Congratulations to Profs. Tom Jahns and Bulent Sarlioglu for winning a $1,031,315 award to develop Wide-Band-Gap-enabled integrated motor drives (IMDs) using current-source inverters (CSIs) from the ARPA-E CIRCUITS (Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies and Semiconductors) program!! They note that, “Recent advances in both SiC and GaN wide-bandgap semiconductor devices make these power switches well-suited for the selected CSI topology that the team plans to integrate into high-efficiency electric motors with spinning permanent magnets. If successful, the new IMDs will be capable of producing significant energy savings in a wide variety of industrial, commercial, and residential applications ranging from air conditioners to pumps and compressors.”
Read the full article at: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=news-item/department-energy-announces-21-new-projects-develop-high-performance-circuits-industrial