ECE 581: High Frequency Power Electronics
Course Schedule
Updated 12:59 December 12, 2025. Tentative lecture schedule, including links to lecture slides and notes, and links to assignments. The schedule is subject to change, please check frequently.
L1 - Aug. 18
- Syllabus and Course Introduction
L2 - Aug. 20
- Course Introduction (continued)
Intro to switching loss
L3 - Aug. 22
- Course Introduction (continued)
Intro to soft switching and resonant conversion
L4 - Aug. 25
- Course Introduction (finish)
Practical limitations of soft switching
L5 - Aug. 27
- Hard switching loss analysis
Gate charge loss
L6 - Aug. 29
- Hard switching loss analysis
Overlap loss
Sep. 1
- Labor Day
L7 - Sep. 3
- Turn-off overlap loss
Overview of switching loss mechanisms
L8 - Sep. 5
- Double-pulse testing
Coss loss
No recording available
L9 - Sep. 8
- Coss loss
Hard-switching nonlinear Coss analysis
L10 - Sep. 10
- Introduction to State Plane Analysis
Notes on State Plane Analysis from Prof. Erickson
L11 - Sep. 12
- State Plane Analysis; DCM buck example
L12 - Sep. 15
- DCM buck state plane example
Synchronous buck converter
L13 - Sep. 17
- Synchronous buck complete state plane
L14 - Sep. 19
- Synchronous buck state plane solution
L15 - Sep. 22
- Flyback converter: leakage stress
L16 - Sep. 24
- Active clamp flyback analysis
L17 - Sep. 26
- Finish active clamp flyback analysis
L18 - Sep. 29
- Introduction to ac-link topologies
L19 - Oct. 1
- DAB converter state plane analysis
L20 - Oct. 3
- DAB converter Examples
Oct. 6
- Fall Break
L21 - Oct. 8
- The SRC converter
L22 - Oct. 10
- SRC converter examples and DAB comparison
L23 - Oct. 13
- Introduction to switched capacitor converters
L24 - Oct. 15
- Switched capacitor charging comparison
L25 - Oct. 17
- Hybrid and resonant 2:1 SC converters
SSL and FSL
L26 - Oct. 20
- Switched capacitor topologies
Charge vector analysis
L27 - Oct. 22
- Charge vector analysis: finding Ro
Dickson converter charge vector analysis
L28 - Oct. 24
- Hybrid and split-phase operation
L29 - Oct. 27
- Capacitor component selection
L30 - Oct. 29
- Introduction to sinusoidal analysis
L31 - Oct. 31
- Sinusoidal analysis: equivalent circuits
Nov. 3
- No Lecture: TBC Layout Time
Nov. 5
- No Lecture: TBC Layout Time
Nov. 7
- No Lecture: TBC Layout Time
L32 - Nov. 10
- Sinusoidal analysis: SRC and PRC tanks
L33 - Nov. 12
- Sinusoidal analysis: comparison of tanks
L34 - Nov. 14
- The resonant switch
ZVS-QR switch cell
L35 - Nov. 17
- ZVS-QR switch cell solution
L36 - Nov. 19
- ZVS-QR switch cell solution
L37 - Nov. 21
- Identification of the switch cell
Small-signal modeling of quasi-resonant converters
L38 - Nov. 24
- Finish Small-signal modeling of quasi-resonant converters
Nov. 26
- Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 28
- Thanksgiving Break
L39 - Dec. 1
- Introduction to Discrete Time Modeling
Dec. 3
- Study Day
Dec. 5
Dec. 8
- Final Exam (Tuesday Dec 9th)
Dec. 10
Dec. 12