Piezoelectric transformers (PTs) are solid-state devices that transform electrical energy into
electrical energy by means of a mechanical vibration. These devices are manufactured …

Pursuits of miniaturization, greater performance, and lower cost for power electronics
necessitate advancement of power passive component technologies. While wide-bandgap …

Piezoelectric components offer several potential advantages to power conversion including
high power density and efficiency capabilities compared to magnetics at small scales …

Demand for power electronics with smaller volume, lighter weight, and lower cost will
eventually require new converter energy storage technologies with fundamentally higher …

We present a new non-isolated low-power inductorless piezoelectric resonant converter.
The piezoelectric material is used as an energy storage element like an inductance in a …

The emergence of new piezoelectric materials makes it possible to offer high performances
in terms of power density and integration. These new materials can be used in dc–dc power …

The drive to miniaturize power electronics motivates investigation into alternative passive
component technologies such as piezoelectrics, which offer fundamentally higher power …

This paper presents a generic representation of the six switching sequences of the dc-dc
converters based on piezoelectric resonators. In addition, the estimation of current density …

A control system to achieve zero-voltage switching (ZVS) for an inductorless half-bridge
piezoelectric transformer-based resonant power supply is presented. Both the phase and …

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 …