2025
H. Araki and A. Castellazzi, "From Boost-VSI to VSI-Boost: a novel approach for high power-density cost-competitive inverter systems with improved harmonic signature," 2025 Zhejiang Power Electronics Conference (ZPEC), Hangzhou, China, 2025, pp. 390-394, doi: 10.1109/ZPEC67225.2025.11213269.

V. Y. V. Placido, Y. Lee and A. Castellazzi, "Control-function implementation options for the non-inverting buck-boost Y-Inverter," 2025 Zhejiang Power Electronics Conference (ZPEC), Hangzhou, China, 2025, pp. 137-141, doi: 10.1109/ZPEC67225.2025.11212883.

Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., Codecasa, L., Castellazzi, A. and d'Alessandro, V., 2025. A study of UIS ruggedness of mismatched paralleled SiC MOSFETs. Microelectronics Reliability, 164, p.115571.

Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., Codecasa, L., Castellazzi, A. and d’Alessandro, V., 2025. A Cost-Driven Analysis of Thermal Performance in Power Modules. Energies, 18(7), p.1665.

Araki, H. and Castellazzi, A., 2025, June. SVM Implementation of the 4-Switch Non-Inverting Buck-Boost Y-Inverter. In 2025 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG) (pp. 186-190). IEEE.

Araki, H. and Castellazzi, A., 2025, June. Multi-Source DC-Link-Less Single-Phase Buck-Boost Inverter with Discontinuous Modulation. In 2025 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG) (pp. 258-263). IEEE.

Sahu, S., De, D. and Castellazzi, A., 2025, June. Link Current Optimization for Triple Port Active Bridge Converter with Series Voltage Injection. In 2025 International Conference on Power Electronics Converters for Transportation and Energy Applications (PECTEA) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

Saito, S., Araki, H., Yonghwa, L., Oguro, E., Matoba, H. and Castellazzi, A., 2025, March. Dual-Source Buck-Boost Single-Phase GaN Inverter Without Capacitive DC-Link. In 2025 1st International Conference on Consumer Technology (ICCT-Pacific) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Guerlach, E.W.S., Domae, S. and Castellazzi, A., 2025, March. High-Frequency Cross-Coupled Planar Inductor Design for Interleaved WBG Y-Inverter Layout. In 2025 1st International Conference on Consumer Technology (ICCT-Pacific) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

2024
Lee, Y., Castellazzi, A. and Domae, S., 2024. Digital Functional Blocks Implementation of PWM and Control for a High-Frequency Interleaved Y-Inverter Motor Drive. Electronics, 13(13), p.2610.

Lee, Y. and Castellazzi, A., 2024, November. Y-Inversion based DC-link-less multi-source power networks. In 2024 13th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) (pp. 1700-1705). IEEE.

Riegler, B., Lee, Y., Castellazzi, A. and Hartmann, M., 2024, October. Efficiency Considerations of a 3kW, all SiC Current-Source Converter. In 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (pp. 2816-2823). IEEE.

Kamahara, T., Ushiba, H., Minami, M. and Castellazzi, A., 2024, November. High Boost-Ratio Multi-Source Inverter Based on Sinusoidally-Modulated Floating-Output Series-Interleaved GaN Converter. In 2024 13th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA) (pp. 924-928). IEEE.

Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., Codecasa, L., Castellazzi, A. and d’Alessandro, V., 2024, September. Numerical Investigation on the Thermal Resistance and Assembly Cost in SSC and DSC Power Modules. In 2024 30th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

SA, S.S., Rao, B.T., De, D. and Castellazzi, A., 2024, September. GaN Switch Based Novel Quadratic-Double-Boost Floating-Input High Gain DC-DC Converter. In 2024 Energy Conversion Congress & Expo Europe (ECCE Europe) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Gautam, P., Lee, Y., Takahashi, R. and Castellazzi, A., 2024, May. A Study of Pulse Density Modulation to GaN Y-Inverter. In 2024 IEEE 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2024-ECCE Asia) (pp. 4498-4503). IEEE.

Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., Codecasa, L., Castellazzi, A. and D'Alessandro, V., 2024, June. Enhancing Electrical Ruggedness in Double-Sided Cooled Power Modules. In 2024 19th Conference on Ph. D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Lee, Y., Castellazzi, A., Domae, S. and Nakamura, T., 2024, May. Regenerative Halbach-motor traction drive powered by an active-damping controlled interleaved Y-inverter. In 2024 IEEE 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2024-ECCE Asia) (pp. 4194-4199). IEEE.

Vardi, H., Lee, Y. and Castellazzi, A., 2024, May. Assessment of POL Technology for SiC-based Integrated Modular Motor Drive Development. In 2024 IEEE 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2024-ECCE Asia) (pp. 3706-3712). IEEE.

