Power Electronics for Advanced Renewable Systems Laboratory
Ting-Yu Lin received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Ilan University (NIU), Taiwan, in 2021. She is currently a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. Her research focus is on loss analysis of dc-dc converters.
Mina Kim, Sangkyu Kwak, Katherine A. Kim and Jee-Hoon Jung, “Enhanced Computation Performance of Photovoltaic Models for Power Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 6952-6961, Aug. 2021. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Hoejeong Jeong, Seungbin Park, Jeehoon Jung, Taewon Kim, A-Rong Kim, and Katherine A. Kim, “Segmented Differential Power Processing Converter Unit and Control Algorithm for Photovoltaic Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 7797-7809, July 2021. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Yu-Chen Liu, Meng-Chi Tsai, Ying-Jiun Chen, Katherine A. Kim, Chen Chen, and Nguyen Anh Dung, “Design and Implementation of a Stepped Air-Gap Inductor for Buck Converters,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Phoenix, AZ, USA, June 2021, pp. 875-880, doi: 10.1109/APEC42165.2021.9487053. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Katherine A. Kim, Lauren E. Kegley, Stephanie Watts Butler, Nayara Brandao de Freitas and Christina DiMarino, “Women in IEEE PELS: Learning From the Past, Defining the Future [Women in Engineering],” in IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 70-75, June 2021. (IEEE Xplore Link)
F. Selin Bagci and Katherine A. Kim, “Burst-Mode Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for Low-Power Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Applications,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress Exposition Asia, Singapore, May 2021, pp. 1-6. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Yu-Chen Liu, Chen Chen, Kai-De Chen, Yong-Long Syu, De-Jia Lu, Katherine A. Kim, and Huang-Jen Chiu, “Design and Implementation of a Planar Transformer with Fractional Turns for High Power Density LLC Resonant Converters,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 2111-2123, May 2021. (IEEE Xplore Link)
F. Selin Bagci, Katherine A. Kim, Ting-Yu Lin and Yu-Chen Liu, “Power Profile Measurement and System Design Analysis for a Wearable Photovoltaic Application,” International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference – ECCE Asia, Nanjing, China, Dec. 2020, pp. 1469-1474. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Yu-Chen Liu, Chen Chen, Yu-Chen Chung, Meng-Chi Tsai, and Katherine A. Kim, “Integrated Magnetics Design for an Interleaved Three-Phase Buck Converter,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, USA, Oct. 2020, pp. 4533-4538. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Taiwei Chen received his B.S. degree in Engineering Science from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). He earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (UTSA), where he was involved in research on EMI/EMC performance in power electronics. His Master’s thesis was on “Inductor Design for Common-mode and Differential Mode Inductors” published in Dec. 2014. He has more than 6 years of experience in inverter circuit design, product testing and certification as an electrical engineer in the renewable energy industry. He is pursuing his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. His research interests include energy harvesting power electronics, electric vehicles, improvement of microinverters, and electric power subsystem design of nano-satellites.
Papers:
Yu-Chen Liu, Yong-Long Syu, Nguyen Anh Dung, Chen-Chen, Kai-De Chen and Katherine A. Kim, “High Switching Frequency TCM Digital Control for Bidirectional Interleaved Buck Converters Without Phase Error for Battery Charging,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 2111-2123, Sept. 2020. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Selin Bagci received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018 from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea. She received the M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2020 from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taiwan. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. Her research interests are in dc-dc converter development and control for photovoltaic energy harvesting applications.
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Bokyung Yoon received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in 2018 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from UNIST in 2020. Her research interests are in analysis, control, and hardware development for energy harvesting power electronics.
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The IEEE IA/IE/PELS Joint Chapter in Kerala, India, invited Prof. Katherine Kim to give a webinar on “Differential Power Processing DC-DC Converters for Solar Photovoltaic Applications” on May 18, 2020. The Chapter in Kerala is very active and the webinar was well attended by the members, with over 100 attendees. Thanks to the chapter organizers for their great efforts.
Yu-Chen Liu, Chen Chen, Kai-De Chen, Lin, De-Jia Lu, Katherine A. Kim, and Huang-Jen Chiu. “Series Resonant Converter (串聯諧振式轉換器 ),” Taiwan Patent, April 21 , 2020.
Yu-Chen Liu, Kai-De Chen, Chen Chen, Yong-Long Syu, Guan-Wei Lin, Katherine A. Kim
Every year, Prof. Katherine A. Kim teaches a power electronics course. As part of the course, there is a photo contest. The photos for the Fall 2019 Introduction to Power Electronics has been posted and are open for voting.
The class’s photos and descriptions are posted here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/72392935@N06/albums/72157712084784577
Based on the photos and descriptions, vote on your favorites here:
Voting Form – Introduction to Power Electronics Photo Contest
Voting will be open until December 18 at midnight. Participation is open to everyone, but one vote per person.
Prof. Katherine A. Kim was recognized as an Innovator Under 35 for the Asia Pacific Region by the MIT Technology Review for 2020 for “Developing power electronics and control to maximize solar photovoltaic power for emerging applications”. She will give a short talk on her work at EmTech Asia in Singapore in February 2020.
Prof. Katherine A. Kim gave a seminar on “Differential Power Processing DC-DC Converters for Solar Photovoltaic Applications” at University of Macau in Macau, China. Prof. Kim was invited by Prof. Chi-Seng Lam of the State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI & Institute of Microelectronics at the University of Macau. The seminar was supported by the IEEE Macau IES Chapter.
Prof. Katherine A. Kim attended the IEEE International Future Energy Electronics Conference in Singapore, on November 25-28, 2019. Prof. Kim served on the organizing committee as the Tutorial Co-Chair.
On November 25, she chaired the tutorials entitled “Multi‐Cell & Multi-Level Power Converters ‐ A Way to Go Beyond the Limits” by Prof. Petar J. Grbović from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and the tutorial entitled “Recent Advances in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines for Applications in Automotive and Renewable Energy Systems” by Dr. Rukmi Dutta and Prof. Faz Rahman, from the University of New South Wales, Australia. On November 27, Prof. Kim also served as a chair for Technical Session 22 (C2‐RET3): Renewable Energy Technologies 3.
