Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Award

First Place

“Feedforward Frequency Deviation Control in PLL for Fast Inertial Response of DFIG-Based Wind Turbines” by Donghai Zhu, Xiang Guo, Binwei Tang, Jiabing Hu, Xudong Zou, and Yong Kang (Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2024, pp. 664-676)

“A High-Efficiency High-Density Three-Phase CLLC Resonant Converter With a Universally Derived Three-Phase Integrated Transformer for On-Board-Charger Application” by Feng Jin, Ahmed Nabih, Tianlong Yuan, and Qiang Li (Volume 39, Issue 4, April 2024, pp. 4350-4366)

“A 10 kV SiC MOSFET Power Module With Optimized System Interface and Electric Field Distribution” by Xiaoling Li, Yuxiang Chen, Hao Chen, Riya Paul, Xiaoqing Song, and H. Alan Mantooth (Volume 39, Issue 8, August 2024, pp. 9540-9553)

“Overcurrent Limiting in Grid-Forming Inverters: A Comprehensive Review and Discussion” by Nathan Baeckeland, Debjyoti Chatterjee, Minghui Lu, Brian Johnson, and Gab-Su Seo (Volume 39, Issue 11, November 2024, pp. 14493-14517)

“A Three-Phase Partial Power Processing Soft-Switched Inverter” by Matthew Jahnes and Matthias Preindl (Volume 39, Issue 12, December 2024, pp. 16242-16255)

Second Place

“A Novel Modular Magnetic-Coupled Converter (MMCC) for Medium-Voltage Motor Drive With Minimized DC Capacitance and Transformer Volume” by Sixing Du, Qunsheng Song, and Jinjun Liu (Volume 39, Issue 2, February 2024, pp. 2448-2457)

“A Spurious-Free Piezoelectric Resonator Based 3.2 kW DC-DC Converter for EV On-Board Chargers” by Eric Stolt, Weston Braun, Kristi Nguyen, Vakhtang Chulukhadze, Ruochen Ly, and Juan Rivas-Davila (Volume 39, Issue 2, February 2024, pp. 2478-2488)

“Reduction of CM Noise by Minimizing Near-Field Effects in a DC-DC Converter” by Tyler McGrew, Shuo Wang, and Qiang Li (Volume 39, Issue 4, April 2024, pp. 4210-4223)

“Current-Synchronization Control of Grid-Forming Converters for Fault Current Limiting and Enhanced Synchronization Stability” by Shan Jiang, Ye Zhu, Tianyi Xu, and Georgios Konstantinou (Volume 39, Issue 5, May 2024, pp. 5271-5285)

“Optimal Control of Multilevel DAB Converters for Soft-Switching and Minimum Current Stress” by Chaochao Song, Ariya Sangwongwanich, Yongheng Hang, and Frede Blaabjerg (Volume 39, Issue 5, May 2024, pp. 5707-5720)

“A 48 V-1 V Auxiliary-Assisted Hybrid DC-DC Converter With Flying-Capacitor-Based Virtual Bus for Fast Transient Response” by Nameer Khan, Orest Cobani, Gerard Villar Piqué, John Pigott, Henk Jan Bergveld, and Olivier Trescases (Volume 39, Issue 5, May 2024, pp. 5848-5861)

“A Sparsity-Promoting Time Domain Evaluation Method for Thermal Transient Measurement of Power Semiconductors” by Yi Zhang, Anton Evgrafov, Shuai Zhao, Sven Kalker, and Rik W. De Doncker (Volume 39, Issue 6, June 2024, pp. 7525-7535)

“Over 98% Efficiency SiC-MOSFET Based Four-Phase Interleaved Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Featuring Wide-Range Voltage Ratio” by Shiqiang Liu, Guiyi Dong, Tomokazu Mishima, and Ching-Ming Lai (Volume 39, Issue 7, July 2024, pp. 8436-8455)

“Estimation of Semiconductor Power Losses Through Automatic Thermal Modeling” by José Miguel Sanz-Alcaine, Eduardo Sebastián, Francisco José Perez-Cebolla, Asier Arruti, Carlos Bernal-Ruiz, and Iosu Aizpur (Volume 39, Issue 9, September 2024, pp. 11086-11098)