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GitHub用于评估功率转换稿件是否符合IEEE TPEL期刊要求，提供选题定位、硬件验证标准、范围界定及拒稿预判，辅助作者优化投稿策略。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定TPEL并需评估匹配度
将具体设计重构为通用贡献
在TPEL与TIE间选择投稿 venue
查询硬件验证与拒稿规则
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ieee-transactions-on-power-electronics -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "ieee-transactions-on-power-electronics",
"description": "Use when targeting IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) or deciding whether a power-conversion manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the hardware-validation bar, the converter-and-control scope, the TPEL-vs-TIE routing, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (ieee-transactions-on-power-electronics)
Journal positioning
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) is the leading archival venue for power conversion: converter and inverter topologies, motor drives, control of power-electronic systems, magnetics and passive components, wide-bandgap devices in circuits, and power-electronics-enabled energy systems. The defining expectation is a concrete power-conversion advance backed by experimental validation — a topology, modulation, or control method whose benefit (efficiency, power density, reliability, dynamic response) is demonstrated on hardware, not only in simulation. Simulation-only proposals and minor topology permutations without measured benefit are a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics author information and submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names TPEL for a converter, inverter, drive, or power-electronic-control manuscript and wants a fit/framing check.
- A design must be re-framed from "we built a converter" into a generalizable power-conversion contribution with measured, benchmarked benefit.
- The author is choosing between TPEL and
ieee-transactions-on-industrial-electronics(broader industrial electronics) or an energy-systems venue. - The author needs the hardware-validation bar and desk-reject heuristics specific to power electronics.
Scope & topic fit
- Converter and inverter topologies: DC-DC, DC-AC, AC-DC, multilevel, resonant, and soft-switching converters with a clear conversion advantage.
- Modulation and control of power-electronic systems: current/voltage control, model predictive control, stability of grid-tied and standalone converters.
- Motor drives and electric-machine control from the power-electronics side: drive topologies, modulation, and torque/efficiency performance.
- Wide-bandgap (SiC/GaN) device application in converters, gate drives, packaging, and thermal management with measured impact.
- Magnetics, passive components, EMI, and reliability of power-electronic converters; power-electronics interfaces for renewables, storage, and transportation.
Method & evidence bar
- The contribution is a power-conversion method with experimental validation — a hardware prototype with measured efficiency, power density, thermal, dynamic, or reliability results, typically expected at this venue.
- Simulation establishes design and operating principles but generally does not substitute for measurement; the absence of any hardware result is a common weakness.
- Efficiency and performance must be benchmarked against the relevant state-of-the-art topology/control under comparable conditions, with operating points and loss breakdowns reported.
- Claims (e.g., higher efficiency, lower EMI, better dynamics) must be supported by instrumented measurements with stated test conditions, component ratings, and control parameters.
- The contribution must generalize beyond one built unit: the design principle, trade-offs, and applicable operating range should be made explicit.
Structure & house style
- IEEE format; TPEL publishes full Papers and shorter Letters — match scope to the article type and re-check current definitions and limits on the live guide.
- The introduction motivates the conversion problem and positions against prior topologies/control; the analysis derives the operating principle before the experiment validates it.
- Figures are central and quantitative: schematics, modulation/control diagrams, measured waveforms, efficiency/loss curves, thermal images, and prototype photos.
- Hardware specifications (devices, magnetics, switching frequency, power level) must be reported in enough detail to reproduce the result.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the IEEE Author Center anchors, then cite the current Transactions on Power Electronics page you checked. - Search the live site for "IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics information for authors" and follow the current submission-system version.
- Re-check article types (Paper vs. Letter), length/overlength policy, and the IEEE template.
- Confirm expectations for experimental validation, measured-data reporting, and any reproducibility requirements.
- Re-check ORCID, competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure requirements, and IEEE open-access options.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The contribution is a generalizable power-conversion advance, not a one-off build or a minor topology permutation.
- A hardware prototype provides measured efficiency/dynamic/thermal/reliability results, not simulation only.
- Performance is benchmarked against the relevant state-of-the-art topology/control under comparable conditions.
- Loss breakdowns, operating points, and test conditions are reported.
- Component ratings, switching frequency, and control parameters are detailed enough to reproduce.
- Article type (Paper vs. Letter) and length fit current limits.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Simulation-only converter/control proposal with no experimental validation.
- A minor topology permutation with no measured efficiency/performance benefit over existing designs.
- Efficiency claims with no loss breakdown, no benchmark, or under non-comparable test conditions.
- Results from a single built unit with no generalizable design principle or trade-off analysis.
- Application/integration paper where power electronics is incidental and no converter-level advance is shown.
Re-routing decision
- Broader industrial-electronics, drives, or industrial-systems emphasis →
ieee-transactions-on-industrial-electronics. - Grid/system-level integration rather than the converter →
ieee-transactions-on-power-systems. - Energy-system performance is the primary narrative →
applied-energy. - Battery/storage-cell or device materials focus →
journal-of-power-sources/energy-storage-materials. - Broad tutorial/survey of a power-electronics area →
proceedings-of-the-ieee.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest power-electronics subtopics>
[Conversion advance] <the topology/control idea and the metric it improves>
[Hardware validation] <prototype + measured results present? benchmarked?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Article type] Paper / Letter
[Official items to re-check] <article type / length / experimental-validation / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
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