About me

Hey! My name is Xingyu Zhou (周星宇).

I'm a researcher, electronics engineer, and computer science fan.

I am currently exploring the research of wide bandgap power devices, which can greatly improve the conversion efficiency of electrical energy, thereby reducing carbon emissions and achieving a greener world.

I am pretty active on LinkedIn, and any connections are warmly welcome.

My passion

I am committed to researching technologies that can generate and convert electrical energy with higher efficiency and higher energy density, mainly including power electronics and wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor power devices (GaN, SiC, Ga2O3, etc.).

With the huge emission of global greenhouse gases, the earth is falling into an unprecedented climate crisis. Therefore, the sustainable replacement of fossil fuels through clean energy (such as wind energy and solar energy) has become the only solution, which puts forward an urgent requirement for electric energy conversion technology with higher efficiency and higher energy density.

Compared with traditional Si power devices, wide-bandgap power devices have ten times or even higher breakdown electric field, which means that for devices with the same power density, the size of WBG power devices is significantly reduced and the conversion efficiency is greatly improved. The unique material advantages of WBG make it possible for a long-lasting electric vehicle under current technical conditions, and it was first used in the inverter module of the 🚗 Tesla Model S3.

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My current research topic is exactly about wide-bandgap semiconductors GaN/GaO power devices！

Bio

I grew up in Jiangsu Province, China, and obtained my BEng in Electrical Engineering and MSc in Condensed Matter Physics from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2017 and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021, respectively.

Here are some of the works that I think are most exciting to me:

GaN - Development of GaN power MEMS devices

Strain-controlled power devices (2020)
Magnetosensory power devices (2023)

Power Electronics Specialization - University of Colorado Boulder on Coursera

Introduction to Power Electronics - Grade: 💯 (2016)
Converter Circuits - Grade: 💯 (2016)
Converter Control - Grade: 💯 (2020)
Advanced Converter Control Techniques - Grade: 💯 (2020)
Magnetics for Power Electronic Converters - Grade: 💯 (2020)
Capstone Design Project in Power Electronics - Grade: 90.29% (2020)

Power Electronics - Development of High Voltage Gain DC-DC converter

Switched-Inductor-Capacitor-Based Dual-Switch High-Boost DC-DC Converter (2017)

The best way to get in touch with me is to email [email protected].

Cheers 😊 Xingyu

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