Section Collection Series: New Horizons and Recent Advances in Power Electronics, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is devoted to publishing new innovative solutions and emerging trends in power electronics (including the components, circuits, design, modeling, simulation, control, implementation, reliability, testing, and analysis of power electronics) for electric drives and generators, renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, smart cities, smart grids, power systems, and transport, industrial, medical, military, telecommunication, consumable, and home apparatuses.

In this Special Issue, we encourage our section Editorial Board Members, Topical Advisory Panel Members, and the related outstanding scholars involved in power electronics to discuss key frontier topics and submit innovative articles in emerging technologies for power electronics. We expect these papers to be widely read and highly influential within the field. All papers in this Special Issue will be collected into a printed edition book after the deadline and will be well-promoted.

The subject areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) Advanced power electronic circuits

• Power electronic circuits: DC/DC, DC/AC, and AC/AC power converters.
• High-frequency and resonant power converters (for high power density and efficiency).
• Multilevel and modular power converters (e.g., MMCs) for high-voltage applications.
• Matrix converters and DC-link-free circuits.

(2) Next-generation power electronic components

• Power electronic components: switching devices, diodes, IGBTs.
• Wide bandgap devices: Modeling, control, and implementation of SiC and GaN.
• Passive components: inductors, capacitors, transformers, filters.
• High-density integration and packaging and thermal management.
• Advanced sensors and measurement techniques.

(3) Intelligent control and modulation

• Power electronic control: modulation techniques, control techniques, control systems.
• Advanced modulation techniques (e.g., predictive PWM, sensorless control).
• Model predictive control (MPC) and its applications.
• Digital and microprocessor control in power electronics systems.

(4) Reliability, monitoring, and digitalization

• Instrumentation, monitoring, and the internet of things (IoT) of power electronics and their applications.
• Diagnosis, prognosis, and health management of power converters.
• Reliability, durability, and lifetime of power electronics.
• EMI/EMC in power electronics.
• Digital twins for real-time modeling and operation.

(5) Artificial intelligence and optimization

• Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in converter design, control, and optimization.
• Optimization techniques for power electronics systems.

(6) Specialized applications and system trends

• Electric drives and generators: high-speed traction, sensorless drives.
• Power electronics for renewable energy systems: wind, solar photovoltaic, etc.
• Power electronics for energy storage systems: Batteries, supercapacitors, flywheels, hydrogen systems, fast charging/discharging systems.
• Power electronics for smart cities and smart grids: Distributed energy resources, microgrids, V2G-V2H-V2L, etc.
• Power electronics for power systems: FACTS, HVDC systems, solid state transformers (SSTs).
• Power electronics for transport applications: electric vehicles (EVs), trains, more electric/hybrid aircraft, ships.
• Power electronics for data centers and wireless power transfer (WPT) applications.
• Power electronics for industrial, medical, military, telecommunication, energy harvesting, consumable, and home appliance applications.

Prof. Dr. Luis M. Fernández-Ramírez
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Abu-Siada
Dr. Jean-Christophe Crebier
Prof. Dr. Carlos E. Ugalde-Loo
Prof. Dr. Eladio Durán Aranda
Prof. Dr. Zhiwei Gao
Guest Editors

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