IEEE Power Electronics Magazine

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Vol. 9, No. 1 pelsmagazine.ieee.org
March 2022
For your engineering success
Features
14 Driven by Density, Efficiency at Low Cost,
Power Integration Reaches New Heights
PSiPs and PwrSoCs are growing faster than
the traditional power supplies
52
Ashok Bindra
20 Transactive Energy: Power Electronics Challenges
João F. Martins, Enrique Romero-Cadaval, Dmitri Vinnikov,
and Mariusz Malinowski
Departments
& Columns 33 A Novel High-Speed Sensorless Faulty Panel
Detection Technique for an SPV String/Array
4 From the Editor An accurate and cost-effective approach for SPV industry
Drive to Squeeze More Power From Tiny Packages, Sreedhar Madichetty, Yellepeddi Venkata Sai Manoj,
On-Chip Substrates Continues Unabated Shaik Abdul Kareem, and Sukumar Mishra
Ashok Bindra
8 President’s Message 40 Hardware Engineer’s Guide to a
A Vital 35-Year-Young Society
Brushless-DC Motor Controller
Liuchen Chang
Design and challenges
46 Women in Engineering Prabhat Ranjan Tripathi
The Roaring 20s: A Decade Helping Reshape
the Face of IEEE PELS
Lauren E. Kegley
48 Expert View
Chemistry Options for Lithium-Ion UPS and BBU
Jeffrey VanZwol
52 Society News
66 Event Calendar
70 Passive Components On the cover
Recent Advances in Thick-Film Resistors Monitoring the evolution of power supply in package
and  Target Applications (PSiP) and power supply on-chip (PwrSoC) devices.
Tetsuya Sumida
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76 White Hot
G etting the Most From Your IEEE Membership
Robert V. White
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Austin, TX, USA Alan Mantooth 2024 Members-at-Large Sanjib Kumar Panda
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From the Editor
by Ashok Bindra
Drive to Squeeze More Power From
Tiny Packages, On-Chip Substrates
Continues Unabated
The fervor for miniaturization nologies, and strategies adopted lepeddi Venkata Sai Manoj, Shaik
continues in the power sup- going forward. In addition, the ar- Abdul Kareem and Sukumar Mishra,
ply world. Power supply ticle explores the role of wideband the authors propose a new method to
designers have kept pace with the gap devices, such as gallium ni- identify faults occurring on a panel/
demands of the market for more tride and silicon carbide, including module in a solar farm. The research-
power from smaller packages with heterogeneous integration, in fur- ers claim to have demonstrated the
better efficiency, reliability, and ther pushing the performance bar of validation of the new model by ex-
speed. While keeping the cost low. these products and ecuting it in 1000 W,
Consequently, power integration, technologies. 2000 W and 3000 W
both in package and on-chip, has Combining infor- The result is that power panel test setups.
continued to evolve for more than mation and energy, supply in package and According to the
a decade. The result is that power transactive energy feature, when in-
power supply on-chip
supply in package (PSiP) and power (TE) continues to corporated it can
have become
supply on-chip (PwrSoC) have be - evolve and enable result in significant
mainstream products,
come mainstream products, driven highly coordinated improvements in
by traditional and emerging app- energetic transac- driven by traditional power generation
lications. Today, we are talking tions. The second and emerging of the SPV systems.
about hundreds of watts from a feature “Transac- applications. In the fourth
compact semiconductor package, tive Energy: Power feature “Hardware
as well monolithic semiconduc- Electronics Chal- Engineer’s Guide to
tor substrates. lenges,” by João F. Martins, Enrique a Brushless-DC Motor Controller:
In the cover feature of this issue of Romero-Cadaval, Dmitri Vinnikov Design and Challenges, Prabhat Ran-
IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, and Mariusz Malinowski, examines jan Tripathi discusses the guidelines
written by the editor-in-chief, the TE related issues and the challenges for designing a brushless dc motor
author investigates the trend and posed by power electronics (PE). controller. This feature highlights the
the emerging applications driving This feature provides insight into main design challenges and con-
these products and technologies. two key PE devices that provide straints when designing the printed
The cover feature “Driven by Den- essential bridging functions in the circuit board for the hardware.
