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~ Albert Einstein
~ Albert Einstein
Journal Publications
S. Sinha, A. Kumar, B. Regensburger and K.K. Afridi “Design of Efficient Matching Networks for Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 104-127, February 2022.
B. Regensburger, S. Sinha, A. Kumar, S. Maji and K.K. Afridi, “High-Performance Multi-MHz Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for EV Charging using Interleaved-Foil Coupled Inductors”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 35-51, February 2022.
S. Sinha, A. Kumar, B. Regensburger and K.K. Afridi, “Active Variable Reactance Rectifier – A new Approach to Compensating for Coupling Variations in Wireless Power Transfer Systems”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 2022-2040, September 2020.
S. Sinha, A. Kumar, B. Regensburger and K.K. Afridi, “A New Design Approach to Mitigating the Effect of Parasitics in Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Electric Vehicle Charging”, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1040-1059, December 2019.
A. Kumar, S. Sinha, A. Sepahvand and K.K. Afridi, “Improved Design Optimization for High-Efficiency Matching Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 37-50, January 2018.
Conference Publications
A. Dixit and S. Sinha, "An Optimized Two-Module Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for EV Charging," Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 2024.
R. Nazir and S. Sinha, “Analytical Efficiency Maximization with Constant-kQ Optimal Coupler Design for Inductive Wireless Power Transfer Systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 2024.
A.M. Bhat and S. Sinha, "A Variable Compensation Rectifier with Enhanced Compensation Capability for Coupling Variations in Wireless Power Transfer Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA, USA, February 2024.
R. Nazir, A. Dixit and S. Sinha, "Analytically Optimized Asymmetric Coupler Design for Wireless Drone Charging with Receiver-side Weight Constraint," Proceedings of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November-December 2023.
S. Sinha, A. Kumar and K. K. Afridi, "A Variable Compensation Inverter Rectifier (VCIR) based Approach to Compensate for Coupling Variations in Wireless Power Transfer Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Vancouver, Canada, October 2021.
S. Sinha, S. Maji and K. K. Afridi, "Comparison of Large Air-Gap Inductive and Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Phoenix, AZ, June 2021.
S. Sinha, A. Kumar and K. K. Afridi, "Optimized Design of High-Efficiency Immittance Matching Networks for Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies: Wireless Power (WoW), San Diego, CA, June 2021.
S. Maji, S. Sinha, B. Regensburger, F. Monticone and K.K. Afridi, “Reduced-Fringing-Field Multi-MHz Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System Utilizing a Metasurface-based Coupler”, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Alborg, Denmark, November 2020.
S. Maji, S. Sinha and K.K. Afridi, “Theoretical Limits of Power Transfer in Capacitive Wireless Charging Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Alborg, Denmark, November 2020.
Y. Hou, S. Sinha, D. Ni, Q. Ji, T Schenkel, A. Persaud, P. Seidl, A. Lal and K.K. Afridi, “A 50-MHz Multi-kV Power Amplifier for Ion-Beam Accelerator Utilizing an Optimized Toroidal Inductor”, Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, October 2020.
B. Regensburger, S. Sinha, A. Kumar and K. K. Afridi, "A 3.75-kW High-Power-Transfer-Density Capacitive Wireless Charging System for EVs Utilizing Toroidal-Interleaved-Foil Coupled Inductors," Proceedings of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), Chicago, IL, June 2020.
S. Sinha, B. Regensburger, A. Kumar and K.K. Afridi, "A Multi-MHz Large Air-gap Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System Utilizing an Active Variable Reactance Rectifier Suitable for Dynamic Electric Vehicle Charging," Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, September 2019.
S. Sinha and K.K. Afridi, "Closed-loop Control of a Dynamic Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Toronto, Canada, June 2019.
B. Regensburger, A. Kumar, S. Sinha, J. Xu and K. K. Afridi, "High-Efficiency High-Power-Transfer-Density Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicle Charging Utilizing Semi-Toroidal Interleaved-Foil Coupled Inductors," Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, March 2019.
