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2023

El-Wakeel, Abdelrahman and McNeill, Neville and Pena Alzola, Rafael and Galla, Gowtham and Surapaneni, Ravi and Ybanez, Ludovic and Zhang, Min and Yuan, Weijia (2023) Characterizing semiconductor devices for all-electric aircraft. IEEE Access, 11. pp. 73490-73504. ISSN 2169-3536

McNeill, Neville and Vozikis, Dimitrios and Peña-Alzola, Rafael and Wang, Shuren and Pollock, Richard and Holliday, Derrick and Williams, Barry W. (2023) Gate driver circuit with all-magnetic isolation for cascode-connected SiC JFETs in a three-level T-type bridge-leg. Energies, 16 (3). 1226. ISSN 1996-1073

2022

Abdel-Aziz, Ali and Macrae, Euan and McNeill, Neville and Ahmed, Khaled and Massoud, Ahmed and Williams, Barry (2022) A new torque ripple minimization approach for switched reluctance drives. In: 1st IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (ONCON) 2022, 2022-12-09 - 2022-12-11, Online.

Elwakeel, Abdelrahman and McNeill, Neville and Peña-Alzola, Rafael and Zhang, Min and Yuan, Weijia (2022) Cryogenic DC/DC converter for superconducting magnet applications. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 32 (6). 0601005. ISSN 1051-8223

El-Wakeel, A. and Feng, Z. and McNeill, N. and Alzola, R. P. and Zhang, M. and Yuan, W.; (2022) Comparison of phase-leg circuits for cryogenic operation in the all-electric aircraft. In: 11th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2022). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 618-624. ISBN 9781839537189

Wang, S. and Pollock, R. and McNeill, N. and Holliday, D. and Ahmed, K. and Williams, B.; (2022) Realising SiC MOSFET switching speed control based on a novel series variable-resistance gate driver. In: 11th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2022). IET, Stevenage, Herts, pp. 588-592. ISBN 9781839537189

McNeill, Neville and Hopkins, Andrew and Williams, Barry W. (2022) Gate driver power supply arrangement for cascode-connected super-junction MOSFETs in a bridge-leg. Electronics Letters, 58 (25). pp. 988-990. ISSN 0013-5194

2021

Elwakeel, Abdelrahman and Feng, Zhengyang and Mcneill, Neville and Zhang, Min and Williams, Barry and Yuan, Weijia (2021) Study of power devices for use in phase-leg at cryogenic temperature. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 31 (5). ISSN 1051-8223

Weng, Fangjing and Zhang, Min and Elwakeel, Abdelrahman and Lan, Tian and McNeill, Neville and Yuan, Weijia (2021) Transient test and AC loss study of a cryogenic propulsion unit for all electric aircraft. IEEE Access, 9. pp. 59628-59636. ISSN 2169-3536

2020

Liu, Dawei and Dymond, Harry C. P. and Hollis, Simon and Wang, Jianjing and Mcneill, Neville and Pamunuwa, Dinesh and Stark, Bernard H. (2020) Full custom design of an arbitrary waveform gate driver with 10 GHz waypoint rates for GaN FETs. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. ISSN 0885-8993

Feng, Zhengyang and McNeill, Neville and Williams, Barry; (2020) Control of incoming drain currents drawn by super-junction MOSFETs in voltage source bridge-legs. In: 2020 9th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Application (ICRERA). IEEE, GBR, pp. 93-100. ISBN 978-1-7281-7369-6

McNeill, Neville and Jin, Bosen and Yuan, Xibo and Laird, Ian (2020) Evaluation of the off-state base-emitter voltage requirement of the SiC BJT with a regenerative proportional base driver circuit and their application in an inverter. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67 (9). pp. 7179-7189. ISSN 0278-0046

2019

Pollock, Richard C. and McNeill, Neville and Holliday, Derrick and Williams, Barry W. (2019) DC–DC converter with a high step-down ratio for water desalination applications. The Journal of Engineering, 2019 (17). 4545 – 4549. ISSN 2051-3305

Feng, Zhengyang and McNeill, Neville and Williams, Barry (2019) A high-efficiency super-junction MOSFET based inverter-leg configuration using a dual-mode switching technique. In: 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2019-03-17 - 2019-03-21, Anaheim Convention Center 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA 92802.

