The power electronics team

The G2ELab Power Electronics team pursues its objectives of design, modeling and characterization of electrical energy conversion systems. It aims to respond to societal and environmental challenges by increasing performance, improving design methodologies and reducing environmental impacts. .

For us at G2Elab, research in power electronics should answer the folloing challenges: 

• Make power electronics converter design more rational, toward automatisation and reduction of heterogeneities.
• Develop tools, design rules, methods and indicators to support power converter design with respect to performance, reliability, EMI and sustainabilities criteria.
• Maximize the benefits from today and tomorrow Wide BandGap (WBG) devices.
• Derive concepts, topologies and innovative devices and assembly techniques integrating systemic and multiphysique constraints. 
• Integrate environmental impacts and material criticity in the design and maufacturing flow of power converters.

The research activity is organized in 5 main topics related to power electronic systems:

• Design methodologies
• Converter topologies and associated control strategies
• Modeling and characterization of conducted and radiated EMI
• Hybrid integration
• Ecodesign and circular economy

To support our experimental development, we have internal technical resources and we have access to facilities that are shared at the university level (internal and shared experimental resources (PHELINE – CEDMS)). Below is a picture of several experimental benches that have been developed in the recent years to fullfil our prototyping, characterization and demonstration needs. 

Staff:

We are 12 faculty staff members at G2Elab Power Electronics team (counting for about 6 equivalent full time doing research, 7 are HDR) Betwwen 20 to 30 PhD candidates and PostDoc students are also part of the team EP team stall list. Since the 80th our team has contriuted to educate and train more than 250 young researchers in the field of power electronics. More details here.

Projects:

We are regularly involved in various research project at European, national and locaux levels. Also the team is strongly involved in industrial collaborations  More details here.
In average, we are involved in about 10 to 15 collaborative projects every year. Most of them are supported by PhD candidates but we also run projects in other configurations. 

Publications et outreach:

The team spends a lot of time to develop and distribute the results from the research activties througout scientific publications in conferences and journals. You can take a look to the most recent contributions, for each of our research topic, in the corresponding webpages. Most of our staff participes regularly to PhD or HDR defense and many are involved in journal edition and conference organization. At alst, we are involved in developing education contents directly related to our research activities.  More here (written in French only). 

Completing funding from the lab and our direct institutions (UGA/INP-GRE/CNRS), the team is strongly funded and supported by industry and research agencies. Thanks a lot for your support !