Graduate student Sahana Krishnan has won a Best Poster Award at the 2025 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo & Electric Aircrat Technologies Symposium (ITEC) for her work “Design and Implementation of a GaN-Based, Cascaded Isolated DC-DC Converter for Satellite Applications.” Sahana’s innovative research, completed with coauthors Francesca Giardine and Rose Abramson, validates a 150 W, 92% efficient cascaded boost and dual-active bridge power stage for lightweight CubeSat and SmallSat satellite systems, demonstrating the utility of this topology in the extreme environment of space. Sahana’s presentation was one of just three winning selections out of more than 200 posters presented at ITEC 2025.
This work can be read at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC63604.2025.11097988