IEEE PEDG 2023

Tutorial Title: Design and Application of High-Power High-Voltage High-Frequency Transformers (H3Ts)

The solid-state transformer (SST), as a revolutionary technique, has received increasing attention from both industry and academia for emerging scenarios such as smart grid, data centers, renewable generation, and traction systems. The high-power, high-voltage, high-frequency transformers (H3T) is crucial to guarantee galvanic isolation, voltage matching, and power transmission. In this proposal, we aim to introduce both fundamental and advancements of H3T, where we wish to introduce basic analysis tools and solutions for designing and active controlling H3T. The challenges, opportunities and trends for H3T will be involved in this 3-hour tutorial.

Presenters’ Information

    Wu Chen, Southeast University, China

    Wu Chen (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Jiangsu, China, in 1981. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2003, 2006, and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2010, he was a Senior Research Assistant with the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. In 2010 and 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Future Electric Energy Delivery and Management Systems Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. Since September 2011, he has been an Associate Research Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, where he has been a professor since 2016. His main research interests include soft-switching converters, power delivery, and power electronic system integration.

    Dr. Chen is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Journal of Power Electronics, and CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications.


    Zhan Shen, Southeast University, China

    Zhan Shen (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering and automation from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2013 and M.E. degree in electrical engineering from Southeast University in 2016, both in Nanjing, China, and Ph.D. degree in energy technology from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark in 2020. He conducts his research as a Postdoc researcher in Aalborg until 2021 and as an Associate Professor at Southeast University in Nanjing. He was a Visiting Student and pursued his master thesis at the RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, from Oct. 2014 to Feb. 2016, and a Visiting Scholar with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, from Oct. 2018 to Jan. 2019. He was with the ABB Corporate Research Center, Beijing, China, in 2016. His research interests include the electromagnetic-thermal-reliability modeling and design of magnetic components in power electronic converters, and EMI.

    Prof. Shen was the recipient of multiple Best Paper and Best Presenter Awards of the IEEE PELS sponsored conferences.


    Hongbo Zhao, Aalborg University, Denmark

    Hongbo Zhao (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Power Electronics from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2021. From Jan. 2021- Apr. 2021, he was a visiting student in the University of Texas at Austin. From Jan. 2023- Apr. 2023, he was a visiting scholar in the University of Galway. Currently, he is a Postdoc Researcher with Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.

    His research interests include high-frequency modeling and analysis of high-power magnetics and filters, as well as medium-voltage converters enabled by wide band-gap power devices. He is a recipient of 2022 Villum Experiment grant.



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