Our Focus
Our focus is to enhance power conversion systems via new dielectric materials, geometric optimization, and power electronics operating at high frequency or high voltage.
Power Electronics
To enable new technologies and minimize the impact of passive components within circuits.
Electric Machines
To make electric machines more sustainable and perform better.
Wireless Power Transfer
To implement capacitive coupling for wireless power transfer
Our Team
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Past Group Members (Alumni)
- Michael Mayberry, M.S. Summer 2021, “Towards Electrostatic Levitation of Macroscale Rotating Machines,” employment after graduation: General Motors
- Peter Killeen, Ph.D. Fall 2020, “Current Source Inverters for Synchronous Electrostatic Machine Drives,” employment after graduation: C-Motive Technologies
- Max Liben, M.S. Spring 2020, “Analytical Design and Testing of a Self-Cooled, Toroidally Wound Ring Motor with Integrated Propeller for Electric Rotorcraft,” employment after graduation: Tesla Motors, then co-founded H3X
- Skyler Hagen, Ph.D. Fall 2019, “An Integrated Capacitive Brushless Excitation System for Wound Field Synchronous Machines Using Low-Cost Printed Circuit Boards,” employment after graduation: John Deere
- Aditya Ghule, Ph.D. Fall 2019, “Torque Modulation and Self-Sensing for Separately Excited Electrostatic Machines,” employment after graduation: C-Motive Technologies
- Ryan Knippel, Ph.D. Spring 2019, “Rotating Capacitors with Spiral Groove Features for Hydrodynamic Gap Maintenance in Power Conversion Systems,” employment after graduation: C-Motive Technologies
- Andy Schroedermeier, Ph.D. Spring 2019, “Integrated Inductors, Capacitors, and Damping in Bus Bars for dv/dt Filter Applications,” employment after graduation: Eaton Corporation
- Baoyun Ge, Ph.D. Spring 2018, “The Modeling, Design and Demonstration of Electrostatic Synchronous Machines,” employment after graduation: C-Motive Technologies
- Jiejian Dai, Ph.D. Fall 2017, “Power Electronics Design for High Power Capacitive Power Transfer,” employment after graduation: Monolithic Power Systems: MPS
Latest News
Graduate Students (In Person Together!)
After a long year of mostly interacting at a distance, it was great to see my team of current and newly added members in person!
David Skrovanek named Public Service Fellow by WISCIENCE
David was awarded a Public Service Fellowship through the Wisconsin Institute for Science Education and Community Engagement (WISCIENCE) with which he will be able to incorporate issues of public concern with his research. Specifically, David is interested in energy and …
Two New Group Members and Two Graduates in 2020, on to 2021!
2020 was a hard year for everyone, with all hands on deck to help each other out. (Hence there hasn’t been any posts until now, the website is fairly low priority.) Despite the hardships, there …
Congrats! Skyler Hagen Defends His Ph.D.
Congratulations to Dr. Skyler Hagen on successfully defending his thesis: “An Integrated Capacitive Brushless Excitation System for Wound Field Synchronous Machines Using Low-Cost Printed Circuit Boards.”
Prof. Ludois Speaks at UW’s Wednesday Night at the Lab Seminar & Wisconsin PBS
I did this talk for the Wednesday Night at the Lab seminar series, where the general public attends a lecture by a faculty member to learn about their research at UW – Madison. This talk …
Congrats! Aditya Ghule defends his Ph.D.
Aditya’s thesis is titled: “Torque Modulation and Self-Sensing for Separately Excited Electrostatic Machines.” Congratulations Dr. Ghule!
IEEE ECCE & IAS 2019 in Baltimore MD
It was a busy conference this year! The group had a record 7 papers this year. Knippel; M. Tisler; D. C. Ludois, “Printed Circuit Board Structural Properties and Spiral Groove Trace Conductors for Hydrodynamic Gap …
Latest Crop of ECE Associate Professors: Dan Ludois, Mikhail Kats and Zongfu Yu
Zongfu, Mikhail and I received our tenure notification letters today. We’re thrilled! …And also certain we will be rewarded with more things to do… On Wisconsin!
Graduation 2019
Congratulations to Ryan Knippel, Andy Schroedermeier and Tim Polom on their Ph.D.s !
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