REAPER Lab congratulates Mr. Bo Tian for successfully defending his MS thesis, “A Single-phase Rectifier With Ripple-power Decoupling and Application to LED Lighting.” Mr. Tian’s research studied a generalized approach to double-frequency power ripple suppression suitable for solid state lighting (LED) rectifiers. Existing commercialized technologies uses circuitry and compenent that have well-known wear-out and failure modes that limit these products from achiving the service life of the LED semiconductor chip. Mr. Tian’s contributions are expected to enable solid state lighting to offer vastly superior lifetime and flicker performance while at the same time fitting to the form-factor of conventional technologies to support retrofit applications for LED lighting.

Dr. Balog has been elected to serve as a Member-at-Large of the Administrative Committee (ADCOM) of the IEEE Power Electronics Society.