integrated Power Electronics and Energy-Efficient Systems Lab

Latest News

• 10/2025 – We had a really fun beach party with lots of food, sand, sunshine, frisbee, slammo, soccer, surfing, giant UNO, beautiful sky, and fantastic companions.
  • See our photo page to see and feel a bit of the fun we had! Oh, don’t miss the pyramid! 🙂
• 10/2025 – Saket and Raf’s paper “A Triple-Path 12/24V-to-1V GaN-Based Hybrid DC-DC Converter” has been accepted for a Lecture presentation at the 2026 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2026)
  • Congratulations, Saket and Raf!
• 09/2025 – Dongha Lee joins our group from Samsung Electronics and Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. Welcome, Dongha!
• 07-08/2025 – All group members have very busy summer at UCSD with a lot of active research, PCB soldering, experiments, and paper writing. Stay tune for very interesting publications soon!
• 06/2025 – We have a great time time fighting aliens and droids on a spaceship at San Diego VR, and dinner at Siam Nara for the summer party. See our photos!
• 06/2025 – Eamon is awarded the Best Undergraduate Student Research Award of the UCSD ECE Department for his speedy, important, and significant contributions to the heterogeneously integrated converter for high-performance power delivery, led by Saket! The chip will be tested by the end of the year.
  • Congratulations, Eamon! Very well-deserved!

Welcome to iPower3Es

Research Mission

Our research mission is to address challenges in co-optimizing efficiency and size with performance in different electronic systems and applications, including:

• High-performance computing and data centers
• Mobile and automotive devices
• Robots: futuristic ones
• Communication systems
• DC-houses and DC-buildings
• Low-power biomedical implants
• Internet of Things (IoTs)

Team

We are always looking for good team members. Outstanding and self-motivated students interested in joining the iPower3Es group are recommended to contact Prof. Le directly.

Our team combines individuals who love what we are doing for future energy-efficient electronics systems. We strongly support diversity in our group, department, and school where creativity is fostered together with a strong work ethic. And also very importantly, we have fun.