Slobodan Ćuk

Slobodan Ćuk is a Serbian-American author, inventor, business owner, electrical engineer, and professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The Ćuk switched-mode DC-to-DC voltage converter is named after him.

Biography For over 20 years, he was a full-time Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology until January 1, 2000.

In 1979, Slobodan founded TESLAco, located in Laguna Niguel, California. It had a charter to apply basic research results developed at Caltech for practical commercial and military designs. filed in 2010, "Step-down converter having a resonant inductor, a resonant capacitor and a hybrid transformer" (Ćuk-Buck2 converter) US Patent 4257087, filed in 1979, "DC-to-DC switching converter with zero input and output current ripple and integrated magnetics circuits" (Ćuk converter)

Patents (Coauthor) US Patent 7778046, filed in 2008, "Voltage step-up switching DC-to-DC converter" US Patent 5442539, filed in 1992, "Ćuk DC-to-DC switching converter with input current shaping for unity power factor operation" US Patent 4274133, filed in 1979, "DC-to-DC Converter having reduced ripple without need for adjustments" (Ćuk converter) US Patent 4184197, filed in 1977, "DC-to-DC switching converter" (Ćuk converter)

Papers Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Switching Converters; PhD thesis at California Institute of Technology; November 1976

Papers (Coauthor) A General Unified Approach to Modelling Switching-Converter Power Stages; IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference; June 8, 1976

Magazine articles "Hybrid-Switching Step-down Converter with Hybrid Transformer"; Power Electronics; May 2011 (Ćuk-Buck2 converter) "Single-Stage Isolated Bridgeless PFC Converter Achieves 98% Efficiency"; Power Electronics; November 2010