Electronics | Highly Cited Papers in 2022 in the Section “Power Electronics”

Many forms of powered electronics can convert and control electricity: electrical drives and generators; renewable energy systems; energy storage systems; smart cities and grids; power systems; transport (vehicles, aircraft, ships, and others); industrial, medical, military, telecommunications, and consumable devices, and home apparatus.

“Power Electronics” Section is devoted to publishing original research and state-of-the-art review papers on the emerging technologies and trends in this field, including the components, circuits, design, modeling, simulation, control, implementation, testing, and analysis of power electronics and their applications.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below.

1. “Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations: A Historical Overview of Engineering Challenges”
by Franc Mihalič, Mitja Truntič and Alenka Hren
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2462; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152462
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2462

2. “A Review of Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Electric Vehicle Battery Charging with a Focus on Inductive Coupling”
by Iman Okasili, Ahmad Elkhateb and Timothy Littler
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1355; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091355
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1355

3. “A Survey on Capacitor Voltage Control in Neutral-Point-Clamped Multilevel Converters”
by Salvador Alepuz, Sergio Busquets-Monge, Joan Nicolás-Apruzzese, Àlber Filbà-Martínez, Josep Bordonau, Xibo Yuan and Samir Kouro
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 527; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040527
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/527

4. “Overview of Virtual Synchronous Generators: Existing Projects, Challenges, and Future Trends”
by Mohamed Abuagreb, Mohammed F. Allehyani and Brian K. Johnson
Electronics 2022, 11(18), 2843; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11182843
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/18/2843

5. “A Review of the State of the Art of Industrial Microgrids Based on Renewable Energy”
by Daniel Gutiérrez-Oliva, Antonio Colmenar-Santos and Enrique Rosales-Asensio
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1002; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071002
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1002

6. “Progress on Second-Generation High-Temperature Superconductor Tape Targeting Resistive Fault Current Limiter Application”
by Jiamin Zhu, Sikan Chen and Zhijian Jin
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 297; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030297
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/297

7. “Multiple-Output DC–DC Converters: Applications and Solutions”
by Salvador P. Litrán, Eladio Durán, Jorge Semião and Cristian Díaz-Martín
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1258; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081258
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1258

8. “Stochastic Optimal Strategy for Power Management in Interconnected Multi-Microgrid Systems”
by Mahshid Javidsharifi, Hamoun Pourroshanfekr Arabani, Tamas Kerekes, Dezso Sera and Josep M. Guerrero
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1424; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091424
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1424

9. “A Novel Adaptive PID Controller Design for a PEM Fuel Cell Using Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum Enhanced by Whale Optimizer”
by Mohammed Yousri Silaa, Oscar Barambones and Aissa Bencherif
Electronics 2022, 11(16), 2610; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162610
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/16/2610