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IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems
An Open Access Publication of the IEEE Circuits and Systems
Society
Call for Papers
Special Section on Advanced Power Electronics Techniques
for Smart Grid Applications
Submission date: July 21st, 2022 Publication date: December 2022
Motivation
The advent of modern power electronics has brought tremendous impact on emerging power systems. In an emerging smart grid, as the
number of inverter‐ and converter‐based devices increases to more than hundreds of thousands, it is rather intuitive that the state‐of‐the‐art
technical solutions and industry practices will no longer be sustainable. The combination of power electronics and advanced control
technologies serve as the key enabler of a wide range of smart grid applications. While tremendous progress has been made in advancing the
standalone power electronics technologies, much less attention has been paid to bridging the gap between traditionally disjoint research areas
- power electronics, power systems, and intelligent control - ultimately facilitating the vision of 100% carbon‐neutral energy systems come to
fruition. There is a growing interest in the concepts of power electronics‐enabled power systems around the world. The proposed Special
Section (SS) invites a broad spectrum of contributors (e.g., academics, researchers, engineers, consultants, market regulators and system
operators, key policymakers) to define and develop the interdisciplinary technical approaches collectively. The SS solicits original research
papers that target at, but are not restricted to, the following topics. It is worth noting that this SS places an emphasis on addressing the mutual
research interests of academics and industry. Hence, interdisciplinary research and real‐world‐problem‐driven research topics are of particular
interest of this SS. Submissions from industry are highly encouraged.
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Grid integration of grid‐forming converters/inverters for smart grid applications.
 Modeling, simulation, analysis, and experiment of power electronics components for smart grid applications.
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Novel power electronics applications to support high penetration of distributed renewable resources.
Reliability, resilience, and stability study of power electronic converters for smart grid applications.
Testbed, proof‐of‐concept demonstrations, pilot projects, and real‐world implementation.
 New business models and economic analysis of power‐electronics‐enabled distribution networks.
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Innovative education and training activities for promoting emerging power electronics technologies and developing a pipeline of future
power electronics engineers.
The Publication Fees/Article Processing Charges (APCs) for the accepted papers will be completely subsidized by
the CAS Society. Hence these publications will be completely free of charge to the authors.
Publication Schedule
Manuscript submission deadline
First‐round revision notification due
Revised manuscripts due
Second‐round revision notification due
Final manuscript due
Online publication
Guest Editors
Dr. Mengqi Wang, University of Michigan‐Dearborn, MI, USA, mengqiw@umich.edu
Dr. Xiu Yao, University at Buffalo, NY, USA, xiuyao@buffalo.edu
Instructions for authors: Manuscripts must be submitted online using the IEEE OJCAS Manuscript Template via Manuscript Central at:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oj‐cas During submission, the answer to question " Type " in Step 1 of the submission process, is " power
electronics " .
IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems is a new gold fully open access journal that publishes high‐quality, peer‐reviewed papers covering the
theory, analysis, design, tools, and implementation of circuits and systems. This includes their theoretical foundations, applications, and
architectures, as well as circuits and systems implementation of algorithms for signal and information processing.
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