{"628079":{"#nid":"628079","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chen, Divan Win IEEE Transactions Top Paper Prize for 2018","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHao Chen and Deepak Divan won the first place prize paper award for 2018 in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics\u003C\/em\u003E. They were presented with this award at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, held September 28-October 1 in Baltimore, Maryland.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth Chen and Divan are affiliated with the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE); Chen is a recent ECE Ph.D. graduate, and Divan is the John E. Pippin Chair Professor in the School and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. The title of their award-winning paper is \u0026ldquo;Soft-Switching Solid-State Transformer (S4T),\u0026rdquo; published in the April 2018 issue of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe idea of a solid-state transformer (SST) has attracted tremendous interest for almost five decades, ever since the principles of power conversion were first understood. The SST is a combination of a high-frequency transformer link and solid-state switching circuits. High-frequency isolation allows for the saving of significant volume and weight of magnetic materials. Conventionally, the SST has been implemented with a three-stage power converter that has high semiconductor device count, hard-switching, and limited voltage conversion ratio.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis paper proposed a new SST power converter topology that uses a minimal number of semiconductor devices and achieves soft-switching power conversion with only one conversion stage. This invention also represents a family of power converters for dc\/dc, single-phase ac to dc, single-phase ac to multi-phase ac, and multi-port structure, all with soft-switching capability \u0026ndash; a desired feature for achieving high converter efficiency and lower electromagnetic noise. This invention can find a wide range of applications including electrified transportation, energy storage, EV fast chargers, and renewable energy integration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChen\u0026rsquo;s and Divan\u0026#39;s paper was selected out of 935 papers published and some 13,000 papers that were submitted to the journal. The work covered by this paper has now become a major research thrust for the Center for Distributed Energy, which is led by Divan. Hao graduated with his Ph.D. in ECE from Georgia Tech in 2016 and is now a staff electronic design engineer at Tesla in Palo Alto, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E#####\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhoto cutline:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Pictured left to right are Hao Chen of Tesla and Deepak Divan of Georgia Tech, the coauthors of the 2018 best paper award for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics\u003C\/em\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;Yaow-Ming Chen from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. 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