Albert ALEXANDER

(Post Doctoral Research Fellow)


418 Dana Research Center
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115

Voice: (857) 763-8923
telles@inep.ufsc.br

About Me:

I live in Florianopolis (Brazil), and I am an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). I was awarded for one year Post-Doctoral Scholarship (July 2017 to July 2018), sponsored by Brazilian Program of Postdoctoral. Prof. Brad Lehman accepted to host me in this period as a researcher guest of the Power Electronics Research Group at Northeastern University. I decided to come here to look for new opportunities both with respect to research interests and collaborations.

Research Interests:

Interests include swithced-capacitor converters, Inverters to connected renewable source energy to the grid, rectifiers, parallel operation of converters, high-voltage dc-dc converters and conversion systems for small wind turbines.

Ongoing Projects:

Project: DC-AC Converters to Renewable Source Energy
Description: This work researches new boost inverters that offer an output voltage higher than input voltage, to be applied into renewable source energy as photovoltaic and low-power small wind Turbne Systems. This research approaches structures, modeling and control strategies.

Project: Switched-Capacitor Converters
Description: This work researches the integration between switched-capacitor and conventional converters, which can generate new topologies to dc-dc, ac-dc, ac-ac and dc-ac conversions. The proposal is to generate new topologies with a higher rate of conversion, which can be employed in current applications as renewable energy, battery charge an distributed generation.

Publications

[1] Dias, Julio Cesar; Lazzarin, Telles Brunelli. A Family of Voltage-Multiplier Unidirectional Single-Phase Hybrid Boost PFC Rectifiers. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. v.PP (Early Access Aricle), 2017

[2] Dalla Vecchia, Mauricio; Salvador, Marcos Antonio; Lazzarin, Telles Brunelli. Hybrid Non-Isolated DC-DC Converters Derived from a Passive Switched-Capacitor Cell. IEEE Transactions in Power Electronics. v.PP (Early Access Article), 2017..

[3] Costa, Paulo J. S.; Illa Font, Carlos H.; Lazzarin, Telles B.. Single-Phase Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Voltage-Doubler SEPIC PFC Rectifiers. IEEE Transactions On Power Electronics. v.PP (Early Access Article), 2017.

[4] Costa, Paulo J.S.; Illa Font, Carlos H.; Lazzarin, Telles B.. A Family of Single-Phase Voltage-Doubler High-Power-Factor SEPIC Rectifiers Operating in DCM. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. , v.32, p.4279 - 4290, 2017.

[5] Pagliosa, Mauro Andre; Lazzarin, Telles Brunelli; Faust, Rafael Gomes; Barbi, Ivo. Input-series and output-series connected modular single-switch flyback converter operating in the discontinuous conduction mode. IET Power Electronics. , v.9, p.1962 - 1970, 2016.

[6] Lazzarin, Telles B.; Andersen, Romero L.; Barbi, Ivo. A Switched-Capacitor Three-Phase AC-AC Converter. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, v.62, p.735 - 745, 2015.

[7] Vecchia, Mauricio; Lazzarin, Telles; Barbi, Ivo. A Three-Phase AC-AC Converter in Open-Delta Connection Based on Switched Capacitor Principle. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, v.62, p.1 - 1, 2015.

[8] Lazzarin, Telles Brunelli; Barbi, Ivo; Moccelini, Marcos Paulo. Split-phase Switched-Capacitor ac-ac Converter. IET Power Electronics , v.8, p.918 - 928, 2015.

[9] Lazzarin, Telles B.; Bauer, Guilherme A. T.; Barbi, Ivo. A Control Strategy for Parallel Operation of Single-Phase Voltage Source Inverters: Analysis, Design and Experimental Results. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. v.60, p.2194 - 2204, 2013.

[10] Lazzarin, Telles B.; Barbi, Ivo. DSP-Based Control for Parallelism of Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverter. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. v.9, p.749 - 759, 2013.

[11] Andersen, R.; Lazzarin, T.; Barbi, I. A 1 kW Step-up/Step-down Switched-Capacitor AC-AC Converter. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. , v.28, p.3329 - 3340, 2012.

Awards

Affiliations

Federal University of Santa Catarina