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Power Electronics Laboratory Webpage

1. Silicon Carbide Applications as the Next Generation of Power Electronics
   Sponsored by various companies
2. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) Ancillary Services Provided by Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)
   Sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3. Integration of Distribution Energy Resources with the Grid
   Sponsored by Stanford University's Global Climate and Energy Project
4. High Temperature Gate Drives
   Sponsored by II-VI Foundation
5. Accelerated Reliability Testing of Power Electronic Devices
   Sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
6. An SOI-based High-Voltage,High-Temperature Gate-Driver for SiC FET
   Sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
7. Development of Organic Thin-Film Solar Cells
   Sponsored by Min H. Kao Professorship at The University of Tennessee
8. Multilevel Converter Interface with Solar Panels
   Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

1. Modular Power Electronic Converters as a Utility Interface for Distributed Generation
   
   
2. Reactive Power Compensation and Planning
   
3. DC Distribution System and Placement of Fuel Cells
   
4. Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Inverter Drives Operating under Faulty
   Condition with AI-Based Fault Diagnosis and Reconfiguration
   
5. Diagnostic Technique for Multilevel Inverters Based on Genetic Algorithm
   to Select a Principal Component Neural Network
   
6. Non-active Power Definitions and Active Filtering
   
7. Harmonic Minimization in Multilevel Converters
8. High Performance Motor Drives
9. Evaluation Platform for Real-Time Control of Motor Drives for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (with J. N. Chiasson)
10. Agent-Based Ancilliary Services in a Deregulated Environment (with H. Qi)
11. Power Electronics and Alternator for Advanced Medium-Sized Portable Military Generator Set
12. Multilevel Pulse Width Modulation Techniques
13. Efficiency Modeling of Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Drive Train
14. Multilevel Converters for Large Variable Speed Drives
15. Harmonic Analysis of Electrical Distribution Systems
16. Methods for Estimating Induction Motor Efficiency
17. Reliability of Lightning-Resistant Overhead Lines
18. Computer-Aided Overcurrent Coordination and Protection of Electrical Distribution Systems
19. Dynamic Ampacity Control for the PCAT Facility
20. Permanent Magnet Machine Vector Control With a Real Time PC Interface
21. Fault Diagnosis and Reconfiguration in a Multilevel Inverter Using a Principal Component Neural Network
22. Basic Switching Cells in Power Electronics Inverters
23. Modeling of Silicon Carbide Power Semiconductor Devices
24. Reactive Power Planning
25. A Nonlinear Least-Squares Approach for Identification of Induction Motor Parameters
26. Speed Estimation of the Induction Motor
27. Modeling and Analysis of an Active Front-End Induction Motor Drive for Reactive Power Compensation
28. A Generalized Nonactive Power Theory for Parallel Compensation
29. Ancillary Services from Distributed Energy Resources
30. Assessment of the Economic Benefits from Reactive Power Compensation
31. Design of a New Permanent Magnet Machine by 3D Finite Element Analysis
32. Fault Diagnosis System for a Mutlilevel Inverter Using a Neural Network