Blogs

Engineering notes, research updates, and ideas from the team building AI-assisted power electronics tools.

13 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Underwater Wireless Power Transfer: Charging Through a Conducting Medium

Why subsea inductive links trade the wet-mate connector for a different set of problems — seawater eddy loss, the frequency ceiling it imposes, pre...

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13 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles: Kilowatts Across a 150 mm Gap

What changes when the gap grows from millimetres to a car's ground clearance — the 85 kHz operating point, double-sided LCC compensation, misalignm...

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13 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Wireless Charging for Phones: Coupling, Compensation and the kQ Limit

How an inductive charging pad actually works — coupling coefficient, series compensation, the efficiency ceiling set by kQ, the Qi handshake, and w...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Transient Thermal Impedance: From Heating Curves to Validated RC Models

Derive thermal step response, cooling measurements and arbitrary-power temperature prediction, then fit Foster or Cauer models with explicit physic...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Temperature Cycling Reliability: Package Strain, Dwell and Failure Analysis

Distinguish external thermal cycling from self-heating, define specimen temperature histories and connect package degradation to a measured stress ...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Thermal Resistance Measurements: Define the Heat Path Before Dividing Temperature by Power

Measure steady thermal performance with controlled power and boundaries, distinguish junction-to-case from junction-to-ambient metrics and quantify...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Power Semiconductor Robustness: SOA, Avalanche and Short-Circuit Testing

Understand abnormal-event test physics, energy accounting and protection limits without confusing switching characterisation with destructive robus...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Power Semiconductor Characterisation: Electrical, Thermal and Reliability Testing

A complete learning map for power-device measurements, from static characteristics and double-pulse testing to thermal impedance, accelerated agein...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Power Cycling Reliability: Controlled Self-Heating and Degradation Evidence

Design active thermal-cycling experiments, track real junction stress and distinguish package degradation from temperature and control drift.

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

From Mission Profile to Lifetime: Damage Models, Weibull Statistics and Uncertainty

Connect operating histories, loss and thermal models to mechanism-specific life estimates, with worked calculations and correct treatment of censor...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Measuring Junction Temperature: Calibration, TSEPs and Measurement Delay

Determine what a junction-temperature measurement represents, calibrate a temperature-sensitive electrical parameter and separate thermal behaviour...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Bias and Humidity Reliability Tests: HTRB, HTGB and Moisture Stress

Choose electrical and environmental stresses from the failure mechanism, control the specimen conditions and distinguish persistent damage from rec...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Static Electrical Characterisation: From Terminal Measurements to a Device Model

Measure on-state resistance, output and transfer curves, threshold voltage, leakage and blocking behaviour with controlled temperature and a defens...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Gate Charge, Nonlinear Capacitance and Dynamic On-Resistance

Distinguish small-signal capacitance from switching charge, derive output charge and energy, and measure dynamic on-resistance with a controlled bi...

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10 September 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Double-Pulse Testing: Switching Physics, Measurement and Loss Extraction

Derive the double-pulse sequence, design the commutation fixture and extract switching energy and recovery behaviour without confusing device physi...

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16 July 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

One link to bring power electronics into your AI agent

Why we published aipe.md — and how to use it with Claude Code, Codex, or any AI coding agent to design converters with real component data.

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Three-Stage Solid-State Transformers: From Principles to a Complete System

The architecture, energy flow and shared teaching specification for an SST built from a cascaded front end, isolated DAB modules and an AC output s...

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Three-Phase dq Modelling: Coordinates, Power and Synchronisation

Derive amplitude-invariant Clarke and Park transforms, their coupling terms and power conventions, then obtain a basic synchronous-reference-frame ...

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

The SST High-Frequency Transformer: From Volt-Seconds to a Testable Design

Derive transformer turns, distinguish transfer and magnetising inductance, and connect DAB waveforms to winding, core, thermal and insulation requi...

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

The DC–AC Output Stage of an SST: From Voltage Synthesis to Closed-Loop Control

Build the SST AC output from a two-level bridge, derive the LC-filter and dq models, and design cascaded current and voltage control before studyin...

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

The AC–DC Front End of an SST: Circuit, Modelling and Control

From one active bridge to a cascaded H-bridge front end: input-current equations, DC-link energy, modulation and capacitor-voltage balancing.

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Building a Modular SST: Energy, Sharing and System Integration

Connect the three SST stages through explicit energy control, module sharing, startup states and a staged validation plan.

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

DAB Power Transfer and Small-Signal Modelling: A Step-by-Step Derivation

Derive dual-active-bridge current waveforms, phase-shift power, RMS current and the low-frequency control plant, with explicit reference directions...

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

The DAB Isolation Stage: From Switching Waveforms to Closed-Loop Control

A consistent derivation-led introduction to a dual-active-bridge converter, including phase-shift control, device stress, soft switching and labora...

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19 January 2026 · Dr. Fulong Li

Solid-State Transformers: Principles, Applications and Design Choices

Why solid-state transformers are studied for distribution, data centres, charging and microgrids, and how the application determines the conversion...

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16 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

LLC Resonant Converter: From Zero to Everything

Why resonance beats hard switching — the LLC tank, FHA gain curves, ZVS, the capacitive region to avoid, and how to design and simulate one.

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15 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

Push–Pull, Half-Bridge and Full-Bridge Converters

Double-ended topologies that drive the core both ways — how they differ in switch stress and transformer use, plus flux walking and the phase-shift...

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14 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

Forward Converter: From Zero to Everything

An isolated buck — true transformer action, core reset, the duty limit, and the two-switch and active-clamp variants that fix its weaknesses.

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13 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

Flyback Converter: From Zero to Everything

The simplest isolated converter — coupled-inductor energy storage, turns ratio, leakage and clamps, CCM and DCM, and closed-loop design.

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12 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

Ćuk, SEPIC and Zeta: The Fourth-Order Family

Three converters that step up or down: the inverting Ćuk and non-inverting SEPIC and Zeta, with capacitive energy transfer and different port-curre...

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11 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

Buck–Boost Converter: From Zero to Everything

Step up or step down from one stage — the inverting buck-boost and its non-inverting cousin, from switching cycle to modelling, control and simulat...

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10 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

Buck Converter: From Zero to Everything

A practical path from the first switching cycle to modelling, feedback control, simulation, KiCad and a working buck-converter prototype.

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9 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

Small-Signal Modelling from First Principles: A Boost Converter Walkthrough

Why small-signal models work, and how to derive a boost converter's averaged equations, operating point, transfer functions and right-half-plane zero.

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9 December 2025 · Dr. Fulong Li

Boost Converter: From Zero to Everything

A practical path from the first switching cycle to modelling, feedback control, simulation, KiCad and a working boost-converter prototype.

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