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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $433,286 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on April 1, 2025 to develop flexible, efficient, and dense power converters. This 5-year grant aims to improve the size and efficiency of buck-boost power converters by leveraging advancements in wide-bandgap semiconductor technology and utilizing capacitor-based topologies. The goal is to create a framework of condensed buck-boost...

This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to develop novel bidirectional high-power DC-DC onboard electric vehicle battery chargers with ultra-high power density and scalability operating over 1 megahertz. The research aims to address key gaps including designing and demonstrating 1.2 kilovolt gallium nitride field-effect transistors for high-frequency power converters operating over 800 volts and 1...

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $98,662,016 Project Grant to Switched Source LLC under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) to deploy distribution-level power flow controllers to a large utility at scale and incorporate this technology into the utility's planning and operational practices. The goal is to increase the grid's load serving capacity, which will enhance system reliability, cost-effectiveness, and the integration of electric vehicles and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $182,265 to Lehigh University to investigate a novel high-current conversion technology for various distributed energy resource (DER) applications. The key products and services to be delivered through this one-year project include: Developing a modular multiphase interleaved high current conversion technology leveraging wide bandgap semiconductor devices. This will involve...

This $1,103,042 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to enable more efficient power delivery for AI processors in data centers. The goal is to address knowledge gaps in integrating wide-bandgap microelectronics and power electronics to enable a 48V vertical power delivery approach, which can significantly reduce resistive power losses compared to conventional lateral power delivery. Key focus areas include...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports the Center for Power Management Integration Center (PMIC) - a collaborative effort between researchers at Dartmouth and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The $130,000 award, effective from May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2029, aims to advance innovations in power electronic circuits, systems, and components that enable higher efficiency, smaller size, and...

This award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering CFDA program provides $1,499,996 to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct research on developing ultra-efficient, high-voltage monolithic bidirectional transistors (MBDTs) for use in power electronics applications. The key objectives are to: 1) demonstrate the first ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) based MBDTs; 2) enhance the performance and manufacturability...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Project Grant, titled "ASCENT: ULTRA-COMPACT PV MICROINVERTERS WITH INTEGRATED ACTIVE POWER DECOUPLING", will provide $1,500,000 in funding from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. The project aims to develop transformative solar micro-inverters enabled by innovative circuit topologies, control techniques, sensors, and electro-thermal co-design. Key innovations include single-stage...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $1,500,000 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop an energy- and spectrum-efficient millimeter-wave (mmW) transmitter array system for next-generation wireless communications. The key objectives are to: 1) Utilize heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging to embed high-power wide-bandgap...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program under the Department of Energy, has awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (University of Nebraska) under CFDA Program 81.135. The grant funding will support the University of Nebraska's development of a first-of-its-kind 10 kV high-frequency press-pack (HFPP) silicon carbide MOSFET module, referred to as "METAPAK." This module is intended to enable novel high-frequency...