Publications and Patents

2006 Publications

M. Amrhein, P. T. Krein, P. L. Chapman, and B. I. Fierro, “Motor re-rating for traction applications – evaluation of re-rated induction machines,” IEEE Ind. Applicat. Mag., to be published.

R. S. Balog, “Autonomous local control in distributed dc power systems,” Tech. Rep. UILU-ENG-2006-2509, CEME-TR-06-03, April 2006.

R. S. Balog and J. W. Kimball, “Printed circuit board design for power electronics,” IEEE Power Electronics Society Newsletter, to be published.

R. S. Balog and P. T. Krein, “Commutation technique for high-frequency link cycloconverter,” IEEE Power Electronics Letters, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 101-104, Sept. 2005.

R. S. Balog, W. W. Weaver, and P. T. Krein, “The load as an energy asset in a distributed architecture,” in IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium, July 2005, pp. 261-267.

R. S. Balog, W. W. Weaver, and P. T. Krein, “Control strategies to use the load as a dynamic energy asset in a distributed architecture,” presented as a poster at EPNES Grantees Workshop,
Dec. 2005.

N. D. Benavides and P. L. Chapman, “Power budgeting in a multiple-input buck-boost converter,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 20, no.6, pp. 1303-1309, November 2005.

Y. Chen, J.W. Kimball, and P.T. Krein, “Non-unity active PFC methods for filter size optimization,” in Proc. Applied Power Electronics Conf., 2006, pp. 268-272.

X. Cheng, T.J. Overbye, “PTDF-based power system equivalents,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. PWRS-20, pp. 1868-1876, November 2005.

A. Davoudi, J. Jatskevitch, and P.L. Chapman, “Considering source dynamics in computer-aided parametric average-value modeling of PWM converters,” in IEEE Computers in Power Electronics Workshop, July 2006, in press.

T. Esram and P.L. Chapman, “Comparison of photovoltaic array maximum power point tracking methods,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, in press. Expected publication date, September, 2006.

T. Esram, J.W. Kimball, P.T. Krein, P.L. Chapman, and P. Midya, “Dynamic maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic arrays with ripple correlation control,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, to be published.

S. Grijalva and P. W. Sauer, “A Necessary Condition for Static Collapse Based on Branch Complex Flows,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 52, no. 7, July 2005, pp. 1406-1413.

S. R. Harper, D. L. Thurston, P. T. Krein, “The effects of dynamic residential load participation: penetration levels for operational impact on reliability,” International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, to be published.

S. J. Hong, P.L. Chapman, P.T. Krein, and K. Kim “Selective-area growth and fabrication of recessed-gate MESFET using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy,” presented at the 6th
International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors, Bremen, Germany, August 28, 2005.

S.J. Hong, P.L. Chapman, P.T. Krein, and K. Kim, “Selective-area growth and fabrication of recessed-gate GaN MESFET using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy,” Journal of Physica Status Solidi (a), vol. 203, no. 7, pp. 1872-1875, May 2006.

S.J. Hong and K. Kim, “Low-resistance ohmic contacts for high-power GaN field-effect transistors obtained by selective area growth using plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy,” Applied Physics Letters, 89, (2006)

J. W. Kimball and M. Amrhein, “Machine design considerations for the Future Energy Challenge,” in Proc. Electrical Manufacturing Conf., 2005, pp. 448-453.

J. W. Kimball, P. T. Krein, and K. R. Cahill, “Modeling of capacitor impedance in switching converters,” IEEE Power Electronics Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp.136-140, December 2005.

J. W. Kimball, P. T. Krein, and Y. Chen, “Hysteresis and delta modulation control of converters using sensorless current mode,” IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1154-1158,
May 2006.

J. Kimball, A. Kwasinski, J. Mossoba, B. Nee, Z. Sorchini, W. Weaver, J. Wells, G. Zhang, “Modular inverter for advanced control applications,” Tech. Rep. UILU-ENG-2006-2504, CEME-TR-06-01,
May 2006.

P. T. Krein, “Introduction to power electronics,” in Power Electronics: Devices, Circuits, and Applications Handbook, 2nd ed., M. Rashid, Ed. New York: Academic Press, in press.

B. T. Kuhn, G. E. Pitel, and P. T. Krein, “Electrical Properties and Equalization of Lithium-Ion Cells in Automotive Applications,” in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, Sept. 7-9, 2005, pp. 55-59.

B. T. Kuhn, R. Spee, and P. T. Krein, “Lifetime effects of voltage and voltage imbalance on VRLA batteries in cable TV network power,” in Proc. IEEE Int’l. Telecommunications Energy Conf., 2005.

