UC Santa Cruz · Baskin School of Engineering

Ellis Power Group
Power Electronics

With over 40% of all society's energy consumed within the electric power sector, power electronics is very often either the bottleneck or key enabler for an extremely diverse range of applications, incluiding renewable integration, electric vehicles, portable and biomedical devices, data centers, aerospace, etc.

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Featured Conference Presentations

Selected talks and presentations from the Ellis Power Group.

Split-Phase Control for Data-Centers

Modified Split-Phase Switching with Improved Fly Capacitor Utilization in a 48V-to-PoL Dual Inductor Hybrid-Dickson Converter

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Synchronous Boot-Strapping for High-Side Gate Drive Power Delivery

A Synchronous Boot-Strapping Technique with Increased On-Time and Improved Efficiency for High-side Gate-drive Power Delivery

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Dickson vs. Cockcroft-Walton

A Resonant Dual Extended LC-Tank Dickson Converter with 50% Two-Phase Operation at Odd Conversion Ratios [Best Technical Lecture Award]

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Closed-Loop Split-Phase Control

Closed-Loop Split-Phase Control Applied to the Symmetric Dual Inductor Hybrid (SDIH) Converter

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Regenerative Snubbing in Multi-Level Converters

Presented at the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2022.

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Achieving ZVS at Light-Load

Reducing COSS Switching Loss in a GaN-based Resonant Cockcroft-Walton Converter Using Resonant Charge Redistribution

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Resonant Gate Drivers

A Resonant Gate Driver with Variable Gain and a Capacitively Decoupled High-Side GaN-FET

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