The following paper has been accepted for presentation at the 2017 IEEE 5th Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Applications, 2017. The conference will take place in Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort, Albuquerque, NM USA…
The following paper was accepted for publication in a special edition of IOP Semiconductor Science and Technology, special issue on Silicon Epitaxy and Silicon Heterostructures. A. Arvanitopoulos, N. Lophitis, K. N. Gyftakis, S. Perkins, and…
This nice video by the US energy department explains in plain english the possible impact of wide bandgap semiconductors on our society. It dates 2014 but it is as current as ever.
Today we had the Power Electronics UK (http://www.power-electronics.org.uk/) relaunch event. Power Electronics UK is a not-for-profit membership organisation which aims to make UK a leader in the area of Power Electronics. With this re-launch, Power…
There are 65 million cars made every year, in 2050 all of them will be electric or hybrid electric. Legislation is driving the emissions allowed from every car down. That will require the electrification of…
Power Electronics: The Rise Of The Wide Bandgap Semiconductors. Samuel Perkins and Anastasios Arvanitopoulos Power Electronics and Trends – Power Electronics is the discipline of controlling, converting and conditioning electrical power using power solid state electronic…
MASTER OF RESEARCH ON RELIABLE AND COMPACT HIGH PERFORMANCE POWER ELECTRONICS IN ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLES THROUGH POWER SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING The focus of the project will be to design devices that mitigate from issues that cause…