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Professor Erickson's research has spanned numerous areas within power electronics, and has included collaboration with many students and colleagues. 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó results collected in these pages are arranged in the following broad topics:

  • Power electronics for building-integrated photovoltaics
  • Studies of the benefits of distributed maximum power point tracking
  • Modeling, design, and control of converters for solar applications
  • Wind power applications of power electronics
  • Composite converter architectures: beyond multilevel modular conversion
  • Electric vehicle power electronics
  • Low-harmonic rectifiers: modeling and control
  • Integrated high-quality rectifier-regulators
  • Three-phase low-harmonic rectifiers
  • Modeling, analysis, and control of resonant converters
  • Resonant switch converters
  • Modeling, control, and design of PWM power converters
  • Magnetics modeling
  • Power-conservative networks
A BIPV 250 W boost converter

Solar: A BIPV 250 W boost converter with MPPT is 7 mm thick and fits inside a residential roof shingle.

Graph comparing efficiency vs. power for conventional boost vs. composite converter, where the efficiency of a composite converter increases exponentially starting at 3 kW and levels around 97%, and a conventional boost begins to exponentially increase at 0 kW and maximizes at 98% efficiency.

EV: Comparison of efficiency vs. power for conventional boost (solid line) vs. composite converter (experimental data points), 250 V : 650 V, 30 kW rated converters. It is remarkable that 98% efficiency is maintained down to nearly zero power.