Advances in Low Power and High Power Electronics

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on recent advances in low-power and high-power electronics and solicit your high-quality research and review articles for this collection.

Advances in Low-Power Electronics:

Rapid advances in semiconductor technologies over the past four decades have fostered the massive proliferation of personal, portable, and mobile electronic systems based on low-power electronics on a global scale. Transistor dimensions have reduced by more than 700 times within about 4 decades: the first commercial Intel 4004 microprocessor in 1971 used a 10 µm (10000 nm) process technology, while the 10th-generation Intel core-family microprocessor in 2020 uses a 14 nm process technology. Continuous reduction in transistor dimensions and constant advances in semiconductors, electronic devices, circuits, sub-systems, systems, and memories have paved the way for the relentless progress of low-power electronics, which fuels digitalization in the modern era. Research in low-power electronics is multi-faceted. This Special Issue invites fundamental and applied research works on all aspects of low-power electronics including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Digital circuits and systems
• Digital signal processing
• Analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems
• Beyond CMOS technologies: nanoelectronics, molecular electronics, optical computing, spintronics and spin-based computing, biologically inspired computing, quantum devices, etc.
• Neuromorphic circuits and systems
• Biomedical circuits and systems
• Circuits and system architectures for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications
• Near- and sub-threshold circuits and systems
• Non-linear circuits and systems
• Communication circuits and systems
• Sensors and sensory networks
• Electronics for Internet of Things (IoT) and smart medical devices

Advances in High-Power Electronics:

Long-term environmental concerns, population growth, and increased energy demand urge the development of clean- and green-energy-based power generation. High-power electronics plays a vital role in integrating the various renewable energy resources into the grid to address the current energy crisis. Solar and wind are the fastest-developing sources of renewable energy. The grid should be able to accommodate such renewables without losing its reliability and robustness. The smart grid is an enhanced version of the conventional electricity grid which enables energy security and reliability and the integration of various renewable energy resources. Therefore, the future grid will pave the way for CO₂ reduction and clean energy deployment.

This Special Issue will focus on recent trends and innovations in high-power electronic technologies such as integration of rooftop PV, floating PV, and onshore and offshore wind farms, energy storage systems, novel concepts in high-power electronics, fault ride through, state of the art of fault-tolerant converters, smart inverters, electric vehicle charging, microgrids, distributed energy resources control and integration, smart grids, high-performance and high-power density converters for energy-efficient systems for future power systems.

The Special Issue will investigate the following topics regarding high-power electronics, but contributions in related fields will also be considered:

• Fault-tolerant converters for renewable energy systems
• Electric vehicle charging technologies
• Power electronics using emerging device technologies such as GaN, SiC, etc.
• Power electronics for microgrids
• Power electronic applications in smart grids
• Power electronics for offshore windfarms integration
• Advanced power electronic interface for PV
• Energy storage systems
• Smart inverters
• High-power density converters
• Distributed energy resources control and integration
• Fault ride-through capability of advanced power converters

Dr. Thaiyal Naayagi Ramasamy
Dr. Padmanabhan Balasubramanian
Guest Editors

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