IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - March 2017 - 2

IEEE Power Electronics Magazine
Editor-in-chief
Ashok Bindra
12 Magnolia Ave.
Nesconset, NY 11767 USA
+1 631 471 5895
bindra1@verizon.net
Deputy Editors-in-chief
Ira J. Pitel (Industry)
Magna-Power Electronics, Inc.
39 Royal Road
Flemington, NJ 08822 USA
+1 908 237 2200 ext. 102
ipitel@magna-power.com
John Shen (Academic)
Grainger Chair Professor
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 35th Street, Suite 1600
Chicago, IL 60616 USA
+1 312 567-3352
zjohnshen@gmail.com
Tim Keim (Contributing)
+1 352 363 6688
tkeim@alum.mit.edu

Magazine advisory Board
Alan Mantooth
President
IEEE Power Electronics Society
Braham Ferreira
Immediate Past President
IEEE Power Electronics Society
Don F.D. Tan
Senior Past President
IEEE Power Electronics Society
John M. Miller
JNJ Miller plc
Philip T. Krein
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Robert N. Guenther
NWL
Ira J. Pitel
Magna-Power Electronics
Prasad Enjeti
Texas A&M University
John Shen
Illinois Institute of Technology
Bob White
Embedded Power Labs
William A. Peterson
E&M Power

IEEE Power Electronics
society officers
Alan Mantooth
President
mantooth@uark.edu
Braham Ferreira
Immediate Past President
Nominations Committee Chair
j.a.ferreira@tudelft.nl
Don F.D. Tan
Senior Past President, PELS
Long-Range Planning
Committee Chair
dong.tan@ngc.com
Mario Pacas
Executive VP Conferences
pacas@uni-siegen.de
Yan-Fei Liu
VP Technical Operations
yanfei.liu@queensu.ca
Luichen Chang
VP Conferences
lchang@unb.ca
Frede Blaabjerg
VP Products
fbl@iet.aau.dk
Peter Wilson
Executive VP Standards
prw30@bath.ac.uk
Jian Sun
Treasurer
jsun@ecse.rpi.edu
Jinjun Liu
Executive VP Membership
liu_jinjun@ieee.org
Hirofumi Akagi
Division II Director
akagi@ee.titech.ac.jp

2018 Members-at-large
Liuchen Chang
lchang@unb.ca
William Gerard Hurley
gerard.hurley@nuigalway.ie
Katherine Kim
katakim@gmail.com
Ernie Parker
ernie.parker@crane-eg.com
Grant Pitel
grantpitel@gmail.com
Seung-Ki Sul
sulsk@plaza.snu.ac.kr

2017 Members-at-large
Robert Balog
Robert.Balog@ieee.org
Johan Enslin
jenslin@clemson.edu
Helen Li
hli@caps.fsu.edu
William Peterson
peterson@EandMPower.com
Pradeep Shenoy
pshenoy@ti.com
Shinzo Tamai
tamai.shinzo@tmeic.co.jp

Rolando Burgos
Power and Control Core
Technologies
rburgos@ieee.org

advertising sales
Walter Chalupa
United States, Africa, Asia,
Canada, Central and South
America, and Europe
Telephone: +1 973 835 7015
wchalupa@aol.com
IEEE Power Electronics
society staff
Mike Kelly
Executive Director
m.p.kelly@ieee.org
Donna Florek
Technical Community
Program Specialist
d.florek@ieee.org
Becky Boresen
Technical Community
Program Specialist
b.boresen@ieee.org
Alicia Tomaszewski
Project Manager Transportation
Electrification Community
a.tomaszewski@ieee.org
Kellie Gilbert
Editorial Assistant/News Editor
kellie.gilbert@ieee.org

2019 Members-at-large
Sibylle Dieckerhoff
diecker@win.tu-berlin.de
Dan Kinzer
dan.kinzer@navitassemi.com
Marco Liserre
liserre@gmail.com
Annette Mütze
muetze@tugraz.at
João O.P. Pinto
joaonofre@gmail.com
technical committee chairs
John Hawkins
Communications Energy Systems
jmhawkins@ieee.org
Yaow-Ming Chen
High Performance and Emerging
Technologies
ymchen@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
Uday Deshpande
Motor Drives and Actuators
udayd@ieee.org

Robert Pilawa
Power Conversion Systems
and Components
pilawa@illinois.edu
Sudip Mazumder
Sustainable Energy Systems
mazumder@uic.edu
Alireza Khaligh
Vehicle and Transportation Systems
khaligh@ece.umd.edu

IEEE Periodicals
Magazines Department
445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ
08854 USA
Jessica Barragué
Managing Editor
Geraldine Krolin-Taylor
Senior Managing Editor
Janet Dudar
Senior Art Director
Gail A. Schnitzer, Mark Morrissey
Associate Art Directors
Theresa L. Smith
Production Coordinator
Mark David
Sr. Manager Advertising and
Business Development
Felicia Spagnoli
Advertising Production Manager
Peter M. Tuohy
Production Director
Dawn M. Melley
Editorial Director
Fran Zappulla
Staff Director,
Publishing Operations

IEEE prohibits discrimination, harassment, and bullying.
For more information, visit http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p9-26.html.
IEEE Power Electronics Magazine (ISSN 2329-9207) (IPEMDG) is published quarterly by the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc. Headquarters: 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997 USA, Telephone: +1 212
419 7900. Responsibility for the content rests upon the authors and not upon the IEEE, the Society or its members. IEEE
Service Center (for orders, subscriptions, address changes): 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA. Telephone:
+1 732 981 0060. Individual copies: IEEE members US$20.00 (first copy only), nonmembers US$97.00 per copy. Subscription rates: Annual subscription rates included in IEEE Power Electronics Society member dues. Subscription rates available
on request. Copyright and reprint permission: Abstracting is permitted with credit to the source. Libraries are permitted to
photocopy beyond the limits of U.S. Copyright law for the private use of patrons 1) those post-1977 articles that carry a code
at the bottom of the first page, provided the per-copy fee indicated in the code is paid through the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923 USA; 2) pre-1978 articles without a fee. For other copying, reprint, or republication permission, write Copyrights and Permissions Department, IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ
08854. Copyright © 2017 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. All rights reserved. Periodicals postage
pending at New York and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA. Canadian GST #125634188
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

Promoting Sustainable Forestry

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPEL.2017.2660138

IEEE PowEr ElEctronIcs MagazInE

SFI-01681

z March 2017

Mission stateMent: To educate,
inform, and entertain our community of
IEEE Power Electronics Society members
on technology, events, industry news, and
general topics relating to consumer
electronics and to further serve and
support our Members in professional
career development through tutorials and
raising awareness of engineering tools
and technologies.

http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p9-26.html

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - March 2017