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Ph.D., IIT Kharagpur
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
My research interests include high-frequency (HF) switched mode power converters (SMPC); digital control, nonlinear control, nonlinear dynamics; mixed-signal power management circuits; GaN-based HF SMPC & applications to dynamic voltage scaling in single/multi-core digital systems, 48V-to-direct PoL converters, LED driving, envelope tracking power and class-D audio amplifiers, cloud computing, data center, 48/380V DC grid, DC/AC/DC systems, and electric vehicle.
Single-Inductor Multi-Output-Level Buck Converter for Reducing Voltage-Transition Time and Energy Overheads in Low Power DVS-Enabled Systems by Kapat S., Kumar I. IEEE Trans Power Electronics - (2017)
Parameter-Insensitive Mixed-Signal Hysteresis-Band Current Control for Point-of-Load Converters with Fixed Frequency and Robust Stability by Kapat S. IEEE Trans Power Electronics 32 5760-5770 (2017)
A Unified Framework for Analysis and Design of a Digitally Current-Mode Controlled Buck Converter by Singha A. K., Kapat S. IEEE Trans. Cir. Syst. I 63 2098-2107 (2016)
Unified Digital Current Mode Control Tuning with Near Optimal Recovery in a CCM Buck Converter by I. Kumar and S. Kapat IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 99 - (2016)
Reconfigurable Periodic Bi-frequency DPWM with Custom Harmonic Reduction in DC-DC Converters by S. Kapat IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 31 3380 - 3388 (2016)
Voltage-mode Digital Pulse Skipping Control of a DC-DC Converter with Stable Periodic Behavior and Improved Light-load Efficiency by Kapat S., Mandi B. , Patra A. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 31 3372-3379 (2016)
Configurable Multi-mode Digital Control for Light Load DC-DC Converters with Improved Spectrum and Smooth Transition by S. Kapat IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 31 2680 - 2688 (2016)
Nonlinear Analysis of Discretization Effects in a Digital Current Mode Controlled Boost Converter by Singha A. K., Kapat S. , Banerjee S. , Pal J. IEEE J. Emerg. Selected Topics Cir. Systs 5 336-344 (2015)
Selectively Sampled Sub-harmonic Free Digital Current Mode Control Using Direct Duty Control by S. Kapat IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II 62 311 - 315 (2015)
Near Null Response to Large Signal Transients in an Augmented Buck Converter: A Geometric Approach by S. Kapat, P. Shenoy, and P. Krein IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 27 3319 - 3329 (2012)
Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) DC-DC Converter for Normal SOCs STMicroelectronics International N.V.
Gallium Nitride (GaN) - based High-frequency Digitally Current-mode Controlled Power Factor Corrector with High Efficiency, Small Size and Reduced Input-Current Distoration Indian National Science Academy
Development of Scalable GaN-Based Distributed Dynamic Power Management System for IoT Applications with On-Demand Thermal Management (Project ID : 7188) Department of Electronics and Information Technology
Hariharan K
Area of Research: Digital power management for LED drivers
Somnath Khatua
Area of Research: Power Electronics and Machine Drives
Mrinmay Bhowmik
Area of Research: Power electronics and energy storage
Ruturaj Garnayak
Area of Research: Solar Energy Systems
Prantik Majumder
Area of Research: Digital control in high frequency AC/DC converters
Dipayan Chatterjee
Area of Research: Battery chargers and power management system
Anirban Nanda
Area of Research: Architectures, Modulation and Digital Control of Multi-Output DC-DC Converters for Electric Vehicles
Faraz Ahmad
Area of Research: Control of Power Converters for DC Microgrid Applications
