Current Research and Future Trends in Power Electronics Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2025 | Viewed by 33
Special Issue Editors
Interests: power electronics; grid-interface converters; multilevel converters; wireless power transfer
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last 20 years have been characterized by a dramatic explosion in the electricity demand in many countries around the world, guided by the need for less pollution and more environmental sustainability for present and future generations. As a matter of fact, electricity is involved in most things and can be found almost everywhere, from cooking hobs to car motors and production processes. Power electronics play a key role in allowing this deep electrification trend, and research on new semiconductor technologies, converter topologies, and their control is essential for achieving the following:
- improving the efficiency and performance of systems involving electric motors, devices, and batteries;
- opening possibilities for new products and constructive solutions as well as new ways for interfacing energy sources (renewable or not) with main grids and moving power flows within them.
Thus, this Special Issue on “Current Research and Future Trends in Power Electronics’ Applications” aims to draw a picture of the current state of research in the fields mentioned above. Papers describing specific new promising solutions for switching devices, power converter topologies, control strategies, and modulations techniques and review articles on the current state of research in the above areas, highlighting future challenges and trends, are warmly welcome. The submitted manuscripts should also provide a well-defined framework of applications for the proposed solutions or reviews.
The recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- multilevel converters;
- modular multilevel converters (MMC);
- dual active bridges (DAB);
- new topologies for AC/DC, DC/AC, and DC/DC power converters;
- GaN, SiC, and new semiconductor technologies and their applications;
- monolithic bidirectional power switches and their applications;
- applications of control techniques to power converters (predictive, robust, geometric, non-linear);
- converters involved in wireless power transfer (WPT);
- converters involved fast and ultra-fast recharging stations for electric vehicles;
- converters in HVDC;
- converters for battery recharging and management system techniques.
Dr. Nicola Toscani
Prof. Dr. Francesco Castelli-Dezza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AC/DC, DC/AC, and DC/DC converters
- multilevel converters
- modular multilevel converters
- DAB converters
- SiC
- GaN semiconductors
- monolithic bidirectional devices
- wireless power transfer
- HVDC converters
- fast and ultra-fast recharging station
- power converter control
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