2018

McNeill, N. and Stark, B.H. and Finney, S.J. and Holliday, D. and Dymond, H. (2018) Efficient base driver circuit for silicon carbide bipolar junction transistors. Electronics Letters, 54 (25). pp. 1450-1452. ISSN 0013-5194

Hopkins, Andrew N. and Proynov, Plamen and McNeill, Neville and Stark, Bernard H. and Mellor, Philip H. (2018) Achieving efficiencies exceeding 99% in a super-junction 5kW DC-DC converter power stage through the use of an energy recovery snubber and dead time optimization. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 33 (9). pp. 7510-7520. ISSN 0885-8993

Roscoe, Nina M. and Holliday, Derrick and McNeill, Neville and Finney, Stephen J. (2018) LV converters : improving efficiency and EMI using Si MOSFET MMC and experimentally exploring slowed switching. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. ISSN 2168-6777

Dymond, Harry C.P. and Wang, Jianjing and Liu, Dawei and Dalton, Jeremy J.O. and McNeill, Neville and Pamunuwa, Dinesh and Hollis, Simon J. and Stark, Bernard H. (2018) A 6.7-GHz active gate driver for GaN FETs to combat overshoot, ringing, and EMI. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 33 (1). pp. 581-594. ISSN 0885-8993

2017

Charalambous, Apollo and Yuan, Xibo and McNeill, Neville (2017) High-frequency EMI attenuation at source with the auxiliary commutated pole inverter. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. ISSN 0885-8993

Hopkins, Andrew and McNeill, Neville and Drury, William D. and Atkins, Andrew; (2017) Deploying SiC BJTs in an 800-V switched-mode power supply for hybrid & electric vehicles. In: 2017 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1431-1438. ISBN 9781509014125

2016

Liu, Dawei and Hollis, Simon J. and Dymond, Harry C. P. and McNeill, Neville and Stark, Bernard H. (2016) Design of 370-ps delay floating voltage level shifters with 30 V/ns power supply slew tolerance. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 63 (7). pp. 688-692. ISSN 1558-3791

Kitson, J. and McNeill, N. (2016) Circuit for clamping bridge over-voltages in a voltage-fed quasi Z-source converter. Electronics Letters, 52 (7). pp. 551-553. ISSN 0013-5194

McNeill, Neville and Yuan, Xibo and Anthony, Philip (2016) High-efficiency NPC multilevel converter using super-junction MOSFETs. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 63 (1). pp. 25-37. ISSN 0278-0046

2014

Proynov, Plamen and Stark, Bernard and McNeill, Neville (2014) Low-power methods of power sensing and frequency detection for wideband vibration energy harvesting. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 557 (1). 012127. ISSN 1742-6588

Anthony, Philip and McNeill, Neville and Holliday, Derrick (2014) High-speed resonant gate driver with controlled peak gate voltage for silicon carbide MOSFETs. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 50 (1). pp. 573-583. ISSN 0093-9994

2012

Anthony, Philip and McNeill, Neville and Holliday, Derrick; (2012) High-speed resonant gate driver with controlled peak gate voltage for silicon carbide MOSFETs. In: 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., pp. 2961-2968. ISBN 978-1-4673-0802-1

Anthony, Philip and McNeill, Neville and Holliday, Derrick (2012) A first approach to a design method for resonant gate driver architectures. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 27 (8). 3855 - 3868. ISSN 0885-8993

2011

Oswald, Niall and Stark, Bernard and McNeill, Neville and Holliday, Derrick and McNeill, Neville; (2011) High-bandwidth, high-fidelity in-circuit measurement of power electronic switching waveforms for EMI generation analysis. In: 2011 IEEE energy conversion congress and exposition (ECCE). IEEE, USA, pp. 3886-3893. ISBN 9781457705410

McNeill, Neville and Holliday, Derrick and Mellor, Philip; (2011) Half-bridge power device gate driver circuit with isolation using integrated magnetic component and carrier signal phase switching. In: Proceedings of the 2011-14th european conference on power electronics and applications (EPE 2011). IEEE, GBR, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781612841670

2008

McNeill, Neville and Holliday, Derrick and Mellor, Philip and McNeill, Neville (2008) Alleviating common-mode interference effects in phase-switched power device gate driver circuit. Electronics Letters, 44 (14). pp. 880-881. ISSN 0013-5194

McNeill, Neville and Gupta, Naren and Burrow, Stephen and Holliday, Derrick and Mellor, Philip (2008) Application of reset voltage feedback for droop minimisation in the unidirectional current pulse transformer. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 23 (2). pp. 591-599. ISSN 0885-8993