sity, Efficiency at Low Cost, Power TE paradigm, the residential energy
Integration Reaches New Heights,” router and the smart transformer, in Columns, Society News
identifies some key players in this relation to the TE nodes established and More
field and examines some of their across the entire electrical power In the column “President’s Message,”
latest PSiPs and PwrSoCs demon- system value chain. Liuchen Chang presents the evolution
strating the state-of-the-art tech- In the third feature “A Novel High- of IEEE Power Electronics Society
Speed Sensorless Faulty Panel De- (PELS) and its growth for last 35
tection Technique for an SPV String/ years. His column highlights the
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Date of current version: 17 February 2022 Array” by Sreedhar Madichetty, Yel- vibrancy of PELS, and the vital role
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it plays in the power electronics com- presents pro and cons of two popular
munity in bringing a variety of servic- Lithium-ion battery chemistries for The Women in
es to industry and academic mem- uninterruptible power supplies and Engineering (WiE)
bers. Likewise, in the “Passive Com- battery backup units. Getting the
column “The Roaring
ponents” column, Tetsuya Sumida most from your IEEE membership is
20s: A Decade Helping
unveils recent advances in thick-film the focus of “White Hot” column. In
Reshape the Face of
resistors and the target applications this column, Bob White gives some
they address. While the “Expert View” good tips on becoming a member of IEEE PELS” by Lauren E.
column, written by Jeffrey VanZwol, IEEE and PELS. Kegley talks about
Diversity and
Inclusiveness (D&I) as
Optimize the electrifi cation properties part of the core values
of PELS, and its
of your EV power electronics
commitment to
& electric propulsion systems
advancing D&I in the
technical professional
community.
Next, the “Women in Engineering”
(WiE) column “The Roaring 20s: A De-
cade Helping Reshape the Face of IEEE
PELS” by Lauren E. Kegley talks about
Diversity and Inclusiveness (D&I) as
part of the core values of PELS, and its
commitment to advancing D&I in the
technical professional community.
Society News brings activities from
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PELS Chapters around the world, in-
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cluding PELS Townhall meeting and
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the newly elevated PELS members as
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Booster vaccinations are on the rise,
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and so also Omicron cases. To curtail
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sential to follow general safety guide-
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President’s Message
by Liuchen Chang
A Vital 35-Year-Young Society
At the Townhall meeting of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, dent) and Lauren Kegley (Women-
IEEE Power Electronics IEEE Industrials Electronics Soci- in-Engineering Committee Chair).
Society (PELS) held virtu- ety, Georgia Research Alliance et al. Please see Lauren’s article [See details
ally on 15 D ecember 2021, Prof. With the elections in the “Women in
John Kassakian, the first president of completed in late Engineering” (WiE)
our society, reflected on the historical 2021, our new AdCom column “The Roar-
PELS is developing
era when the pioneers drove the inno- members, Vice- ing 20s: A Decade
strategies on Diversity,
vation in power electronics, initiated Presidents and Helping Reshape the
Equity and Inclusion
INTELEC, PESC (the predecessor of President-Elect Face of IEEE PELS”
ECCE), and APEC conferences, cre- took their office in (DEI) led by Frede by Lauren E. Kegley,
ated IEEE Transactions on Power 2022 (please see de- Blaabjerg (Past p.46] in this issue for
Electronics (TPEL), and established tails at www.ieee President) and Lauren more details.
the IEEE PELS on 20 June 1987. Now -pels.org). I would like We are in process
Kegley (Women
our vibrant society is 35 years young, to express my whole- of launching our
in-Engineering
reaching another milestone in its hearted gratitude scholarship program
Committee Chair).
short history with a record level of for all who complet - during 2022 for grad-
membership as shown in Figure 1. ed their services in uate students engag-
The record of the Townhall Meeting 2021 and welcome ing in international
can be viewed at IEEEtv (https:// all who took new positions in 2022. research exchange, reported by Mario
ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/pels/pels PELS is developing strategies on Pacas, VP Global Relations. Indeed
-2021-town-hall). Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) PELS has significantly beefed up
Divyam Nagpal, Programme Officer led by Frede Blaabjerg (Past Presi- its education programs. Our Ph.D.
of International Renewable Energy
Agency presented another featured
speech on energy access at our
PELS Membership (1988–2021) and Strategic Plan Target (2021–2025)
Townhall meeting. His insightful
16,000
presentation covered a broad spec- Actual Membership
14,000
trum. The ambitious goal of provid- Growth Target (2021–2025)
ing electricity to billions of people p12,000
hi
who have no or little access to elec- s
er10,000
tricity supplies resonates well with mb
that of the IEEE Empower a Billion Me 8,000
Lives (EBL-II), a global competi-
6,000
tion led by our society in partner-
ship with many partners, includ- 4,000
8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4
ing IEEE Control Systems Society, 98 99 99 99 99 99 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 01 02 02 02
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Years
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2021.3139252
Date of current version: 17 February 2022 FIG 1 PELS membership growth.
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