Performance and Reliability of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor and Nano Device-Based Circuits for Energy Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 12789
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electric power conversion, medium to high voltage power electronics (HVDC and STATCOM), general power electronic converter design (topology, controller design, magnetics), resonant converters and high power density design, power semiconductor evaluation (SiC and GaN) and reliability assessment, aerospace power conversion systems, electric vehicle motor drives, solid state transformer design, and power electronics in microgrid applications
Interests: compound semiconductor materials and devices – including GaAs, InP, GaN and SiC; high speed integrated circuits; InP HBT ICs and optoelectronics; electronic power conversion; nanoelectronics; microelectronic IC fabrication and translation to pilot production
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy systems are rapidly moving toward the adoption of wide-bandgap semiconductor (WBG) devices for improved performance and/or environmental robustness in traditional power electronics applications. Such applications include power conversion in grid energy management, electric vehicles, and space/military platforms as well as newly emerging areas in wireless energy transfer/charging, energy storage, data center efficiency, and high density power conversion. Growing interest is seen from manufacturer and government investments in the utilization of SiC, GaN semiconductors, and more recently Ga2O3, are being developed in a variety of device structures in both a horizontal and vertical fashion. With the advantageous capabilities offered by these semiconductors, increased demands are being placed on their operation/performance; thus device and circuit reliability represent critical criteria in their adoption into real systems.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research and review articles that relate reliability and performance for WBG semiconductor devices (of various materials and device structures) and circuits (or various topologies and operating domains) in energy systems. Additionally, submissions are sought that describe the standards that these technologies should meet for specific application areas.
Dr. Brandon Grainger
Prof. William E. Stanchina
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- power electronics
- reliability
- wide bandgap semiconductor
- GaN
- SiC
- Ga2O3
- semiconductor
- nanoelectronic device
- power conversion circuit
- environmental robustness
- electric grid
- electric vehicle
- space power conversion
- military power conversion