{"title":"IEEE PELS SBC at SJCE Hosts Distinguished Lectures","authors":"Poojasree Kubendra Raja","doi":"10.1109/mpel.2023.3303120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpel.2023.3303120","url":null,"abstract":"To celebrate PELS Day 2023, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Student Branch Chapter (SBC) at St. Joseph’s College of Engineering (SJCE) hosted multiple distinguished lectures. The first one took place on 10 June and the topic “Career in Power Electronics and How to Master a Craft in Core Engineering” was presented by PELS Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Dr. Brij Singh, John Deere Technical Fellow. On 13 June, the second presentation was by PELS DL Dr. Keyue Ma Smedley on the topic “Exploration at the Confluence of Three Major Power Electronics Branches.”","PeriodicalId":13049,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Power Electronics Magazine","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134914349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent Advances in Capacitors Used in Wide Bandgap Power Circuitry","authors":"Ron Demcko","doi":"10.1109/mpel.2023.3301379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpel.2023.3301379","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor technologies and the active devices they enable, including power diodes and transistors, have directly contributed to recent improvements in power conversion efficiency, and given today’s power circuit and grid demands, these efficiency gains are more important than ever.","PeriodicalId":13049,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Power Electronics Magazine","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134917616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prof. Panda Presents IEEE Distinguished Lecture at the University of Leicester, U.K.","authors":"Jinning Zhang","doi":"10.1109/mpel.2023.3303152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpel.2023.3303152","url":null,"abstract":"On 19 July 2023, Dr. Sanjib Kumar Panda, an associate professor and the director of the power and energy research at the National University of Singapore (NUS) presented the IEEE Distinguished Lecture (DL) titled “Renewable Energy Source Integration to Microgrids” at the School of Engineering, University of Leicester, U.K. ( <xref ref-type=\"fig\" rid=\"fig1\" xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">Figure 1</xref> ). The event was organized as a hybrid event with 18 in-person attendees and 41 online participants. The DL talk provided a detailed introduction to responsive grid 2.0 in Singapore and identified the challenges and opportunities for the evolving power grid, e.g., decentralized/distributed energy generation, diversified nature of loads, and bidirectional power and information flow.","PeriodicalId":13049,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Power Electronics Magazine","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134914348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumer EV Standards and Voltage Trends [Industry Pulse]","authors":"Kristen Parrish, Stephanie Watts Butler","doi":"10.1109/mpel.2023.3301284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpel.2023.3301284","url":null,"abstract":"The electric vehicle (EV) market continues to grow, with an estimated 14 million vehicles to be sold by end of 2023 <xref ref-type=\"bibr\" rid=\"ref1\" xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">[1]</xref> . As EVs continue to appear on the road, the charging infrastructure needed to support them will also continue to scale, especially with the help of government subsidies offered to both manufacturers and consumers (check out the September 2022 column for a deep dive on this <xref ref-type=\"bibr\" rid=\"ref2\" xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">[2]</xref> ). EV hardware, both in the vehicle (drive train/inverter) and in the charging station, will drive rail voltages—and with multiple voltage options comes competing semiconductor requirements. This article explores how implementation of different plug types and charging standards are impacting infrastructure scaling and accessibility, and how these may impact wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor needs going forward.","PeriodicalId":13049,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Power Electronics Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134915064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Liserre, Y. Pascal, J. McCord, Thiago A. Pereira, R. Adelung, Lukas Zimoch, S. Kaps, Xiaxin Li, N. Sun
{"title":"Voltage Controlled Magnetic Components for Power Electronics","authors":"M. Liserre, Y. Pascal, J. McCord, Thiago A. Pereira, R. Adelung, Lukas Zimoch, S. Kaps, Xiaxin Li, N. Sun","doi":"10.1109/MPEL.2023.3273892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MPEL.2023.3273892","url":null,"abstract":"Voltage controlled magnetic components, which consist of dynamically controllable inductances and transformers, are a promising yet understudied technology of growing interest. In fact, these components offer circuit designers an additional degree of freedom to achieve multi-objective optimization with improved Pareto fronts. This article provides a review of some technologies that can be used to create controlled magnetics, including emerging technologies with high potential. Furthermore, a list of possible applications are proposed, where these components can provide a significant advantage in terms of efficiency, size reduction, or controllability. Special emphasis is laid on a use case: a 20 kW multiport dc–dc converter in which power flow control is achieved using voltage-controlled inductors based on partially saturable magnetic cores.","PeriodicalId":13049,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Power Electronics Magazine","volume":"10 1","pages":"40-48"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49050277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diverse Future Leadership Insight From Successful Managers [Women in Engineering]","authors":"S. W. Butler","doi":"10.1109/mpel.2023.3270002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpel.2023.3270002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13049,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Power Electronics Magazine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49396581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE IES/PELS Joint SBC at MACE Coordinate “Light the Lives”","authors":"Amrutha V Nair","doi":"10.1109/mpel.2023.3275288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mpel.2023.3275288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13049,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Power Electronics Magazine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41533849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}