Advanced Power Electronics Technology: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, power electronics play a crucial role in our daily lives. They enable large renewable energy, such as photovoltaic and wind power integration, flexible power transmission, and high-efficiency power distribution and utilization. Advanced technologies, such as competitive topologies, new generation switching devices, and control technologies, to name a few, are developing rapidly every day.

Modular structure-based high-voltage high-power DC/DC converters are one research topic of significant interest. These converters achieve direct DC/DC power conversion and are essential to future DC grids. The wide-bandgap devices, such as GaN and SiC, have lower switching losses, higher blocking voltage, etc., compared to Si devices. One typical application is the small-size power adapter. In recent years, unconventional control strategies, such as fuzzy control, predictive control, and neural networks control, have been applied widely in power electronics systems, bringing new possibilities and increasing control performance. All these advanced power electronics technologies present a strong support for the modern power grid.

This Special Issue, titled “Advanced Power Electronics Technology: 2nd Edition”, invites you to submit papers on, but not limited to, the following topics of interest:

1. Converter and control: DC/AC converter, modulation, and control;
2. Power devices and applications: Si, SiC, and GaN devices;
3. Control, modelling, simulation, system stability, and reliability;
4. Advanced controls for grid-forming/grid-following power electronics converters in the presence of disturbances, unbalances, offsets, harmonics, etc.;
5. Advanced controls for high-performance electrical drive systems;
6. Advanced controls of multi-level or multi-stack power converters;
7. Advanced controls of AC, DC, or hybrid AC/DC microgrids;
8. Conversion technologies for renewable energy and energy saving;
9. Power electronics for electric vehicles, railway, marine, airplane, etc.;
10. Power electronics for transmission and distribution;
11. Power electronics for wireless power transfer;
12. Power quality and harmonic controls;
13. Advanced control solutions for power electronics-dominated power systems;
14. Integration of renewables (hydropower, wind power, solar power, etc.) by using advanced power electronics control schemes;
15. Advanced controls of power electronics system for battery storage, supercapacitors, fuel-cells, fly wheels, etc.;
16. Advanced controls of power electronics systems for intelligent charging (V1G), vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications, vehicle-to-home (V2H) applications, etc.;
17. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) testing of advanced power electronics-based controllers;
18. Finding equivalence between ADRC and classic control concepts and tools;
19. Switching power supply: DC/DC converter and power factor correction converter;
20. Others.

We look forward to your submissions.

Prof. Dr. Wenzhong Ma
Dr. Xingtian Feng
Dr. Shuguang Song
Guest Editors

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