Sakuraba, Y., Onishi, S., Yonghwa, L. and Castellazi, A., 2024, May. 3-phase sinosoidally-modulated 3MHz-switching GaN power converter for non-resonant WPT applications. In 2024 IEEE 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2024-ECCE Asia) (pp. 4244-4249). IEEE.

2023
Lee, Y. and Castellazzi, A., 2023. High-temperature integrated SiC MOSFET bi-directional switch in power-overlay technology. Microelectronics Reliability, 151, p.115223.

Kwak, J. and Castellazzi, A., 2023. Electro-thermal stress minimisation of motor-drive inverter switches by hybrid modulation strategy technique. Microelectronics Reliability, 150, p.115221.

Lee, Y. and Castellazzi, A., 2023, August. Implementation of AC current-sensor-less control and high-frequency modulation of an all-SiC Current Source Inverter. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Sensorless Control for Electrical Drives (SLED) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

Sakuraba, Y., Onishi, S., Lee, Y. and Castellazzi, A., 2023, August. Sinusoidally-modulated 3MHz-switching GaN stepdown converter for non-resonant 150kHz WPT applications. In 2023 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications in Asia (WiPDA Asia) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

Kwak, J. and Castellazzi, A., 2023, May. Parametric Co-design of Machine-Inverter using Wide Band Gap and Three-level ANPC Inverter for 800V Traction System. In 2023 11th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2023-ECCE Asia) (pp. 3017-3022). IEEE.

Borghese, A., Castellazzi, A. and Irace, A., 2023, August. α-Ga 2 O 3 SBD switching performance in PFC application. In 2023 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications in Asia (WiPDA Asia) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Nagpala, L.A. and Castellazzi, A., 2023, August. High-frequency All SiC Improved Quadratic Boost Converter. In 2023 IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications in Asia (WiPDA Asia) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Y. Lee, S. Avilès, C. Duchesne, P. Lasserre and A. Castellazzi, "IMS-based integrated SiC-MOSFET bidirectional switches for advanced CSI implementation," 2023 11th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2023 - ECCE Asia), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 45-52, doi: 10.23919/ICPE2023-ECCEAsia54778.2023.10213803.

H. J. Jaber, K. Horie, S. Domae and A. Castellazzi, "Dual switching-frequency hybrid Si-SiC Y-Inverter," 2023 11th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2023 - ECCE Asia), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 757-763, doi: 10.23919/ICPE2023-ECCEAsia54778.2023.10213982.
 
Kwak, J. and Castellazzi, A., 2023. State-of-the-Art 800 V Electric Drive Systems: Inverter–Machine Codesign for Energy Efficiency Optimization. Electronics, 12(14), p.3063.

Castellazzi, A., 2023. Trends and Challenges in Wide-Band-Gap Power Semiconductors Packaging. Journal of The Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging, 26(5), pp.454-459.

Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., D'Alessandro, E., Jaber, H.J. and Castellazzi, A., 2023, May. Coupled structural and functional characterization and modelling of integrated GaN half-bridge power switches. In 2023 35th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) (pp. 306-309). IEEE.

Lee, Y., Castellazzi, A., Avilès, S., Duchesne, C. and Lasserre, P., 2023, May. SiC MOSFET bi-directional switch IMS module design. In 2023 35th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) (pp. 52-55). IEEE.

Matacena, I., Maresca, L., Riccio, M., Irace, A., Breglio, G., Castellazzi, A. and Daliento, S., 2023, July. SiC MOSFETs Biased CV Curves: A Temperature Investigation. In Materials Science Forum (Vol. 1091, pp. 31-36). Trans Tech Publications Ltd.

Naveed, M.M. and Castellazzi, A., 2023. A Single Phase GaN GITs-Based Bidirectional Multilevel Inverter for High Voltage Grid Tied Photovoltaic Power System. Electric Power Components and Systems, pp.1-16.

Trang, H., Castellazzi, A., Domae, S., Dong, T. and Nakamura, T., 2023. Light Electric Vehicle Motor-Drive Design Based on Hybrid Si/SiC Y-Inverter and Dual-Rotor Halbach Machine. Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, 18(1), pp.367-376.

2022
Lee, Y. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, September. Implementation options of a fully SiC Buck-CSI for advanced motor drive application. In 2022 24th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'22 ECCE Europe) (pp. P-1). IEEE.

Domae, S., Castellazzi, A., Jaber, H.J., Dong, T. and Nakamura, T., 2022, September. Calculating the tractive power and power conversion efficiency of battery electric vehicles using a global navigation satellite system and a road elevation database. In 2022 24th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'22 ECCE Europe) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Shiogai, Y., Castellazzi, A. and Hikihara, T., 2022, May. Characterization and switching strategy development for SMP SiC power modules. In 2022 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Himeji 2022-ECCE Asia) (pp. 2268-2274). IEEE.

