Design of a 200 W Flying Capacitor Multilevel Flyback Converter

Santino Graziani received his bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 2016, 2018, and 2022, respectively. He was a member of Pitt’s Electric Power Systems Laboratory where he published IEEE papers in the area of photovoltaic inverters and DC-to-DC power electronics. His core research work is introducing a new DC-to-DC power electronics topology to the field known as the Flying Capacitor Multilevel Flyback Converter (FCMFC). During his graduate years and to the present day, he worked for Eaton Corporation in various positions ranging from vehicle-to-grid research to product development for Home Energy Management Systems.

Thomas Cook received the bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 2017, 2019, and 2023, respectively. He was affiliated with the NSF Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC), Resilient and Dependable Computing Group, and the Electric Power Technologies Laboratory at Pitt. He has worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA, and the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.  He currently works for the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. His research interests include wide bandgap semiconductors, power electronics for space applications, and power systems for Cube-Sats.

Prof. Brandon Grainger holds a PhD in electrical engineering (with a specialization in power conversion), a master's degree in electrical engineering, and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (with a minor in electrical engineering), all from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering. He was one of the first original R.K. Mellon graduate student fellows through the Center for Energy. He also obtained an executive education certificate from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. He is currently an Eaton faculty fellow, associate professor, and director of the Electric Power Technologies Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Pitt. He is also the associate director of the Energy GRID Institute and co-director of Pitt AMPED. He is one of the co-architects of the electric power program at Pitt that started in the fall of 2008. His research interests are in electric power conversion, medium-to-high voltage power electronics (HVDC and STATCOM), general power electronic converter design (topology, controller design, magnetics), resonant converters and high power density design, power semiconductor evaluation (SiC and GaN), aerospace power conversion systems, EV motor drives, solid state transformer design, and optimized magnetic components.  Dr. Grainger has well over 110 publications published in various venues and 1 patent with others pending and is the editor of one research textbook.