Publications

2025

Z. Ye, K. Liang and J. M. Rivas-Davila, “On The Design of Switched-Mode Broadband High Frequency Power Inverters,” 2025 IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Knoxville, TN, USA, 2025, pp. 1-8. (Best Paper Award) [Calculator]

Z. Ye, E. Stolt, K. Surakitbovorn and J. Rivas-Davila, “Broadband High-Frequency Power Modulation With Resistance Regulation Network,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 16560-16571, Nov. 2025.

E. Stolt, M. Affolter, Z. Ye and J. Rivas-Davila, “Current Mode Control for High Frequency Piezoelectric Resonator-Based DC–DC Converters,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 12730-12738, Sept. 2025.

Z. Ye and J. Rivas, “Highly-Efficient Switched-Mode Radio Frequency Power Amplifier for Magnetic Resonance,” in Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of ISMRM.

C. H. Lin, Z. Ye and J. Rivas-Davila, “A 50-MHz GaN Class-Φ2 Power Amplifier With a CMOS-Based Resonant Gate Driver,” in IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 139-145, June 2025. (Student Design Competition Winner)

Z. Ye and J. Rivas, “Broadband High Frequency Power Conversion With Frequency-Tuning Matching Network,” in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 6, pp. 120-129, 2025.

Z. Ye, K. Surakitbovorn, C. H. Lin and J. Rivas-Davila, “Design of a High-Voltage Low-Ripple Converter With High-Frequency Dickson Multipliers,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 401-410, Jan. 2025.

2024

C. H. Lin, Z. Ye and J. Rivas-Davila, “High-Speed Power Modulation of a Series-Stacked Φ2 RF Power Amplifier,” 2024 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Lahore, Pakistan, 2024, pp. 1-6.

M. Yang, E. A. Stolt, Z. Ye and J. M. Rivas-Davila, “Piezoelectric Based Class-E Resonant Inverter for Driving Surface Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma,” 2024 IEEE 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2024-ECCE Asia), Chengdu, China, 2024, pp. 367-372. (Best Poster Award)

Z. Ye, C. H. Lin and J. Rivas-Davila, “Class-Φ2 Power Amplifier With Resonant Gate Driver: High-Efficiency Power Amplifier for 50 MHz,” in IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 88-92, June 2024. (Student Design Competition Winner)

Z. Ye, K. Surakitbovorn, C. Lin and J. Rivas-Davila, “Frequency-tuning Matching Network for Load-varying Applications,” 2024 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2024. (Best Presentation Award)

Z. Ye, C. Lin and J. Rivas-Davila, “Comparison of GaN and Si Devices in a 50 MHz Class Φ2 Converter,” 2024 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2024, pp. 1790-1793.

C. H. Lin, Z. Ye, E. Stolt and J. Rivas-Davila, “1 kW 6.78 MHz Push-Pull Φ2 Amplifier for Induction Heating,” 2024 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2024, pp. 595-599.

2023

Z. Ye, K. Surakitbovorn, S. Park and J. Rivas-Davila, “A Low-Ripple High-Frequency High-Voltage Power Supply for Ion Pumps,” 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 2074-2079. (Best Presentation Award)

2022

Z. Tong, Z. Ye and J. Rivas-Davila, “Class DE Switch-Mode Power Amplifier Using GaN Power HEMTs: High-Efficiency Power Amplifier for 13.56 MHz,” in IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 72-79, March 2022. (Student Design Competition Winner)

2021

Z. Ye, Z. Tong, L. Gu and J. Rivas-Davila, “A High Frequency Resonant Gate Driver for SiC MOSFETs,” 2021 IEEE 22nd Workshop on Control and Modelling of Power Electronics (COMPEL), Cartagena, Colombia, 2021, pp. 1-5. (Best Paper Award)

2020

J. Xu, L. Gu, Z. Ye, S. Kargarrazi and J. M. Rivas-Davila, “Cascode GaN/SiC: A Wide-Bandgap Heterogenous Power Device for High-Frequency Applications,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 6340-6349, June 2020.

2019

J. Xu, L. Gu, Z. Ye, S. Kargarrazi and J. Rivas-Davila, “Cascode GaN/SiC Power Device for MHz Switching,” 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 2780-278.

Z. Tong, L. Gu, Z. Ye, K. Surakitbovorn and J. Rivas-Davila, “On the Techniques to Utilize SiC Power Devices in High- and Very High-Frequency Power Converters,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 12181-12192, Dec. 2019.