{"id":142,"date":"2021-11-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/?p=142"},"modified":"2026-11-13T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T04:43:19","slug":"high-efficiency-composite-converters-for-electric-drivetrains-pels-distinguished-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"High-Efficiency Composite Converters for Electric Drivetrains (PELS Distinguished Lecture)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PPPEAC hosted an IEEE PELS Distinguished Lecture on Monday, November 15, 2021, from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. The lecture ran on Zoom, hosted by Princeton University. Prof. Dragan Maksimovi&#263; of the University of Colorado Boulder was the speaker.<\/p>\n<h3>High-Efficiency, High-Density Composite Converters for Electric Drivetrain Applications<\/h3>\n<p>The talk covers composite SiC power converter designs that reduce device stress and passive component size in electric vehicle and electrified aircraft drivetrains. It presents a design method and a 125 kW prototype. The prototype reaches 21.3 kW\/L power density and 99% drive-cycle weighted efficiency.<\/p>\n<h3>About the speaker<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Prof. Dragan Maksimovi&#263;<\/strong> is a Professor and the Director of the Colorado Power Electronics Center (CoPEC) at the University of Colorado Boulder.<\/p>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/fa084ff7efe7\/intel-carbon-footprint-4511329\">Original newsletter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPPEAC hosted an IEEE PELS Distinguished Lecture on Monday, November 15, 2021, from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. The lecture ran on Zoom, hosted by Princeton University. Prof. Dragan Maksimovi&#263; of the University of Colorado Boulder was the speaker. High-Efficiency, High-Density &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/?p=142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieee-pppeac.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}