B. Regensburger, J. Estrada, A. Kumar, S. Sinha, Z. Popović and K. K. Afridi, "High-Performance Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicle Charging with Enhanced Coupling Plate Design," Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Portland, OR, September 2018.
B. Regensburger, A. Kumar, S. Sinha and K. Afridi, "High-Performance 13.56-MHz Large Air-Gap Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicle Charging," Proceedings of the Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Padua, Italy, June 2018.
B. Regensburger, A. Kumar, S. Sinha and K. K. Afridi, "Impact of Foreign Objects on the Performance of Capacitive Wireless Charging Systems for Electric Vehicles," Proceedings of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Long Beach, CA, June 2018.
S. Sinha, A. Kumar and K.K. Afridi, “Improved Design Optimization of Efficient Matching Networks for Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), San Antonio, TX, March 2018.
A. Kumar, S. Sinha and K.K. Afridi, “A High-Frequency Inverter Architecture for Providing Variable Compensation in Wireless Power Transfer Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), San Antonio, TX, March, 2018.
B. Regensburger, S. Sinha, A. Kumar and K.K. Afridi, “Kilowatt-Scale Large Air-Gap Multi-Modular Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicle Charging”, Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), San Antonio, TX, March, 2018.
S. Sinha, A. Kumar, B. Regensburger, and K.K. Afridi, “A Very-High-Power-Transfer-Density GaN-Based Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications (WiPDA), Albuquerque, NM, October/November 2017.
S. Sinha, B. Regensburger, K. Doubleday, A. Kumar, S. Pervaiz and K.K. Afridi, “High-Power-Transfer-Density Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicle Charging,” Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Cincinnati, OH, October 2017.
J. Estrada, S. Sinha, B. Regensburger, K.K. Afridi and Z. Popovic, “Capacitive Wireless Powering for Electric Vehicles with Near-Field Phased Arrays,” Proceedings of the European Microwave Conference, Nuremburg, Germany, October 2017.
S. Sinha, A. Kumar and K.K. Afridi, “Active Variable Reactance Rectifier – A New Approach to Compensating for Coupling Variations in Wireless Power Transfer Systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Stanford, CA, July 2017.
K. Doubleday, A. Kumar, B. Regensburger, S. Pervaiz, S. Sinha, Z. Popovic and K.K. Afridi, “Multi-Objective Optimization of Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Electric Vehicle Charging,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Stanford, CA, July 2017.
B. Regensburger, A. Kumar, S. Sinha, K. Doubleday, S. Pervaiz, Z. Popovic and K.K. Afridi, “High-Efficiency Large Air-Gap Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicle Charging,” Proceedings of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Exposition (ITEC), Chicago, IL, June 2017.
K. Doubleday, A.Kumar, S. Sinha, B. Regensburger, S. Pervaiz and K.K. Afridi, “Design Tradeoffs in a Multi-Modular Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer System,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies: Wireless (WoW), Knoxville, TN, October, 2016.
A. Kumar, S. Sinha, A. Sepahvand and K.K. Afridi, “Improved Design Optimization Approach for High Efficiency Matching Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Milwaukee, WI, September, 2016.
S. Sinha, A. Kumar, S. Pervaiz, B. Regensburger and K.K. Afridi, “Design of Efficient Matching Networks for Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Trondheim, Norway, June 2016.
C. McHugh, S. Sinha, J. Meyer, S. Pervaiz, J. Lu, F. Zhang, H. Chen, H. Kim, U. Anwar, A. Kumar, A. Sepahvand, S. Jensen, B. Choi, D. Seltzer, R.W. Erickson, D. Maksimovic and K.K. Afridi, “A High Power Density Single-Phase Inverter Using Stacked Switched Capacitor Energy Buffer,” Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA, March, 2016.