Piezoelectric-based power conversion: Recent progress, opportunities, and challenges

JD Boles, JJ Piel, N Elaine, JE Bonavia… - 2022 IEEE Custom …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pursuits of miniaturization, greater performance, and lower cost for power electronics
necessitate advancement of power passive component technologies. While wide-bandgap …

Optimized resonators for piezoelectric power conversion

WD Braun, EA Stolt, L Gu… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of inductors at high frequencies and small sizes is one of the largest
limiting factors in the continued miniaturization of dc-dc converters. Piezoelectric resonators …

Enumeration and analysis of DC–DC converter implementations based on piezoelectric resonators

JD Boles, JJ Piel, DJ Perreault - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Demand for power electronics with smaller volume, lighter weight, and lower cost will
eventually require new converter energy storage technologies with fundamentally higher …

Fixed-frequency control of piezoelectric resonator dc-dc converters for spurious mode avoidance

E Stolt, WD Braun, L Gu… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric resonators have shown promise as efficient, power-dense energy storage
element alternatives to continue the miniaturization of DC-DC converters. However, practical …

Near spurious-free thickness shear mode lithium niobate resonator for piezoelectric power conversion

K Nguyen, V Chulukhadze, E Stolt… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric power converters, where acoustic resonators replace the inductors as energy
storage elements, promise much higher power density and higher efficiency compared to …

A series/parallel magnetic-less step-down converter based on piezoelectric resonators

WCB Liu, PP Mercier - 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes a series/parallel piezoelectric resonator (SPPR) DC-DC converter that
strives to improve performance at larger step-down ratios than what baseline piezo …

Comparison between piezoelectric filter and passive LC filter in a class L− Piezo inverter

V Massavie, G Despesse, S Carcouet, X Maynard - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a comparison between piezoelectric filtering and passive LC filtering
integrated into an HF class L− Piezo inverter. This L− Piezo inverter is a variant of class φ2 …

An Integrated Dual-Side Series/Parallel Piezoelectric Resonator-Based DC–DC Converter

WCB Liu, G Pillonnet, PP Mercier - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of piezoelectric resonators (PRs) as energy storage elements in dc–dc converters
has captured considerable interest, in part due to the ultra-thin planner form factor, excellent …

High-efficiency operating modes for isolated piezoelectric-transformer-based dc-dc converters

JD Boles, E Ng, JH Lang… - 2020 IEEE 21st …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The drive to miniaturize power electronics motivates investigation into alternative converter
energy storage technologies such as piezoelectrics, which offer fundamentally higher power …

Near-Spurious-Free Lithium Niobate Resonator for Piezoelectric Power Conversion with of 3500 and k2t of 45%

K Nguyen, E Stolt, W Braun… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric power converters, where acoustic resonators replace the inductors as energy
storage elements, promise much higher power density and higher efficiency compared to …