IITKGP
Santanu Kapat, IIT Kharagpur

Santanu Kapat

Ph.D., IIT Kharagpur

Professor

Electrical Engineering

+91-3222-283080

skapat@ee.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FoE&A)

Research Areas

My research areas inlcude
Modeling, analysis, design, and control techniques in DC-DC converters
Digital control architectures and sampling techniques in power management converters - event-based constant on/off-time digital current control techniques in buck, boost, multilevel converters, hysteretic digital control techniques (paper1, paper2, paper3), chattering-free sliding mode control,   Event-based sampling in fixed frequency digital control 
Multimode digital control techniques (paper1, paper2, paper3, paper4)
Modelling, analysis, and design of digitally controlled power management converters - multiphase converters (paper1, paper2, paper3, paper4, paper5), LLC resonant converters (paper1, paper2design for output impedance shaping), digitally controlled DC-DC converters (paper1, paper2, paper3, paper4, paper5, paper6, paper7, paper8), digitally controlled SIMO converters (paper1, paper2, paper3)
Nonlinear analysis of digitally controlled DC-DC converters (paper1, paper2, paper3, paper4)
High performance control and large-signal design in DC-DC converters for ultra-fast transient performance (paper1, paper2, paper3, paper4, paper5, paper6, paper7, paper8, paper9, paper10, paper11, paper12, paper13)
Power management converters and control techniques for dynamic voltage scaling - power converter architectures (paper1, paper2, paper3, paper4) and control techniques for ultra-fast voltage transitions (paper1, paper2, paper3)
Power management converters and control for LED driving (paper1, paper2, paper3)
Power converters and control techniques in 48V datacenters and automotive applications (paper1, paper2, paper3, paper4, paper5, paper6, paper7, paper8)
GaN-based converters and digital/mixed-signal power management integrated circuits (PMICs)
Battery chargers and battery management systems
  • A Tutorial and Review Discussion of Modulation, Control and Tuning of High-Performance DC-DC Converters based on Small-Signal and Large-Signal Approaches by Kapat S., Krein P. IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics vol. 1 339-371 (2020)
  • Constant On/Off-Time Digital Current Control and Design Methods in Three-Level Flying-Capacitor Boost Converters for Fast Transient and Voltage Balancing by Garnayak R., Kapat S., Chakraborty C. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 39 2980-2990 (2024)
  • A hybrid design framework for fast transient and voltage balancing in a three-level flying capacitor boost converter with digital current mode control by Garnayak R., Majumder P. , Kapat S. , Chakraborty C. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 13674-13685 (2023)
  • Discrete-Time Framework for Analysis and Design of Digitally Current-Mode-Controlled Intermediate Bus Architectures for Fast Transient and Stability by Roy R., Kapat S. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics 8 3237-3249 (2020)

Principal Investigator

  • Design and Develop Reconfigurable FPGA-based Digital Control Platform to Drive Servo Actuator Electronics Aeronautical Development Establishment, DRDO
  • High Density Low Component Profile Power Factor Corrector Infineon Technologies India Pvt Ltd
  • High frequency fully integrated step-down power management converter STMicroelectronics Pvt. Ltd
  • Integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR) for High-power GPU/CPU Systems C2I SEMICONDUCTORS PRIVATE LIMITED
  • Modular DC Power Conversion System and Digital Control for UAV Alternator AERONAUTICAL DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT
  • Texas Instruments (TI) Scholar Program Texas Instruments

Ph. D. Students

Anirban Nanda

Area of Research: Architectures, Modulation and Digital Control of Multi-Output DC-DC Converters for Electric Vehicles

Arindam Maulik

Area of Research: Digitally Controlled Power Management Integrated Circuit

Calvin Paul Joseph

Area of Research: Digital Control of Bidirectional AC/DC Power Converters

Dipayan Chatterjee

Area of Research: Battery chargers and power management system

Faraz Ahmad

Area of Research: Control of Power Converters for DC Microgrid Applications

Golla Teja

Area of Research: Digital and Nonlinear Control of Multi-phase Switched Mode Power Converters

Mrinmay Bhowmik

Area of Research: Power electronics and energy storage

Pramit Banerjee

Area of Research: Power Management Integrated Circuits

Prantik Majumder

Area of Research: Digital control in high frequency AC/DC converters

Ruturaj Garnayak

Area of Research: Solar Energy Systems