News

2025

March 2025

Graduate student Soham Roy gave a lecture at the Texas ECE Outstanding Student Lecture Series 2025.


Prof. Alex Hanson along with graduate students Alyssa Brown and Elaine Ng gave one of the Professional Education Seminars at IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) 2025, titled “Magnetics Scaling and Constraints”.

Abstract on APEC 2025 website

Link to Slides for APEC 2025 PE Seminar


Our journal paper, “High-Rate Deposition and Characterization Study of CoZrO Films for On-Chip Power Applications”, was published in Advanced Engineering Materials, led by graduate student Elaine Ng, in collaboration with Dr. Leopoldo Hernandez and Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia of the Integrated Nano Computing Lab (INC Lab), Dr. Elizabeth Young-Dohe from NASA Glenn Research Center, and Dr. Jianliang Lin from the Southwest Research Institute.

Link to journal paper


Prof. Alex Hanson, Alyssa Brown, and Elaine Ng wrote a chapter titled, “Magnetic Material Selection for Power Inductors and Transformers”, in IET Handbook on Inductive Devices in Power Electronics, that was just published! (We are chapter 6.)

Link to IET Handbook


February 2025

Prof. Alex Hanson has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective August 2025.

Linkedin announcement from Texas ECE


2024

November 2024

Graduate students Soham Roy, Alyssa Brown, Pushkar Saraf and Haoyu Wang were awarded Student Attendance Support for APEC 2025.


October 2024

Congrats to Duy Nguyen for earning his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering!


September 2024

Our journal paper “Parallel Resonant Loss Characterization of High-Frequency Magnetic Components” was published in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), led by graduate student Alyssa Brown.

Link to journal paper


August 2024

Graduate student Yihao Wu received a travel grant for his student project demonstration “Dual-PWM Controlled Boost Active Bridge for Bidirectional Inductive Power Transfer with Wide Impedance and Output Range” at ECCE 2024.


July 2024

Our journal paper “Synchronously Switched Active EMI Filter” was published in IEEE Transactions in Power Electronics (TPEL), led by graduate student Duy Nguyen.

Link to journal paper


April 2024

Graduate student Alyssa Brown was awarded the NSF GRFP fellowship.


February 2024

Prof. Alex Hanson, Dr. Michael Solomentsev and Soham Roy won an NSF I-Corps™ grant for innovative power technology.

Link to announcement



2023

November 2023

Congrats to Michael Solomentsev for earning his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering!


Graduate student Yihao Wu was awarded Student Attendance Support for APEC 2024.


July 2023

Graduate students Soham Roy, Pushkar Saraf and Michael Solomentsev were awarded Professional Development Awards for COMPEL 2023.


April 2023

Graduate student Elaine Ng was awarded the NASA Space Technologies Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) fellowship.



2022

November 2022

Our journal paper “At What Frequencies Should Air-Core Magnetics Be Used?” was published in IEEE Transactions in Power Electronics (TPEL), led by graduate student Michael Solomentsev.

Link to journal paper


October 2022

Our journal paper “Modeling Current Distribution Within Conductors and Between Parallel Conductors in High-Frequency Magnetics?” was published in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics (OJPEL), led by graduate student Michael Solomentsev.

Link to journal paper


August 2022

Prof. Alex Hanson published an Early Career Materials Researcher paper in MRS Communications, titled “Opportunities in magnetic materials for high-frequency power conversion”.

Link to journal paper


March 2022

Graduate student Michael Solomentsev received a best presentation award for his paper “At what frequencies should air-core magnetics be used?” at IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) 2022.

Link to conference paper



2021

June 2021

Graduate student Michael Solomentsev received a best presentation award for his paper “Modeling Current Distribution Within Conductors and Between Parallel Conductors in High Frequency Transformers” at IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) 2021.

Link to conference paper
Link to announcement