Presently I am working on the application of Power Electronic converter for various application which includes but are not limited to:
(A) solar photovoltaic (PV) systems: (a) design of solar PV based standalone/off-grid systems for deployment in rural areas, b) transformer-less inverter design for grid connected solar PV systems, c) distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) schemes for medium/large scale solar plants, d) PV based UPS schemes for semi-urban areas.
(B) Electric Vehicle: power converter and motor design
(C) multi-functional, decentralized inverter schemes for grid integration of renewable energy sources,
(D) design of integrated converter topologies for reneables, load emulators, etc.

I wish to extend my work in the following areas: (a) study of micro-grid: dc, ac and hybrid, (b) converter design Wide band-gap devices for various application viz. air borne and marine applications.

All Publications

Dual PV Module Fed Modified Boost Converter based On-board Battery Charger for E-rickshaws by Samanta A. K., Prasant V. G., Samaddar N. , Debnath D. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (Dec 2025) - (Accepted/In-Press)
A New Switching Strategy for Improving Efficiency and Thermal Distribution of a Three-Port Converter for Solar DC Stand-alone System by S N., Debnath D. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs 69 1527-1531 (2022)
Series Balancing Capacitor Integrated String of PV Modules Connected to DC Grid for BIPV Applications by Samaddar N., Prasant V. G., Debnath D. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (Dec 2025) 14 2383-2393 (2026)
A High-Frequency Transformer Integrated Three-Port Converter-based Stand-Alone Home Energy System by Sunny A. C., Debnath D. , Muttaqi K. ., Sutanto D. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics 6 743-753 (2025)
Derivation Methodology of TPCs With All Bidirectional Inductively Interfaced Ports Suitable for Solar Photovoltaic Applications by S N., Sunny A. C., Debnath D. , Chakraborty C. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS 71 12425-12435 (2024)
A Novel Four-Port Converter With All Bi-Directional Ports Having Common Ground for Photo-Voltaic Hybrid Energy Storage DC System by Surulivel N., Sunny A. C., Dev D. , Samanta A. K., Debnath D. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs 71 4571-4575 (2024)
Advanced Hybrid Suspension System for Electric Vehicles with Dual Rear Hub Motors (Indian Patent filed) by Mishra P., Sengupta S. , Debnath D. , Thombare S. , Vanjani D. - (2024)
A Novel Low Device Count Four-Port Converter based Solar-fed Off-grid System for Catering Household Hybrid ac/dc Loads by Sunny A. C., Debnath D. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 38 2658-2667 (2022)
Novel Bi-directional Four-Port DC-DC Converter suitable for Bipolar DC Solar Household Integration by S N., Debnath D. , Chakraborty C. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 38 9033-9045 (2023)
A Novel Single Coupled-Inductor Boost TPC with Two Inductively Interfaced Ports suitable for Renewable Energy Integration (Accepted for Publication) by S N., Debnath D. , Chakraborty C. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 70 4705-4715 (2023)

Completed Projects

Principal Investigator

Sustainable Energy System for Achieving Novel Carbon Neutral Energy Communities (Sustenance) Department of Science and Technology
Technology transfer of Front-End Rectifier National Power Research Laboratory

Co-Principal Investigator

Centre of Excellence on Energy Aware Urban Infrastructure Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Development of high-power Grid-friendly Conductive and Static Wireless Chargers for Electric Vehicles Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
Upgradation of Automatic Tide Generation (ATG) System at Syamaprasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMPK) SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE PORT,KOLKATA

Alumni members

Ph. D. Students

Deepak Verma

Area of Research: Power Electronic Converter for Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Sanam Agnihotri

Area of Research: Power Electronics for Solar PV systems

Sushil Kumar Mishra

Area of Research: Power Electronic interface design and development for Integration of renewables and energy storage to high power EV charging station

V Gouri Prasant

Area of Research: Power converter topologies and control for solar PV applications

MS Students

Arpan Kumar Samanta

Area of Research: Electric Rickshaw Power Train

Neil Samaddar

Area of Research: Power Electronic converter for Building Integrated PV systems