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)
Peter Killeen, Ph.D. Fall 2020, “Current Source Inverters for Synchronous Electrostatic Machine Drives”
Max Liben, M.S. Spring 2020, “Analytical Design and Testing of a Self-Cooled, Toroidally Wound Ring Motor with Integrated Propeller for Electric Rotorcraft”
Skyler Hagen, Ph.D. Fall 2019, “An Integrated Capacitive Brushless Excitation System for Wound Field Synchronous Machines Using Low-Cost Printed Circuit Boards”
Aditya Ghule, Ph.D. Fall 2019, “Torque Modulation and Self-Sensing for Separately Excited Electrostatic Machines”
Ryan Knippel, Ph.D. Spring 2019, “Rotating Capacitors with Spiral Groove Features for Hydrodynamic Gap Maintenance in Power Conversion Systems”
Andy Schroedermeier, Ph.D. Spring 2019, “Integrated Inductors, Capacitors, and Damping in Bus Bars for dv/dt Filter Applications”
Baoyun Ge, Ph.D. Spring 2018, “The Modeling, Design and Demonstration of Electrostatic Synchronous Machines”
Jiejian Dai, Ph.D. Fall 2017, “Power Electronics Design for High Power Capacitive Power Transfer”
Latest News
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 !
Congratulations to Baoyun Ge and Skyler Hagen
I am proud to share that Dr. Boayun Ge (Ludois Group alum, 2018) received Harold A. Peterson Distinguished Dissertation Award, award by UW-Madison ECE (2019). Baoyun is pictured below receiving his award with myself and …
Congrats! Ryan Knippel defends his Ph.D.
A big congratulations to Dr. Ryan Knippel, after successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis titled “Rotating Capacitors with Spiral Groove Features for Hydrodynamic Gap Maintenance in Power Conversion Systems.” In a nutshell, this work was on …
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