B.A. Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande – PB, Brazil, 03/2004
B.A. Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande – PB, Brazil, 03/2005
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande – PB, Brazil, 04/2007
Awards & Honors
IUPUI Prestigious External Award Recognition (PEAR) Recipient, 5/2013
Senior Member of IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 12/2012
Best Paper Award - International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, IEEE - Industrial Electronics Society, 9/2011
Scholarship in Research Productivity of CNPq (The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – Brazilian agency) – Level 2, 4/2011
Selected Publications
E. C. dos Santos Jr., J. H. G. Muniz, E. R. C. da Silva, C. B. Jacobina, "Nested Multilevel Topologies". IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 4058-4068, Aug. 2015., 8/2015
G. A. de A. Carlos, C. B. Jacobina, E. C. dos Santos Jr., E. L. L. Fabricio, N Rocha. "Shunt Active Power Filter with Open-End Winding Transformer and Series Connected Converters". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 51, No 4, pp. 3273-3283, July-Aug. 2015., 8/2015
I. S. Freitas, M. M. Bandeira, F. Salvadori, S. A. da Silva, L. Barros, C. B. Jacobina and, E. C. dos Santos Jr. "A Carrier Based PWM Technique for Capacitor Voltage Balancing of Single-Phase Three-level Neutral-Point-Clamped Converters". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 28, No. 3, March 2015., 3/2015
R. L. de A. Ribeiro, T. Oliveira, R. M. de Sousa, E. C. dos Santos Jr., A. M. N. Lima, "A Robust DC-Link Voltage Control Strategy to Enhance the Performance of Shunt Active Power Filters without Harmonic Detection Schemes". IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, No. 2, Feb. 2015., 2/2015
C. B. Jacobina, N. Rocha, G. A. de A. Carlos, E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Flexible Series/Parallel AC-DC-AC Motor Drive System". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 51, no 1, pp. 259-270, Jan./Feb., 2015., 2/2015
E. C. dos Santos Jr., N. Rocha, C. B. Jacobina, "Suitable Single-phase to Three-phase AC-DC-AC Power Conversion System". IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.30, no.2, pp.860,870, Feb. 2015., 2/2015
Book: Advanced Power Electronics Converters: PWM Converters Processing AC Voltages, ISBN: 978-1-118-88094-4, 384 pages, Wiley-IEEE Press, 11/2014
N. Rocha, C. B. Jacobina, E. C. dos Santos Jr., R. M. B. Cavalcanti, "Parallel Single-Phase Ac-Dc-Ac Shared-leg Converters: Modelling, Control and Analysis". International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol.61, pp. 27-38, Oct. 2014., 10/2014
C. B. Jacobina, N. Rocha, N. S. M. L. Marinus, E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Single-Phase to Three-Phase Dc-Link Converters with Reduced Controlled Switch Count". IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 50, No. 2, March/April, 2014., 4/2014
D. A. Fernandes, F. F. Costa and E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Digital-Scalar PWM Approaches Applied to Four-Leg Voltage-Source Inverters". IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.60, no.5, pp.2022-2030, 2013., 9/2013
E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Dual-Output Dc-Dc Buck Converters with Bidirectional and Unidirectional Characteristics". IET Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 6, Iss. 5, pp. 999–1009, May 2013., 5/2013
E. C. dos Santos Jr. and E. R. C. da Silva. "Power Blocks Geometry Applied to the Building of Power Electronic Converters". IEEE Transactions on Education, vol.56, no.2, pp.191-198, May 2013., 5/2013
E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Configuration 5S: A Bi-directional ac-dc Converter". Brazilian Power Electronics Transactions, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 529-537, 2012., 9/2012
E. C. dos Santos Jr. "Series-Voltage-Action Converter". IET Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.5, no.7, pp.1127-1136, Aug. 2012., 8/2012
E. C. dos Santos Jr., C. B. Jacobina, E. R. C. da Silva and N. Rocha. "Single-phase to Three-phase Power Converters: State of the Art". IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, v. 27, no. 5, pp. 2437-2452, May 2012., 5/2012
Expertise
Power Electronics and Motor Drive Systems
Interests
Power Electronics, Renewable Energy System and Motor Drive Systems.
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