Seth R. Sanders

Professor

Research Areas

• Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
• Energy (ENE)
• Integrated Circuits (INC)
• Power and electronics systems

Research Centers

• Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Biography

He received the S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics and the S.M. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1981, 1985, and 1989, respectively. He was a Design Engineer at the Honeywell Test Instruments Division, Denver, CO. Since 1989, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, where he is presently Professor. Dr. Sanders received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993 and Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He has served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computers in Power Electronics, and as a Member-At-Large of the IEEE PELS Adcom.

Selected Publications

• J. Xiao, A. Peterchev, J. Zhang, and S. R. Sanders, "A 4-mu A quiescent-current dual-mode digitally controlled buck converter IC for cellular phone applications," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 2342-2348, Dec. 2004.
• P. Tsao, M. Senesky, and S. R. Sanders, "An integrated flywheel energy storage system with homopolar inductor motor/generator and high-frequency drive," IEEE Trans. Industry Applications, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1710-1725, Nov. 2003.
• A. V. Peterchev and S. R. Sanders, "Quantization resolution and limit cycling in digitally controlled PWM converters," IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol. 18, no. 1, pt. 2, pp. 301, Jan. 2003.
• L. Daniel, C. R. Sullivan, and S. R. Sanders, "Design of microfabricated inductors," IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 709-723, July 1999.
• S. R. Sanders, J. M. Noworolski, X. Z. Liu, and G. C. Verghese, "Generalized averaging method for power conversion circuits," IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 251-259, April 1991.