Assistant Professor ➤
Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ➤
Cockrell School of Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Office: EER 7.866 (campus map ➤)
Phone: (512) 232-8110
Email: ajhanson@utexas.edu
About
Alex J. Hanson is an Assistant Professor in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Dartmouth College in 2014 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016 and 2019 respectively. His research interests include component- and system-level power electronics with emphasis on high-frequency magnetics and circuits. He is also interested in leveraging power and energy in diverse applications like medicine, aerospace, etc.
He received the William Portnoy prize paper award from the IAS-PEDCC in 2016.
Select Publications
For a full list, see Prof. Hanson’s Google Scholar page ➤
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- A. J. Hanson and D. J. Perreault, “A High-Frequency Power Factor Correction Stage With Low Output Voltage,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 2143-2155, Sept. 2020, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2019.2961853.
- S. Lim, A. J. Hanson, J. A. Santiago-González and D. J. Perreault, “Bus Converter Using Isolation Capacitance for ZVS and Invariant Operation,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1971-1982, Sept. 2020, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2019.2923580.
- A. J. Hanson, A. F. Martin and D. J. Perreault, “Energy and Size Reduction of Grid-Interfaced Energy Buffers Through Line Waveform Control,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 11442-11453, Nov. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2019.2900021.
- R. S. Yang, A. J. Hanson, B. A. Reese, C. R. Sullivan and D. J. Perreault, “A Low-Loss Inductor Structure and Design Guidelines for High-Frequency Applications,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 9993-10005, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2019.2892397.
- A. J. Hanson, J. A. Belk, S. Lim, C. R. Sullivan and D. J. Perreault, “Measurements and Performance Factor Comparisons of Magnetic Materials at High Frequency,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 7909-7925, Nov. 2016, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2514084.
- B. J. Galapon, A. J. Hanson and D. J. Perreault, “Measuring Dynamic On Resistance in GaN Transistors at MHz Frequencies,” 2018 IEEE 19th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Padua, Italy, 2018, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/COMPEL.2018.8460051.
- A. J. Hanson, R. S. Yang, S. Lim and D. J. Perreault, “A soft-switched high frequency converter for wide voltage and power ranges,” 2016 IEEE International Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC), Austin, TX, USA, 2016, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/INTLEC.2016.7749103.