Fang Zheng Peng
Florida State University
Fang Zheng Peng is the Director, Energy GRID Institute and a RK Mellon Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Pittsburgh, U.S. Earlier, he was a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the Center for Advanced Power Systems, Florida State University, and a distinguished professor at Michigan State University. His primary research area is power electronics, covering the development of Z-source inverters and multilevel inverters for STATCOM application
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Fang Zheng Peng is the Director, Energy GRID Institute and a RK Mellon Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Pittsburgh, U.S. Earlier, he was a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the Center for Advanced Power Systems, Florida State University, and a distinguished professor at Michigan State University. His primary research area is power electronics, covering the development of Z-source inverters and multilevel inverters for STATCOM applications to improve power flow capability.
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Florida State University
Top Publications
- Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls, and applications (2002) - 6,731 citations
- Z-source inverter (2003) - 3,232 citations
- Multilevel converters-a new breed of power converters (2002) - 2,667 citations
- Multilevel converters-a new breed of power converters (1996) - 2,608 citations
- Four quasi-Z-Source inverters (2008) - 1,175 citations
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- Full name
- Fang Zheng Peng
- ORCID
- 0000-0003-0827-333X
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5101495341
Research interests
- Multilevel Inverters and Converters, Advanced DC-DC Converters, HVDC Systems and Fault Protection, Power Quality and Harmonics, Microgrid Control and Optimization
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- Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls, and applications ↗2002 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics6,731OpenAlex citations
- Z-source inverter ↗2003 · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications3,232OpenAlex citations
- Multilevel converters-a new breed of power converters ↗2002 · Conference record2,667OpenAlex citations
- Multilevel converters-a new breed of power converters ↗1996 · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications2,608OpenAlex citations
- Four quasi-Z-Source inverters ↗2008 · PESC record1,175OpenAlex citations
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- Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls, and applications ↗2002 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- Z-source inverter ↗2003 · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
- Multilevel converters-a new breed of power converters ↗2002 · Conference record
- Multilevel converters-a new breed of power converters ↗1996 · IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
- Four quasi-Z-Source inverters ↗2008 · PESC record
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