Pursuits of miniaturization, greater performance, and lower cost for power electronics
necessitate advancement of power passive component technologies. While wide-bandgap …

Piezoelectric components offer several potential advantages to power conversion including
high power density and efficiency capabilities compared to magnetics at small scales …

This paper describes emerging approaches in the design of power electronics aiming to
address the twin challenges of miniaturization and efficiency through the use of piezoelectric …

Recent studies in electroaerodynamic (EAD) propulsion have stimulated the need for
lightweight power converters providing outputs at tens of kilovolts and hundreds of watts …

A control system to achieve zero-voltage switching (ZVS) for an inductorless half-bridge
piezoelectric transformer-based resonant power supply is presented. Both the phase and …

The inductorless piezoelectric transformer (PT)-based resonant converter topology allows all
the components between the half-bridge inverter and rectifier in a conventional LCC …

Recent studies in electro-aerodynamic (EAD) propulsion have stimulated the need for
lightweight power converters providing outputs at tens of kilovolts and hundreds of watts …

Soft switching is required to attain high efficiency in high-frequency power converters.
Piezoelectric-transformer-based converters can benefit from soft switching in terms of …

Light-emitting diode (LED) illumination is getting more and more common; as LED's
performance is rising, the price is falling and is getting competitive. Some of the challenges …

Inductorless switch mode power supplies based on piezoelectric transformers are used to
replace conventional transformers in high power density switch mode power supplies. Even …