Fukunaga, S., Castellazzi, A. and Funaki, T., 2022, May. Reliable design of SiC MOSFET power modules: experimental characterization for aging prediction. In 2022 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Himeji 2022-ECCE Asia) (pp. 151-156). IEEE.

Bayarkhuu, B., Tripathi, R.N., Omura, I. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, May. Hybrid GaN-SiC Power Switches for Optimum Switching, Conduction and Free-Wheeling Performance. In 2022 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) (pp. 301-304). IEEE.

Fukunaga, S., Castellazzi, A. and Funaki, T., 2022, May. Development of reliable multi-chip power modules with parallel planar-and trench-gate SiC MOSFETs. In 2022 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) (pp. 181-184). IEEE.

Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., d’Alessandro, V., Codecasa, L. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, June. Defect Detection in Double-Sided Cooled Power Modules by Structure Functions. In 2022 17th Conference on Ph. D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME) (pp. 17-20). IEEE.

Mohanta, M.K., De, D., Sahu, S. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, September. Mitigation of Dead-Time Effects on Transient DC Bias Elimination in Dual Active Bridge Link Current. In 2022 24th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'22 ECCE Europe) (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Kwak, J. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, September. Inverter-machine parametric co-design for energy efficient electric drives. In 2022 24th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'22 ECCE Europe) (pp. 1-10). IEEE.

Jaber, H.J. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, September. Frequency and Modulation Index Related Effects in Continuous and Discontinuous Modulated Y-Inverter for Motor-Drive Applications. In 2022 24th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'22 ECCE Europe) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Endo, Y., Minami, M., Jaber, H.J. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, September. Experimental study of interleaved Y-Inverter performance. In 2022 24th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'22 ECCE Europe) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Lee, Y. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, November. Discrete-time optimization of current-sensor-less control for a high-frequency all-SiC CSI converter. In 2022 25th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

Endo, Y., Jaber, H.J., Minami, M. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, November. Floating output series interleaved boost-only GaN Y-Inverter. In 2022 25th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Matacena, I., Maresca, L., Riccio, M., Irace, A., Breglio, G., Castellazzi, A. and Daliento, S., 2022, July. SiC/SiO 2 interface traps effect on SiC MOSFETs Gate capacitance with biased Drain. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

Matacena, I., Maresca, L., Riccio, M., Irace, A., Breglio, G., Daliento, S. and Castellazzi, A., 2022. SiC MOSFET CV Characteristics with Positive Biased Drain. In Materials Science Forum (Vol. 1062, pp. 653-657). Trans Tech Publications Ltd.

Tripathi, R.N. and Castellazzi, A., 2022, May. GaN-based High Frequency NIBB dc-dc Converter with Feedback Control Using FPGA. In 2022 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Himeji 2022-ECCE Asia) (pp. 492-497). IEEE.

Sakuraba, Y., Takahashi, R. and Castellazzi, A., 2022. New Approach to 150 kHz WPT by Sinusoidally Modulated Step-Down Converter. IEICE Proceedings Series, 71(C2L-B-04).
 
2021
Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., Riccio, M., d’Alessandro, V., Codecasa, L., Borghese, A., Tripathi, R.N., Castellazzi, A., Breglio, G. and Irace, A., 2021. Compact Modeling of a 3.3 kV SiC MOSFET Power Module for Detailed Circuit-Level Electrothermal Simulations Including Parasitics. Energies, 14(15), p.4683.

Tran, H.N., Castellazzi, A., Domae, S., Dong, T. and Nakamura, T., 2021, October. Low-voltage-battery powered hybrid-GaN/SiC Y-Inverter dual-rotor Halbach motor drive for light electric vehicles. In 2021 24th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS) (pp. 699-704). IEEE.

Garcia, J., Saeed, S., Gurpinar, E. and Castellazzi, A., 2021. A Study of Integrated Signal and Power Transfer for Compact Isolated SiC MOSFET Gate-Drivers. Electronics, 10(2), p.159.

Dong, T., Kwak, J., Wei, L., Castellazzi, A. and Nakamura, T., 2021, October. High power-density high-efficiency electric drive design with halbach-rotor pmsm and wbg-based high-frequency inverter. In 2021 24th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS) (pp. 1759-1762). IEEE.

Castellazzi, A., 2021, June. Opportunities and challenges of integrated WBG power electronics development. In 2021 third international symposium on 3D power electronics integration and manufacturing (3D-PEIM) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Shiogai, Y., Castellazzi, A. and Hikihara, T., 2021, May. Split-mid-point modular design for low-load efficiency boost in WBG power converters. In 2021 IEEE 12th Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition-Asia (ECCE-Asia) (pp. 1958-1963). IEEE.

