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Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski

Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
55
Citations
12018
World Ranking
2174
National Ranking
847

Overview

Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, complemented by work in Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, including:

  • Advanced DC-DC Converters
  • Multilevel Inverters and Converters
  • Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
  • Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Semiconductor materials and devices

Recent publications illustrate ongoing contributions to power electronics and energy systems. Selected papers include:

  • Design of a GaN-Based Interleaved Nine-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter for Electric Aircraft Applications, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • Investigation of Capacitor Voltage Balancing in Practical Implementations of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • Giant energy storage and power density negative capacitance superlattices, 2024, Nature
  • Modeling and Comparison of Passive Component Volume of Hybrid Resonant Switched-Capacitor Converters, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • High-efficiency cooling via the monolithic integration of copper on electronic devices, 2022, Nature Electronics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski include:

  • Nathan M. Ellis
  • Ting Ge
  • Zichao Ye
  • Nathan C. Brooks
  • Samantha Coday

The principal venues where their work is published include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)
  • IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics
  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • 2021 IEEE 22nd Workshop on Control and Modelling of Power Electronics (COMPEL)

Best Publications

  • Ultrawide-Bandgap Semiconductors: Research Opportunities and Challenges

    J. Y. Tsao;S. Chowdhury;M. A. Hollis;D. Jena

  • Opportunities and Challenges in Very High Frequency Power Conversion

    David J. Perreault;Jingying Hu;Juan M. Rivas;Yehui Han

  • Very-High-Frequency Resonant Boost Converters

    R. Pilawa-Podgurski;A.D. Sagneri;J.M. Rivas;D.I. Anderson

  • Submodule Integrated Distributed Maximum Power Point Tracking for Solar Photovoltaic Applications

    R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski;D. J. Perreault

  • A 2-kW Single-Phase Seven-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter With an Active Energy Buffer

    Yutian Lei;Christopher Barth;Shibin Qin;Wen-Chuen Liu

  • A General Method for Analyzing Resonant and Soft-Charging Operation of Switched-Capacitor Converters

    Yutian Lei;Robert Carl Nikolai Pilawa-Podgurski

  • Merged Two-Stage Power Converter With Soft Charging Switched-Capacitor Stage in 180 nm CMOS

    R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski;D. J. Perreault

  • Merged two-stage power converterarchitecture with softcharging switched-capacitor energy transfer

    R.C.N. Pilawa-Podgurski;D.M. Giuliano;D.J. Perreault

  • Toward high-energy-density, high-efficiency, and moderate-temperature chip-scale thermophotovoltaics

    Walker R. Chan;Peter Bermel;Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski;Christopher H. Marton

  • Split-Phase Control: Achieving Complete Soft-Charging Operation of a Dickson Switched-Capacitor Converter

    Yutian Lei;Ryan May;Robert Pilawa-Podgurski

  • Water immersion cooling of high power density electronics

    Patrick Birbarah;Tarek Gebrael;Thomas Foulkes;Andrew Stillwell

  • A High Power Density Series-Stacked Energy Buffer for Power Pulsation Decoupling in Single-Phase Converters

    Shibin Qin;Yutian Lei;Christopher Barth;Wen-Chuen Liu

  • Investigation of Capacitor Voltage Balancing in Practical Implementations of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converters

    Zichao Ye;Yutian Lei;Zitao Liao;Robert Carl Nikolai Pilawa-Podgurski

  • A Distributed Approach to Maximum Power Point Tracking for Photovoltaic Submodule Differential Power Processing

    Shibin Qin;Stanton T. Cady;Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia;Robert Carl Nikolai Pilawa-Podgurski

  • Design and Control of a GaN-Based, 13-Level, Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter

    Christopher B. Barth;Pourya Assem;Thomas Foulkes;Won Ho Chung

  • An Analytical Method to Evaluate and Design Hybrid Switched-Capacitor and Multilevel Converters

    Yutian Lei;Wen-Chuen Liu;Robert Carl Nikolai Pilawa-Podgurski

  • Enhancing Microinverter Energy Capture With Submodule Differential Power Processing

    Shibin Qin;Christopher B. Barth;Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski

  • Design of a GaN-Based Interleaved Nine-Level Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter for Electric Aircraft Applications

    Tomas Modeer;Nathan Pallo;Thomas Foulkes;Christopher B. Barth

  • The Cascaded Resonant Converter: A Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Topology With High Power Density and Efficiency

    Zichao Ye;Yutian Lei;Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski

  • Experimental Evaluation of Capacitors for Power Buffering in Single-Phase Power Converters

    Christopher B. Barth;Thomas Foulkes;Intae Moon;Yutian Lei

  • Power Converter With Capacitive Energy Transfer And Fast Dynamic Response

    David M. Giuliano;David J. Perreault;Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski

  • A Series-Stacked Power Delivery Architecture With Isolated Differential Power Conversion for Data Centers

    Enver Candan;Pradeep S. Shenoy;Robert C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski

Frequent Co-Authors

Pavan Kumar Hanumolu
Pavan Kumar Hanumolu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nenad Miljkovic
Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia
Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charles R. Sullivan
Charles R. Sullivan Dartmouth College
Philip T. Krein
Philip T. Krein University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew G. Alleyne
Andrew G. Alleyne University of Minnesota
Masataka Higashiwaki
Masataka Higashiwaki Osaka Metropolitan University
Robert Nemanich
Robert Nemanich Arizona State University

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