Technical Talk: GaN Based Power Converters
Technical Talk on "GaN Based Power Converters: its challenges and series connection of GaN devices" by Dr. Apurv Kumar Yadav.
Short Abstract: The talk discusses the advantages and challenges of using GaN devices in the power
converters. First part of the talk briefly discusses the introduction of the GaN devices, its construction,
commercial availability and challenges related to its usage. Second part of the talk discusses the method
to enable series connections of GaN devices using the combination of current mirror and active gate
driver. Further, we will also discuss the hardware results obtained for the same using the prototype
developed. Last part of the talk discusses the overview of the research efforts and hardware development
done by my research group which include the GaN based multilevel fed motor drives, a 5kW multiphase
inductive power transfer system and a misalignment tolerant inductive power transfer system.
Biography: Dr. Apurv Kumar Yadav is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department
of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, INDIA. He received the B.Tech
degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, INDIA,
in 2011, and the M.Tech degree with Distinction and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic
Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA, in 2015 and 2018 respectively.
Before joining IIT Roorkee in 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA for more than 2
years. His broad area of research interest includes inductive power transfer, WBG enabled power
converters, motor drives with wide-bandgap devices, and multilevel converters.
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- National Taiwan University
- Electrical Engineering Department
- Taipei, T'ai-pei
- Taiwan
- Building: EE2
- Room Number: 144
- Starts 06 January 2026 03:00 AM UTC
- Ends 09 January 2026 08:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Apurv Kumar Yadav
GaN Based Power Converters: its challenges and series connection of GaN devices
The talk discusses the advantages and challenges of using GaN devices in the power
converters. First part of the talk briefly discusses the introduction of the GaN devices, its construction,
commercial availability and challenges related to its usage. Second part of the talk discusses the method
to enable series connections of GaN devices using the combination of current mirror and active gate
driver. Further, we will also discuss the hardware results obtained for the same using the prototype
developed. Last part of the talk discusses the overview of the research efforts and hardware development
done by my research group which include the GaN based multilevel fed motor drives, a 5kW multiphase
inductive power transfer system and a misalignment tolerant inductive power transfer system.
Biography:
Dr. Apurv Kumar Yadav is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department
of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, INDIA. He received the B.Tech
degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, INDIA,
in 2011, and the M.Tech degree with Distinction and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic
Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA, in 2015 and 2018 respectively.
Before joining IIT Roorkee in 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA for more than 2
years. His broad area of research interest includes inductive power transfer, WBG enabled power
converters, motor drives with wide-bandgap devices, and multilevel converters.
Agenda
3:30 pm - Introduction (Prof. Katherine Kim)
3:35 pm - Technical Talk (Dr. Apurv Kumar Yadav)
4:20 pm - Q&A