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Yunting Liu

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Electrical Engineering

319 Electrical Engineering East

ypl5778@psu.edu

814-863-5760

Personal or Departmental Website

Research Areas:

Power Electronics - Converter Design, Control, and Reliability; Renewable Energy Integration; Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Applications

 
 

 

Education

  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University, 2019

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Katherine A. Kim, Yunting Liu, Stephanie Watts Butler, Sneha Narasimhan, Kristen Parrish, Mhret Berhe Gebremariam and Christina DiMarino, 2023, "Women in IEEE PELS", IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, 10, (3), pp. 76-83
  • Yunting Liu, Leon M. Tolbert, Paychuda Kritprajun, Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Thomas Ben Ollis, Kevin P. Schneider and Kumaraguru Prabakar, 2022, "Fast Quasi-Static Time-Series Simulation for Accurate PV Inverter Semiconductor Fatigue Analysis with a Long-Term Solar Profile", Energies, 15, (23), pp. 9104
  • Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Qihuan Dong, Paychuda Kritprajun, Yunting Liu, Yilu Liu, Leon M. Tolbert, Joshua C. Hambrick, Yaosuo Sonny Xue, T. Ben Ollis, Bishnu P. Bhattarai, Kevin P. Schneider and Stuart Laval, 2022, "Integrating Transactive Energy Into Reliability Evaluation for a Self-Healing Distribution System With Microgrid", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 13, (1), pp. 122-134
  • Yunting Liu and Fang Z. Peng, 2021, "DC Capacitor-Less Solid-State Variable Capacitor", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 36, (3), pp. 3540-3550
  • Taylor L. Short, Shuyao Wang, Leon M. Tolbert, Jingxin Wang, Yiwei Ma, Yunting Liu and Fred Wang, 2021, "Primary Frequency Control Using Motor Drives for Short Term Grid Disturbances", IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications, 2, pp. 1-10
  • Yunting Liu, Xiaorui Wang, Wei Qian, Ameer Janabi, Bingsen Wang, Xi Lu, Ke Zou, Chingchi Chen and Fang Z. Peng, 2020, "A Simple Phase-Shift Modulation Using Parabolic Carrier for Dual Active Bridge DC–DC Converter", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 35, (8), pp. 7729-7734
  • Yunting Liu, Leon M. Tolbert, Paychuda Kritprajun, Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Joshua Hambrick, Kevin P. Schneider and Kumaraguru Prabakar, 2020, "Aging Effect Analysis of PV Inverter Semiconductors for Ancillary Services Support", IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications, 1, pp. 157-170
  • Leon M. Tolbert, Fred Wang, Kevin Tomsovic, Kai Sun, Jingxin Wang, Yiwei Ma and Yunting Liu, 2020, "Reconfigurable Real-Time Power Grid Emulator for Systems With High Penetration of Renewables", IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 7, pp. 489-500
  • Yunting Liu and Fang Zheng Peng, 2020, "A Modular Multilevel Converter With Self-Voltage Balancing Part I: Mathematical Proof", IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 8, (2), pp. 1117-1125
  • Yunting Liu and Fang Zheng Peng, 2020, "A Modular Multilevel Converter With Self-Voltage Balancing Part II: Y-Matrix Modulation", IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 8, (2), pp. 1126-1133
  • Yunting Liu, Xiaorui Wang and Fang Zheng Peng, 2018, "An H-Bridge-Based Single-Phase VAr Generator With Minimum DC Capacitance", IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 6, (4), pp. 2001-2014
  • Runruo Chen, Yunting Liu and Fang Zheng Peng, 2017, "A Solid State Variable Capacitor With Minimum Capacitor", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 32, (7), pp. 5035-5044
  • Runruo Chen, Yunting Liu and Fang Zheng Peng, 2015, "DC Capacitor-Less Inverter for Single-Phase Power Conversion With Minimum Voltage and Current Stress", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 30, (10), pp. 5499-5507

