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Integrated Simulation/Design/Analysis Infrastructure for SiC-based High-Temperature Power Conversion

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-06-C-2663
Agency Tracking Number: F051-192-1988
Amount: $742,799.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF05-192
Solicitation Number: 2005.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-05-05
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-09-05
Small Business Information
3016 Covington Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906
United States
DUNS: 161183322
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Charles E Lucas
 Manager
 (765) 464-8997
 lucas@pcka.com
Business Contact
 Eric Walters
Title: Vice President
Phone: (765) 464-8997
Email: walters@pcka.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

In order to realize the full potential of Silicon Carbide and to facilitate its deployment in high-temperature power electronics applications, it is important to establish an integrated modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) infrastructure to address the special considerations and numerous technical challenges that must be overcome and to support design at the device, subsystem, and system levels. The viability of such an infrastructure has been established in the on-going Phase I research. The overall objective of the proposed Phase II research is to further its development. In particular, the proposed Phase II effort entails: (1) the continued development of a distributed multi-level (device/subsystem/system) integrated (electrical/thermal) MS&A infrastructure to support SiC device development and their application to Air Force systems, (2) the investigation of how SiC device performance is affected by thermal and material properties and how defects influence thermal-electrical coupling, (3) the partitioning of the geometric physics-based device models for implementation in a distributed computer network, and (4) the investigation of the applicability of this powerful MS&A infrastructure to other areas of interest such as computational fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and combustion.

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