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

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