Ayyanar
PDF versionRaja Ayyanar
- Associate Professor
- Electrical Engineering
Rajapandian Ayyanar joined the ASU faculty as an assistant professor in August 2000. He received a BE in electrical engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, India in 1989; an MS in power electronics from the Indian Institute of Science in 1995; and a PhD in power electronics from the University of Minnesota in 2000. He has published over 50 journal and conference papers in the area of switch mode power electronics and holds two U.S. patents. Dr. Ayyanar was awarded the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2005.
Power electronics, DC-DC converters, voltage regulators and power management, power conversion and control for renewable energy interface especially PV and wind, smart grid technologies, plug-in electric vehicles, digital PWM techniques for motor drives.
University Of Minnesota 2000
Indian Institute of Science 1995
P.S.G. College of Technology - India 1989
R. Ayyanar and B.S. Oraw, “Voltage Regulator Optimization Using Multiwinding Coupled Inductors and Extended Duty Ratio Mechanisms,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 24, 1494-1505, June 2009.
R. Ayyanar, H.K. Krishnamurthy and X. Mao, “Optimal Variable Switching Frequency Scheme for Reducing Switching Loss in Single-Phase Inverters Based on Time-Domain Ripple Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 24, 991-1001, April 2009.
R. Ayyanar and X. Mao, “Average and Phasor Models of Single Phase PV Generators for Analysis and Simulation of Large Power Distribution Systems,” Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), 1964-1970, Feb 15-19, 2009.
G. Narayanan, D. Zhao, H.K. Krishnamurthy, R. Ayyanar and V.T. Ranganathan, “Space vector based hybrid PWM techniques for reduced current ripple,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 55, 1614-1627, April 2008.
V. Choudhary, E. Ledezma, R. Ayyanar and R.M. Button, “Fault tolerant circuit topology and control method for input-series and output-parallel modular DC-DC converters,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 23, 402-411, January 2008.
R. Ayyanar, and N. Mohan, "Zero Voltage Switching DC-DC Converter," U.S. patents 6,611,444 and 6,310,785.
N. Nimpitiwan, G. T. Heydt, R. Ayyanar, and S. Suryanarayanan, “Fault Current Contribution From Synchronous Machine and Inverter Based Distributed Generators,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 22, no. 1, 634 – 641, January 2007.
