Advanced Power Electronic Converters for Modern Energy Systems: Architectures, Components, Controllers and Materials

Dear Colleagues,

It is a pleasure to invite you to submit contributions to this new Special Issue entitled “Advanced Power Electronic Converters for modern Energy systems: Architectures, Components, Controllers and Materials”. Power converters play a crucial role in today's life. The increasing electrification in many sectors, from both the industrial and the domestic areas, and the large diffusion of renewable energy sources (with the respective storage systems), leads to a growing necessity of devices for the electric power conversion with high performances under multiple points of view (efficiency, power density, reliability, and costs). The performance optimization of power converters can be carried out by intervening on several aspects: materials (especially for the magnetic parts, to limit the losses of the inductors), components (electronic devices to reduce the switching losses), and architectures (for example, DAB or resonant converters, wired or wireless, to work at high frequency with high efficiency). The advantages achievable in power converter performance by increasing the working frequency drive the development of specific designs for these devices and their sub-components.

For this reason, this Special Issue welcomes all contributions (modeling, numerical simulations, experimental characterization, and prototypes) on materials, components, and architectures that can improve the design of power converters for medium-high frequency (from a few kHz to tens of MHz) applications.

Special session topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Modeling of advanced and innovative power converters;
• Modeling of electronic devices and magnetic materials for power converters;
• Advances in new and more performing magnetic materials for power converters (new generation powder cores, ferrites, 3D printed materials, amorphous cores, nanocrystalline cores);
• Simulations of new, more performing power electronics devices;
• Realization and experimental measurements of new, more performing power converters;
• Wireless power transfer systems;
• New and more performing Architectures for high-frequency power electronic converters;
• Artificial intelligence applied to power electronic converters and their devices;
• Applications of advanced power converters in modern energy

Dr. Vittorio Bertolini
Dr. Fabio Corti
Guest Editors

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