Power and Energy
The teaching and research activities can be categorized into four main themes: Electrical Machines and Drives, Power Electronics, Power Systems, and Semiconductor devices. The application of our research area has a wide range including smart grid technologies, renewable integration, energy harvesting, control and management of electric vehicles connected to the power grids, low-power intelligent sensing nodes, and assistive technology. Meanwhile, Semiconductor Devices research is focused on developing high voltage (650 V, 1200 V) wide bandgap semiconductor devices to raise the system performance and energy efficiency, via the high quality switching devices operating under high-frequency energy conversion. This includes their design, modelling, fabrication processes, device prototyping, gate drives, protection circuits and overall integration. Such devices are suitable for renewable energy market, electric vehicles and smart power grid in the distribution level. The group is involved into interdisciplinary system level research with several industrial collaborators and various governmental agencies.
