The technical advances in silicon carbide technology open opportunities for the development of high-performance power electronics at competitive cost. This will be essential to meet the demands on compact low-loss power drives for the future electric vehicle and other applications.
The workshop is for scientists, engineers and persons in management positions who want to be updated on and discuss the latest developments in the field of silicon carbide power electronics and potential applications. Presentations will be given by several internationally recognized experts with special focus on components, modules and system issues.
The workshop is organised by KTH, Acreo and TranSiC under auspices of the European Power Electronics and Drives Association (EPE).
Date: 31 of March 2009 , 9:00 – 17:00
Location: Electrum, Kista, Sweden Maps and communication (Same building as Acreo)
Registration until 24 of March on this page ( www.acreo.se/SiCseminar-090331 )
For any questions contact Bosse Hammarlund or Christian Vieider (+46 8 6327845).
Programme:
| 09.00 | REGISTRATION AND COFFEE | |
| 09.30 | Welcome – Prof Hans-Peter Nee | |
| 09.45 | System and Modules – Hans-Peter Nee | |
| * | Power device packaging and reliability, Prof Josef Lutz, Univ of Chemnitz |
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| * | Challenges for high temperature applications, Prof Mark Johnson, Nottingham University |
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| * | 100ns super cascode high power switch module, Prof Johann Kolar, ETH Zurich |
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| * | High-temperature intelligent multi-chip SiC modules for hybrid electric vehicles, Hans-Peter Nee, KTH & Mietek Bakowski, Acreo |
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| 11.45 | LUNCH | |
| 12.45 | Components and Material – Bo Hammarlund | |
| * | The performance advantages of bipolar junction transistors, Bruce Carsten |
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| * | Bipolar junction transistors for power electronics applications, Martin Domeij, KTH/TranSiC |
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| * | Towards zero defect SiC/Si02 interfaces, Prof Phil Mawby, Warwick University |
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| * | High quality SiC material development, Peder Bergman Linköping University |
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| 14.45 | COFFEE | |
| 15.30 | Industrial Applications – Mietek Bakowski | |
| * | What do we expect from SiC in our applications, Dr. Ola Aglén, ACTIA Nordic AB, Thord Nilson, Danaher Motion Stockholm AB, Mats Authén, Thomas Lundström Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB |
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| * | Overview of the industrial oriented SiC R&D activities in Sweden, Adolf Schöner, Acreo |
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| 16.30 | Discussion and Summary | |
Speaker's Profiles:
Bruce Carsten has 37 years of experience in the switch-mode field, with over 50 published papers and twelve patents. With 15 years of production design experience ranging from 100 mW to 10 KW. Since 1995 Bruce has presented over 100 seminars in Canada, Spain, Germany, England, Ireland, Scotland, Hong Kong, Singapore, and 14 states in the US.
His practice-oriented design seminars emphasize an intuitive understanding of the phenomena involved, include many rules-of-thumb, and keep the pragmatic needs of the harried design engineer in mind.
Mark Johnson is Professor of Advanced Power Conversion School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering.
From 1998 to 2001 he managed the UK national programme on Silicon Carbide electronics and in 2000 he became Reader of Power Electronics at the University of Newcastle. In 2003, Professor Johnson was appointed as Rolls-Royce/RAEng Research Professor of Power Electronic Systems at the University of Sheffield and in 2006 he was appointed to a personal chair at the University of Nottingham, where he leads research into power semiconductor devices, power device packaging, reliability, thermal management, power module technologies, and power electronic applications.
Josef Lutz is Professor of Power Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility at TU Chemnitz.
Josef Lutz studied physics at the University of Stuttgart. Since 1983 he was with Semikron Elektronik in Nürnberg. Initially, the focus of his work was on development of GTOs, and later the development of fast diodes. He introduced the Controlled Axial Lifetime (CAL) diode, and holds a great number of patents in the field of fast diodes. In 1999 he received his PhD degree from the University of Ilmenau and since 2001 he holds a chair in Power Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility at Technical University in Chemnitz.