Dash, A., Mohanta, M.K., De, D., Abhishek, P. and Castellazzi, A., 2021, May. Modeling and Mitigation of Transformer Saturation in Dual-Active-Bridge Converter. In 2021 IEEE 12th Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition-Asia (ECCE-Asia) (pp. 408-413). IEEE.

Maharana, S., Mukherjee, S., De, D. and Castellazzi, A., 2021, January. Dead-Time Compensated Dual Active Bridge with Online Hybrid Optimized Operation. In 2021 1st International Conference on Power Electronics and Energy (ICPEE) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Ikeda, T., Castellazzi, A. and Hikihara, T., 2021, May. Modulation Options for a High-Frequency High-Efficiency GaN-Based Non-Inverting Buck-Boost DC-DC Converter. In 2021 IEEE 12th Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition-Asia (ECCE-Asia) (pp. 2193-2198). IEEE.

Catalano, A.P., Scognamillo, C., Castellazzi, A., Codecasa, L. and d’Alessandro, V., 2021, September. Study of the thermal behavior of double-sided cooled power modules. In 2021 27th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

IKEDA, T., CASTELLAZZI, A. and HIKIHARA, T., 2021. High-Frequency and High-Efficiency Design of GaN-Based Non-Inverting Buck-Boost Converter. 電気学会研究会資料, (SPC-21-029-044/MD-21-029-044), pp.75-80.

Minami, M., Endo, Y. and Castellazzi, A., 2021. 半導体電力変換/モータドライブ合同研究会・半導体電力変換一般およびモータドライブ. 電気学会研究会資料. MD, 2021(94), pp.19-23.

Richardeau, F., Borghese, A., Castellazzi, A., Irace, A., Chazal, V. and Guibaud, G., 2021, May. Effect of gate-source bias voltage and gate-drain leakage current on the short-circuit performance of FTO-type SiC power MOSFETs. In 2021 33rd International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) (pp. 255-258). IEEE.
 
2020
Catalano, A.P., Scognamillo, C., Trani, R., Castellazzi, A. and d'Alessandro, V., 2020, September. Experimental validation of analytical models for through-PCB thermal vias. In 2020 26th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC) (pp. 249-253). IEEE.

Maharana, S., De, D. and Castellazzi, A., 2020, September. A New ZVS Zone Identification for Dual Active Bridge with a General Modulation Objective. In 2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'20 ECCE Europe) (pp. P-1). IEEE.

Borghese, A., Riccio, M., Castellazzi, A., Maresca, L., Breglio, G. and Irace, A., 2020, September. Statistical electrothermal simulation for lifetime prediction of parallel SiC MOSFETs and modules. In 2020 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESES) (Vol. 1, pp. 383-386). IEEE.

Lamantia, A., Giuliani, F. and Castellazzi, A., 2020. Power Scalable Bi-Directional DC-DC Conversion Solutions for Future Aircraft Applications. Energies, 13(20), p.5470.

Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., Castellazzi, A. and d'Alessandro, V., 2020. Numerical analysis of the thermal impact of ceramic materials in double-sided cooled power modules. In 2020 26th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

Maharana, S., Mukherjee, S., De, D., Dash, A. and Castellazzi, A., 2020. Study of dual active bridge with modified modulation techniques for reduced link current peak stress and harmonics losses in magnetics. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 56(5), pp.5035-5045.

Scognamillo, C., Catalano, A.P., Lasserre, P., Duchesne, C., d'Alessandro, V. and Castellazzi, A., 2020. Combined experimental-FEM investigation of electrical ruggedness in double-sided cooled power modules. Microelectronics Reliability, 114, p.113742.

Catalano, A.P., Scognamillo, C., d’Alessandro, V. and Castellazzi, A., 2020. Numerical simulation and analytical modeling of the thermal behavior of single-and double-sided cooled power modules. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, 10(9), pp.1446-1453.

Richardeau, F., Boige, F., Castellazzi, A., Chazal, V., Fayyaz, A., Borghese, A., Irace, A. and Guibaud, G., 2020, September. SiC MOSFETs soft and hard failure modes: Functional analysis and structural characterization. In 2020 32nd International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) (pp. 170-173). IEEE.

Castellazzi, A., Richardeau, F., Borghese, A., Boige, F., Fayyaz, A., Irace, A., Guibaud, G. and Chazal, V., 2020. Gate-damage accumulation and off-line recovery in SiC power MOSFETs with soft short-circuit failure mode. Microelectronics Reliability, 114, p.113943.