Nihal Kularatna

2.0k total citations
150 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Nihal Kularatna is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Nihal Kularatna has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 96 papers in Automotive Engineering and 51 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Nihal Kularatna's work include Advanced Battery Technologies Research (90 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (47 papers) and Advanced DC-DC Converters (41 papers). Nihal Kularatna is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Technologies Research (90 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (47 papers) and Advanced DC-DC Converters (41 papers). Nihal Kularatna collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Australia. Nihal Kularatna's co-authors include D. Alistair Steyn‐Ross, B. H. Sudantha, Kosala Gunawardane, Duleepa J. Thrimawithana, Udaya K. Madawala, W. Howell Round, Alistair Steyn‐Ross, Tek Tjing Lie, Bruce W. Melville and Dulsha Kularatna-Abeywardana and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Nihal Kularatna

143 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers

Nihal Kularatna
Binyu Xiong China
Yujiao Zhang China
Emmanuel Agamloh United States
Xiaopeng Huang China
Dongxu Guo China
Wenting Liu China
P.K. Sen United States
A. Ortiz Spain
Fabian Müller United States
Tian Li China
Binyu Xiong China
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All Works

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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2024). Supercapacitor Assisted Multilevel Inverter Topology for Off-Grid Renewable Energy Systems. 1800–1805. 1 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2024). Preliminary experiments quantifying the arcing process in a DC circuit breaker development project. Research Commons (University of Waikato). 2986–2993. 1 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2023). Magnetic Design Aspects of Coupled-Inductor Topologies for Transient Suppression. Electronics. 12(1). 246–246. 2 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2023). Plasma Absorption Techniques in Direct Current Circuit Breakers. 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal. (2023). Power Conditioning and Power Protection for Electronic Systems. Energies. 16(6). 2671–2671.
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Kularatna-Abeywardana, Dulsha & Nihal Kularatna. (2023). Supercapacitor energy storage for battery-less, greener IoT networks. ResearchSpace (University of Auckland). 160–163. 1 indexed citations
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Gunawardane, Kosala, et al.. (2023). PEM Fuel Cell Equivalent Circuit Estimation Using Current Switching Techniques. 1–7. 2 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2023). Electrical Performance of Current Commercial Supercapacitors and Their Future Applications. Electronics. 12(11). 2465–2465. 23 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2022). Permeance Based Design and Analysis of Supercapacitor Assisted Surge Absorber for Magnetic Component Selection. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 70(4). 3593–3603. 8 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2022). Importance of Leakage Magnetic Field and Fringing Flux in Surge Protector Design. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 59(1). 289–299. 2 indexed citations
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Gunawardane, Kosala, et al.. (2021). Extending the Input Voltage Range of Solar PV Inverters with Supercapacitor Energy Circulation. Electronics. 10(1). 88–88. 12 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2020). Permeance based model for the coupled-inductor utilized in the supercapacitor assisted surge absorber (SCASA) and its experimental validation. University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury). 267–272. 9 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal, et al.. (2019). Supercapacitor Assisted LED lighting (SCALED) for DC-micro grids. 1–6. 7 indexed citations
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Kularatna, Nihal. (1998). Power electronics design handbook : low-power components and applications. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 31 indexed citations

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