A. Kwasinski and P. T. Krein, “A Microgrid-based Telecom Power System using Modular Multiple-Input DC-DC Converters,” in Proc. IEEE Int’l. Telecommunications Energy Conf., 2005, Sept. 2005, pp. 515-520.

A. Kwasinski and P. T. Krein, “An Integrated 42-V Drive Design for Automobile Loads with a Low-Distortion Overmodulation Strategy,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 648-658, May 2006.

M.J. Meinhart, “Microcontroller implementation of modulation-based selective harmonic elimination,” Tech. Rep. UILU-ENG-2006-2508, CEME-TR-06-02, April 2006.

J. T. Mossoba, “Modeling and control of Multiphase dc-dc converters with linkages to hybrid control,” Tech. Rep. UILU-ENG-2005-2509, CEME-TR-05-04, September 2005.

S. Musunuri, “Development of monolithic dc-dc converters,” Tech. Rep. UILU-ENG-2005-2504, CEME-TR-05-02, July 2005.

P. Niu and P.L. Chapman, “Design and performance of linear biomechanical energy conversion devices,” in IEEE Power Electronics Spec. Conference, 2006, pp. 1557-1562.

T. J. Overbye, “The role of power system visualization in enhancing power system security,” in Real-Time Stability in Power Systems: Techniques for Early Detection of the Risk of Blackout, S.C. Savulescu Ed. New York: Springer, 2005, pp. 293-314.

T. J. Overbye, “Power system visualization,” Automation of Electric Power Systems, vol. 29, no. 16, August 2005.

T. J. Overbye, A. P. Meliopoulos, D. A. Wiegmann, and G. J. Cokkinides, “Visualization of power systems and components,” Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Report 05-65, 2005.

T.J. Overbye, D.A. Wiegmann, “Reducing the risk of major blackouts through improved power system visualization,” in Proc. 2005 Power Systems Computational Conference (PSCC), Liege, Belgium, August 2005.

J. D. Owens and P. L. Chapman, “Automatic generation of accurate low-order models for magnetic devices,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 732-742, July 2005.

G. Pitel, Performance analysis of lithium ion batteries,” Tech. Rep. UILU-ENG-2005-2511, CEME-TR-05-06, October 2005.

L. Qu and P. L. Chapman, “Extraction of low-order nonlinear inductor models from a high-order physics-based representation,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 21, no.3, pp. 813-817, May 2006.

L. Qu and P. L. Chapman, “Extraction of Dynamic Low-Order Nonlinear Inductor Models Based on Steady-State Solutions,” in Proc. 37th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, pp. 608-616, Jun 18-22. 2006.

B. C. Raczkowski and Peter W. Sauer, “Doubly-fed induction machine analysis for power flow control,” in Proceedings 2005 EMCWA Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, October 25-26, 2005, pp. 454-459.

J. P. Stovall, B. J. Kirby, T. J. Overbye, J. S. Thorp, and A. G. Phadke, “Issues associated with the development of a wide-area analysis and visualization environment,” in Proc. 39th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, Poipu, HI, January 2006.

W. J. E. Tate and T. J. Overbye, “A comparison of the optimal multiplier in polar and rectangular coordinates,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. PWRS-20, pp. 1667-1674,
November 2005.

W. W. Weaver, P. T. Krein, “Mitigation of voltage collapse through active dynamic buffers,” International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, to be published.

J. R. Wells, B. M. Nee, P. L. Chapman, and P. T. Krein, “Harmonic elimination control: a more general formulation and new solutions,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronic Electronics, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1337-1345, Nov. 2005.

J. R. Wells, “Generalized selective harmonic control,” Tech. Rep. UILU-ENG-2006-2510, CEME-TR-06-04, May 2006.

D.A. Wiegmann, G.R. Essenberg, T.J. Overbye, Y. Sun, “Human factor aspects of power system flow animation,” IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. PWRS-20, pp. 1233-1240, August 2005.

W. D. A. Wiegmann, T. J. Overbye, S. M. Hoppe, G. R. Essenberg, and Y. Sun, “Human factors aspects of three-dimensional visualization of power system information,” in Proc. IEEE 2006 General Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, June 18-22, 2006.

R. H. K. Yeu, “Analysis of a multiple-input flyback onverter,” Tech. Rep. UILU-ENG-2005-2510, CEME-TR-05-05, March 2005.

R. H. Yeu and Peter W. Sauer, “Post-contingency equilibrium analysis techniques for power systems,” in Proc. 2005 North American Power Symposium, Ames, Iowa, October 23-25, 2005,
pp. 429-433.

Patents

R. S. Balog and P. T. Krein, “Commutation Technique for an ac-to-ac converter based on state machine control,” US Patent application no. 11/202,597, filed August 11, 2005.

P. T. Krein, “Methods and devices for input waveform control in switching power supplies,”
U.S. Patent 7,030,512, April 2006.