Publications
Patents
[P. 1] R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, L. Horowitz, S. T. Mahbub, J. Zou, N. M. Ellis, N. Miljkovic, "Flexible and Scalable Thermal Test Vehicle Design for Electronics Cooling Solutions," US 63/708,279, provisional patent application, filed October 17, 2024.
Journal Publications
[J. 5] L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Design of a High Performance Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter for Electric Vehicles with Stacked Printed Circuit Boards," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2025.3609699.
[J. 4] Y. Zhu, T. Ge, N. M. Ellis, L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "The Switching Bus Converter: A High-Performance 48-V-to-1-V Architecture With Increased Switched-Capacitor Conversion Ratio," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 8384-8403, July 2024.
[J. 3] Gebrael, T., Li, J., Gamboa, A.R. et al. High-efficiency cooling via the monolithic integration of copper on electronic devices. Nat Electron 5, 394–402 (2022).
[J. 2] Wilson NJ, Ceron S, Horowitz L and Petersen K (2020) Scalable and Robust Fabrication, Operation, and Control of Compliant Modular Robots. Front. Robot. AI 7:44.
[J. 1] Koenig, P.A., Smith, M.L., Horowitz, L.H. et al. Artificial shaking signals in honey bee colonies elicit natural responses. Sci Rep 10, 3746 (2020).
Conference Publications
[C. 23] L. Horowitz, J. Zou and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Design and Optimization of a High-Performance 3D-Stacked Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter for Electric Drivetrains," 2025 IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Knoxville, TN, USA, 2025.
[C. 22] R. S. Bayliss, L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Design and Analysis of a High Step-Down Ratio Capacitively-Isolated Flying Capacitor Multilevel Resonant Converter," 2025 IEEE 26th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Knoxville, TN, USA, 2025.
[C. 21] L. Horowitz, S. T. Mahbub, J. Zou and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "A Flexible and Scalable Thermal Test Vehicle Design for Electronics Cooling Solutions," 2025 IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), Dallas, TX, USA, 2025.
[C. 20] F. Giardine, S. Krishnan, L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Leveraging Variable Frequency Techniques for High Level-Count FCML Inverters for Improved Efficiency and Conducted EMI," 2025 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025.
[C. 19] J. Zou, Y. Zhu, N. M. Ellis, L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "A 48-V-to-0.8-V Gallium Nitride Switching Bus Converter for Processor Vertical Power Delivery with 2.7 mm Thickness and 2145 W/in^3 Power Density," 2025 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025.
[C. 18] L. Horowitz, J. Zou and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Design and Optimization of a High Performance 3D-Stacked Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter for Electric Drivetrains," 2025 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025.
[C. 17] E. Krause, S. Coday, L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "An 840 V-to-120 V Radiation-Tolerant Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter for Space Robotics," 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2024.
[C. 16] L. Horowitz, R. Abramson and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Unified Framework for the Passive Volume Comparison of Power Converter Topologies," 2024 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Lahore, Pakistan, 2024, pp. 1-8.
[C. 15] B. Liao, L. Horowitz, S. T. Mahbub and R. Pilawa-Podgurski, "A Modular Multi-Phase High-Power Resistive Load Bank with Zero-Current Switching Functionality," 2024 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), Urbana, IL, USA, 2024, pp. 1-6. (Best Presentation Award)
[C. 14] L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "A 14-level FCML Inverter for Electric Vehicles with Optimal Capacitors Achieving 175 kW/kg and 380 kW/L Power Density," 2024 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2024, pp. 1009-1013. (Best Presentation Award)
[C. 13] L. Horowitz, N. Brooks, N. M. Ellis and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "The Flying Capacitor LLC Converter: A Hybrid Switched Capacitor Converter with Galvanic Isolation for Large Step-Down Applications," 2023 IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2023, pp. 1-7.
[C. 12] Y. Zhu, T. Ge, N. M. Ellis, L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "A 500-A/48-to-1-V Switching Bus Converter: A Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Voltage Regulator with 94.7% Peak Efficiency and 464-W/in3 Power Density," 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1989-1996. (Best Paper Award)
[C. 11] L. Horowitz, N. M. Ellis and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Decoupling Device for Small Commutation Loop and Improved Switching Performance with Large Power Transistors," 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 2620-2624. (Best Poster Award)
[C. 10] N. Stokowski, S. Coday, L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "A Mechanically Ultra-thin Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter with Embedded Passive Components," 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 2625-2629.
[C. 9] L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "High Power Density Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter for Electric Aircraft with a Stacked PCB Interleaved Hybrid Commutation Loop Design," 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1065-1069.
[C. 8] N. M. Ellis, L. H. Horowitz, R. K. Iyer, N. C. Brooks and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "An Actively Balanced Distributed Regenerative Snubber with Reduced Part Count in Multi-Level Power Converters," 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, USA, 2022, pp. 1-4.
[C. 7] L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "On Decoupling Capacitor Size in GaN-Based Power Converters," 2022 IEEE 23rd Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Tel Aviv, Israel, 2022, pp. 1-5.
[C. 6] L. Horowitz and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Modular Switching Cell Design for High-Performance Flying Capacitor Multilevel Converter," 2022 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Houston, TX, USA, 2022, pp. 342-347.
[C. 5] N. C. Brooks, L. Horowitz, R. Abramson and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "Low-Inductance Asymmetrical Hybrid GaN HEMT Switching Cell Design for the FCML Converter in High Step-Down Applications," 2021 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2021, pp. 9-15.
[C. 4] L. Horowitz, N. Pallo, S. Coday and R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski, "A Method of Partial Inductances to Evaluate and Optimize Switching Cells," 2021 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2021, pp. 1549-1554. (Best Presentation Award)
[C. 3] S. Ceron, Logan Horowitz, N. Wilson, C. Chen, D. Kim, K. Petersen “Towards a Scalable, Self-Reconfigurable Robot with Compliant Modules,” IEEE International Symposium On Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), New Brunswick, 2019.
[C. 2] S. Ceron, N. Wilson, L. Horowitz, and K. Petersen, “Comparative Analysis of Sensors in Rigid and Deformable Modular Robots for Shape Estimation,” IEEE International Symposium On Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), New Brunswick, 2019.
[C. 1] T. Duggan, L. Horowitz, A. Ulug, E. Baker, and K. Petersen, “Inchworm-inspired locomotion in untethered soft robots,” IEEE-RAS Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Seoul, 2019.