Advances in SiC and GaN Grid Applications to Support EV and Renewable Energy
Organizers
Dr. Victor Veliadis, Executive Director and CTO of PowerAmerica
Abstract
The advances in SiC and GaN technology addressed in this session include requirements for electric vehicles, renewable energy, power grid resilience, and other applications. The session will include a comparison of these two types of wide bandgap semiconductor technologies, and consideration of the advantages of each for high and lower power electronics, their respective efficiency gains and reduction in energy consumption in different applications. Module design and architectures needed to optimize results will also be explained.
Short Bio of Organizers
Dr. Victor Veliadis is Executive Director and CTO of PowerAmerica, which is a U.S. Department of Energy wide bandgap power electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Dr. Veliadis manages a budget in excess of $30 million per year that he strategically allocates to over 35 industrial, University, and National-Laboratory projects, to catalyze WBG power electronics manufacturing, work-force development, job creation, and energy savings.
Dr. Veliadis has given over 60 invited presentations/tutorials, and keynotes at major conferences in India, Korea, China, Europe and the U.S. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Veliadis has 26 issued U.S. patents, 6 book chapters, and over 120 peer-reviewed technical publications to his credit. He is also Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Veliadis received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1995. Prior to taking an executive position at Power America in 2016, Dr. Veliadis spent 21 years in the semiconductor industry where his work included design, fabrication, and testing of 1-12 kV SiC SITs, JFETs, MOSFETs, Thyristors, and JBS and PiN diodes, as well as financial and operations management of acommercial foundry.
Speakers and presentations
1. Francois Hebert, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Co-Existence of GaN & SiC: Present and Future
2. Tim McDonald, Infineon Technologies
The high and low (power) of SiC and GaN transistor applications
3. Rick Eddins, GE Aviation
Advances in Applications of SiC and GaN Technology
4. Larry Spaziani, GaN Systems
Advances in GaN to Support EV and Renewable Energy
5. Brent McDonald, Texas Instruments
Design of a 6.6 kW Bidirectional On-Board Charger Using GaN with Integrated Driver, Protection and Temperature Reporting