Professor PA Mawby BSc. PhD (Leeds) C.Eng. FIET SMIEEE FinstP Chair of Power Electronic, Applications and Technology in Energy Research, Electrical and Electronics Division, School of Engineering, University of Warwick.
The Power Electronic Applications and Technology in Energy Research, PEATER group was founded in 2005 by Professor Philip Mawby, to establish a world-class centre for research into power electronics, power semiconductor devices and applications in power systems and power conversion.
The centre carries out work in electrical energy conversion, from the very small power (mW) levels to very high power levels (MW). This technology centres on the developments in semiconductor switching devices. The developments in MOSFET and IGBT technologies have paved the way for new applications such as Hybrid vehicles, Electric Aircraft, Electric Ship propulsion, Wind Turbines as well as the revolution in mobile phone and computing devices, were energy management is critical to all these applications.
More about P A Mawby and PEATER
Johann W. Kolar
Chair of Power Electronics and Electrometrology ETL H 22 Physikstrasse 3 8092 Zürich
Johann W. Kolar has been Associate Professor (since February 2001) and Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich since 1 October 2004. He is the Head of the Power Electronics and Electrometrology Laboratory.
Johann W. Kolar was born in Austria on July 15, 1959. He studied industrial electronics at the University of Technology Vienna, Austria, and received his Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) in 1998. Since 1984 he has been with the University of Technology in Vienna, and has been teaching and working in research in close collaboration with the industry in the fields of high performance drives, high frequency inverter systems for process technology and uninterruptible power supplies. He has proposed numerous novel converter topologies, e.g., the VIENNA Rectifier concept. Johann W. Kolar has published over 100 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings and has filed 45 patents.
The focus of his current research is on novel converter topologies with low effects on the mains, e.g. for power supply of telecommunication systems and distributed power systems in connection with fuel cells. A further main area of research is the realization of ultra-compact intelligent converter modules employing latest power semiconductor technology (SiC) and novel concepts for cooling and EMC filtering. Here, apart from a detailed theoretical analysis, also the practical realization in accordance with industrial requirements is the main goal.
Mietek Bakowski
Dr. Mietek Bakowski received his PhD in 1974 and the Assistant Professor competence in 1981 at Chalmers University of Technology.
During 1975/76 and 1977/78 he worked as a guest researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in USA with oxide reliability issues in MOS devices. From 1983 until 1991 he was at the ABB leading GTO thyristor development projects. In 1991 he joined the IMC, Kista, where he worked with development and evaluation of silicon bipolar and BiMOS power devices.
Since 1994 he is with the SiC Electronics group at the Acreo, Kista, working with the design, simulation and electrical evaluation of SiC power devices. From 2001-2004 he has been Adjunct Professor at IMIT/KTH. His experience covers work within fields of non-destructive characterisation methods for bipolar, BiMOS, MOS and MNOS devices, numerical methods for device modelling and use of power devices in motor drive and HVDC applications. He is author and co-author of more than 100 scientific publications and 30 patents.
Hans-Peter Nee
Hans-Peter Nee was born in 1963 in Västerås, Sweden. He received the M.Sc., Licentiate, and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1987, 1992, and 1996, respectively, where he in 1999 was appointed Professor of Power Electronics in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
His interests are power electronic converters, semiconductor components, and control aspects of utility applications, like FACTS and HVDC, and variable-speed drives. Lately, special attention has been given to multilevel converters for high-power applications and high-temperature SiC electronics for hybrid electric vehicles.
Prof. Nee was awarded the Energy Prize by the Swedish State Power Board in 1991, the ICEM'94 (Paris) Verbal Prize in 1994, the Torsten Lindström Electric Power Scholarship in 1996, and the Elforsk Scholarship in 1997. He has served in the board of the IEEE Sweden Section for many years and was the chairman of the board during 2002 and 2003. He is also a member of EPE and serves in the Executive Council and in the International Steering Committee. Additionally, Prof. Nee is active in IEC and the corresponding Swedish organization SEK in the committees TC 25 and TK 25 respectively.