and Detection of Epilepsy In Vivo

Kerim Türe

The impact of technological advancement became significant and still has an essential role to play in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Nowadays, personalized medicine and therapy are on the rise as a consequence of the developed and cheaper medical ...

EPFL2019

MVDC Supply Technologies for Marine Electrical Distribution Systems

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Uzair Javaid

The increase in the popularity of the medium voltage dc (MVDC) electrical distribution, as a possible evolution of the medium voltage ac (MVAC) electrical distribution for the ship on-board power systems, arises a need for a comparative evaluation and demo ...

2018

Development of a monolithic near-field optomechanical system

Ryan Daniel Schilling

In the same year as Einstein's annus mirabilis, English engineer and physicist John Flemming patented the first rectifying diode, which he called the "Flemming valve". Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect would change our understanding of the nature ...

EPFL2018

Bolometric detection of ferromagnetic resonance in YIG slab

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Marcin Bialek, Sa Tu

The resistance of the Pt bar deposited on the YIG slab was monitored while the magnetic field was ramped through the ferromagnetic resonance with the YIG slab facing a coplanar waveguide resonator excited at 4.3 GHz excitation. The resistance change provid ...

Elsevier2017

Photodiode Response in a CH3NH3PbI3/CH3NH3SnI3 Heterojunction

László Forró, Bálint Náfrádi, Endre Horvath, Massimo Spina, Andrea Pisoni

Here we report another surprising feature of the methylammonium metal halide material family, the phototunability of the diode response of a heterojunction made of CH3NH3PbI3 and its close relative, CH3NH3SnI3. In the dark state the device behaves as a dio ...

2017