2017 Winners
First Place
October 2017 | Dean P. Hamilton, Michael R. Jennings, Amador Pérez-Tomás, Stephen A. O. Russell, Steven A. Hindmarsh, Craig A. Fisher, and Philip A. Mawby | High-Temperature Electrical and Thermal Aging Performance and Application Considerations for SiC Power DMOSFETs |
May 2017 |
Bartolomeo Stellato, Tobias Geyer, and Paul J. Goulart | High-Speed Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control for Power Electronics |
May 2017 | Sai Chun Tang, Tian Le Tim Lun, Ziyan Guo, Ka-Wai Kwok, and Nathan J. McDannold | Intermediate Range Wireless Power Transfer With Segmented Coil Transmitters for Implantable Heart Pumps |
Second Place
January 2017 | Xiaohui Qu, Yanyan Jing, Hongdou Han, Siu Chung Wong, and Chi K. Tse | Higher order compensation for inductive-power-transfer converters with constant-voltage or constant-current output combating transformer parameter constraints |
March 2017 | Or Kirshenboim, Alon Cervera, and Mor Mordechai Peretz | Improving Loading and Unloading Transient Response of a Voltage Regulator Module Using a Load-Side Auxiliary Gyrator Circuit |
April 2017 | Yueshi Guan, Yijie Wang, Dianguo Xu, and Wei Wang | A 1 MHz Half-Bridge Resonant DC/DC Converter Based on GaN FETs and Planar Magnetics |
January 2017 | Zhemin Zhang, Khai D. T. Ngo, and Jeff L. Nilles | Design of Inductors with Significant AC Flux |
January 2017 | Minjie Chen, Khurram K. Afridi, Sombuddha Chakraborty, and David J. Perreault | Multitrack Power Conversion Architecture |