Conference Proceedings

  • Paychuda Kritprajun, Elizabeth Sutton, Leon M. Tolbert, Yunting Liu, Jingxin Wang, Nattapat Praisuwanna and Maximiliano Ferrari, 2023, "Development of a Converter-based Supercapacitor System Emulator for PV Applications", pp. 1-5
  • Paychuda Kritprajun, Leon M. Tolbert, Jingjing Sun, Jingxin Wang, Nattapat Praisuwanna, Yunting Liu and Maximiliano Ferrari, 2023, "State of Charge Management for Grid-Connected PV with Supercapacitor System Considering LVRT Operation", pp. 1-5
  • Qihuan Dong, Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Paychuda Kritprajun, Yunting Liu, Yilu Liu, Leon M. Tolbert, Joshua C. Hambrick, Kevin Schneider and Stuart Laval, 2021, "Impact of Self-healing Control on Reliability Evaluation in Distribution System with Microgrid", pp. 1-5
  • Yunting Liu, Leon M. Tolbert, Paychuda Kritprajun, Qihuan Dong, Lin Zhu, Joshua C. Hambrick, Kevin Schneider and Kumaraguru Prabakar, 2021, "Quasi-Static Time Series Fatigue Simulation for PV Inverter Semiconductors with Long-Term Solar Profile", pp. 01-05
  • Qihuan Dong, Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Yunting Liu, Paychuda Kritprajun, Leon M. Tolbert, Stuart Laval, Kevin Schneider and Yilu Liu, 2021, "Resilience Evaluation of Advanced Distribution Grids with Self-healing Control, Microgrid and Transactable Reactive Power", pp. 1-5
  • Mikaela T. M. Barra, Maxwel S. Santos, de Souza, Victor R. F. B., Flavio B. Costa, Luciano S. Barros and Yunting Liu, 2021, "Comparison Between Two-Level and Modular Multilevel Converters in High Voltage Direct Current Systems Under Fault Conditions", pp. 1-6
  • Paychuda Kritprajun, Joshua C. Hambrick, Leon M. Tolbert, Yunting Liu, Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Qihuan Dong and Kevin Schneider, 2021, "Reactive Power Allocation of PV Inverters for Voltage Support in Power Systems Based on Transactive Energy Approach", pp. 756-763
  • Liang Chen, Yue Li and Yunting Liu, 2020, "Human body gesture recognition method based on deep learning", pp. 587-591
  • Yunting Liu, Paychuda Kritprajun, Leon M. Tolbert, Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Joshua C. Hambrick, Kevin Schneider and Bishnu P. Bhattarai, 2020, "Modeling of Marginal Cost for PV Inverter Ancillary Services Considering Inverter Aging under Transactive Energy Framework", pp. 1-5
  • Yunting Liu, Fang Z. Peng and Leon M. Tolbert, 2020, "Arm Inductance Quantification for Y-Matrix Modulated Modular Multilevel Converter", pp. 3499-3504
  • Jacob Buys, Ameer Janabi, Wei Qian, Xiaorui Wang, Yunting Liu, Bingsen Wang, Xi Lu, Ke Zou, Chingchi Chen and Fang Z. Peng, 2020, "Bidirectional Universal Converter Transformer Design for Electric Vehicle Onboard Charging", pp. 4094-4096
  • Yunting Liu, Haiguo Li, Yiwei Ma, Jingxin Wang, Leon M. Tolbert, Fred Wang and Kevin L. Tomsovic, 2020, "Decoupling Capacitor Design for Multi-Inverter Based Grid Emulator System", pp. 2322-2327
  • Liang Chen, Guanchen Zhou, Yunting Liu and Jiahui Jin, 2020, "Overview of Face Attribute Generation", pp. 610-615
  • Xin Xu, Yunting Liu, Kai Sun, Leon M. Tolbert and Suman Debnath, 2020, "Simulation of Modular Multilevel Converter System Via an Analytical Approach", pp. 1-5
  • Yunting Liu, Leon M. Tolbert, Fred Wang and Fang Z. Peng, 2020, "Three-Phase DC Capacitor-Less Solid-State Variable Capacitor", pp. 1945-1950
  • Paychuda Kritprajun, Joshua C. Hambrick, Leon M. Tolbert, Jiaojiao Dong, Lin Zhu, Yunting Liu, Bishnu Bhattarai, Kevin Schneider and Stuart Laval, 2020, "VOLTTRON™ Agent Development for Enabling Reactive Power Support of Non-Utility DERs by Integrating Transactive Energy Approach", pp. 1-5
  • Yunting Liu and Fang Zheng Peng, 2019, "A Four-Level Modular Multilevel Converter with Self Voltage Balancing and Extremely Small DC Capacitor", pp. 2865-2871
  • Yunting Liu, Xiaorui Wang, Wei Qian, Ameer Janabi, Bingsen Wang, Xi Lu, Ke Zou, Chingchi Chen and Fang Z. Peng, 2019, "DC Voltage Control of Inverter Interfaced Dual Active Bridge Converter for V2L applications", pp. 319-324
  • Xiaorui Wang, Yunting Liu, Wei Qian, Ameer Janabi, Bingsen Wang, Xi Lu, Ke Zou, Chingchi Chen and Fang Z. Peng, 2019, "Design, and Control of a SiC Isolated Bidirectional Power Converter for V2L Applications to both DC and AC Load", pp. 143-150
  • Yunting Liu and Fang Zheng Peng, 2019, "A Modular Multilevel Converter with Self Voltage Balancing", pp. 97-111
  • Yunting Liu, Xiaorui Wang, Wei Qian, Ameer Janabi, Bingsen Wang, Xi Lu, Ke Zou, Chingchi Chen and Fang Z. Peng, 2019, "Direct Power Control for Dual Active Bridge Converter with Parabolic Carrier", pp. 157-163
  • Xiaorui Wang, Yunting Liu, Wei Qian, Bingsen Wang, Xi Lu, Ke Zou, Nomar González-Santini, Ujjwal Karki, Fang Z. Peng and Chingchi Chen, 2018, "A 25kW SiC Universal Power Converter Building Block for G2V, V2G, and V2L Applications", pp. 1-6
  • Yunting Liu and Fang Zheng Peng, 2018, "A carrier magnitude varying modulation for distributed static series compensator to achieve a maximum reactive power generating capability", pp. 1597-1602
  • Yunting Liu and Fang Zheng Peng, 2017, "Real DC capacitor-less active capacitors", pp. 44-51
  • Yunting Liu, Hui Guo and Yuanwei Jing, 2016, "Acoustic source localization based quantized information for wireless sensor networks", pp. 6541-6544
  • Runruo Chen, Hulong Zeng, Deepak Gunasekaran, Yunting Liu and Fang Z. Peng, 2016, "Development of 2-kW interleaved DC-capacitor-less single-phase inverter system", pp. 1045-1050
  • Runruo Chen, Yunting Liu, Petros Taskas and Fang Z. Peng, 2015, "Design of control system for solid state variable capacitor with minimum DC capacitor", pp. 109-114
  • Zhanli Li and Yunting Liu, 2009, "Research on the Visualization and Simulation of Branch Breaking Based on Physical and Stochastic Approaches", pp. 1-4

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