ECE 581: High Frequency Power Electronics
Course Schedule
Updated 10:22 November 18, 2020. Tentative lecture schedule, including links to lecture slides and notes, and links to assignments. The schedule is subject to change, please check frequently.
Aug. 17
L1 - Aug. 19
- Syllabus and Course Introduction
L2 - Aug. 21
- Course Introduction (continued)
Intro to switching loss
L3 - Aug. 24
- Course Introduction (continued)
Reverse recovery and Schottky diodes
L4 - Aug. 26
- Course Introduction (continued)
Intro to soft switching and resonant conversion
L5 - Aug. 28
- Course Introduction (finish)
Practical limitations of soft switching
L6 - Aug. 31
- Hard switching loss analysis
Gate charge loss
L7 - Sep. 2
- Hard switching loss analysis
Overlap loss
L8 - Sep. 4
- Hard switching loss analysis
Overlap loss (turn-off)
L9 - Sep. 7
- Online-only Lecture
Coss loss
Analysis of nonlinear capacitances
L10 - Sep. 9
- Online-only Lecture
Coss loss
Hard-switching nonlinear Coss analysis
Note: Lecture recording from 2018
L11 - Sep. 11
- Online-only Lecture
Introduction to State Plane Analysis
Notes on State Plane Analysis from Prof. Erickson
L12 - Sep. 14
- Online-only Lecture
DCM buck state plane example
L13 - Sep. 16
- Online-only Lecture
DCM buck state plane example, M<0.5
L14 - Sep. 18
- Online-only Lecture
DCM buck state plane example, M>0.5
Synchronous buck state plane
L15 - Sep. 21
- Online-only Lecture
Synchronous buck complete state plane
Supplemental Notes on ZVS Synchronous Buck
Matlab code examples for sync buck
L16 - Sep. 23
- Online-only Lecture
Flyback converter: leakage stress
L17 - Sep. 25
- Online-only Lecture
Flyback converter: clamping strategies
L18 - Sep. 28
- Online-only Lecture
Active clamp flyback analysis
L19 - Sep. 30
- Online-only Lecture
Introduction to ac-link topologies
The DAB converter
L20 - Oct. 2
- Online-only Lecture
DAB converter state plane analysis
L21 - Oct. 5
- Online-only Lecture
DAB converter Examples
Transformer saturation
The SRC converter
L22 - Oct. 7
- The SRC converter: State plane solution
SRC LTSpice simulation from lecture
MATLAB example SRC state plane solution script
L23 - Oct. 9
- Sinusoidal analysis: Inverter
L24 - Oct. 12
- Sinusoidal analysis: Complete circuit
L25 - Oct. 14
- Sinusoidal analysis: SRC Tank
Tiny Box Challenge Begins
L26 - Oct. 16
- Sinusoidal analysis: Comparison of tank circuits
Example references on ZVS Assist circuits
- ARCP cells
- ZVS tanks for WPT
- Example paralleled converters for ZVS extension
- Example topology modification for extended ZVS range
L27 - Oct. 19
- Residual switching loss
The resonant switch
L28 - Oct. 21
- ZVS-QR switch cell
Oct. 23
- No Lecture -- Additional Office Hours
L29 - Oct. 26
- Multiresonant switch cell
Identification of the switch cell
L30 - Oct. 28
- Online-only Lecture
Small-signal modeling of quasi-resonant converters
L31 - Oct. 30
- Online-only Lecture
Introduction to switched capacitor converters
L32 - Nov. 2
- Online-only Lecture
Switched capacitor charging comparison
L33 - Nov. 4
- Online-only Lecture
Hybrid and resonant 2:1 SC converters
SSL and FSL
L34 - Nov. 6
- No synchronous lecture
Supplemental recordings (optional) available here
L35 - Nov. 9
- No synchronous lecture
Supplemental recordings (optional) available here
L36 - Nov. 11
- Online-only Lecture
Switched capacitor topologies
Charge vector analysis
L37 - Nov. 13
- Online-only Lecture
Charge vector analysis: finding Ro
Dickson converter charge vector analysis
L38 - Nov. 16
- Online-only Lecture
SC simulation comparison
Hybrid and split-phase operation
Note: Lecture slides lost, partial recording due to PC crash
L39 - Nov. 18
- Online-only Lecture
Hybrid and split-phase operation -- Finish
Intro to discrete time modeling: Averaging Approximation
L40 - Nov. 20
- Online-only Lecture
Intro to discrete time modeling
L41 - Nov. 23
- Online-only Lecture
Intro to discrete time modeling
Course conclusions
Nov. 25
Nov. 27
Nov. 30
- TNVoice Evaluations Due
Dec. 2
Dec. 4