Moon Electronics Research Group for Energy (MERGE)

Current Research Topics

Precise In-situ Magnetic Loss Measurement

Multi-level, Multi-phase, Neutral-Point-Less Inverter for Electric Vehicles

Lateral and Vertical GaN Characterizations for Motor Drive Applications

Electromagnetic Energy Harvester

Z-source Based DC Circuit Breaker

High-frequency Power Conversion

Cybersecure Power Electronics

Group Members

Ph.D Students

Lifang Yi (Fall 2019 - )

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Lifang Yi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. Her current research interests include precise in-situ magnetic loss measurement and capacitive wireless power transfer technology.

Min Gao (Spring 2020 - )

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Min Gao received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and automation from Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, in 2019. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. Min's research interests are focused on cascaded magnetics and energy harvesting. She won the scholarship of Wuhan University for three times from 2015 to 2018.

MS Student

Undergraduate Student

Victor Bellera Tovar (Spring 2023 - )

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Victor is working on a motor drive design.

Evan Cloutier (Summer 2023 -)

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Evan is working on a switched-capacitor design.

Alumni

Diego Campos (Fall 2020 - Spring 2022)

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Diego Campos is from Panama city, Panama. He graduated in Spring 2020 as a bachelor in electrical engineering from FSU. He worked on dynamic insertion impedance control using saturable magnetics during MS. Diego went to Schlumberger after the MS graduation.

Yueqi Huang (MS, Spring 2019 - Fall 2019)

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Yueqi Huang went to General Electric Company (GE) after the MS graduation.