SBIR/STTR Research Award
Intelligent, Fault Tolerant and Robust Silicon Carbide based Power Management Unit for Aircraft Applications
Award amount
$499,953Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2012-12-04
- Contract end date
- 2014-06-04
- UEI
- QZMVB44SHW19
- Solicitation number
- 2010.3
- Topic code
- N103-203
Research abstract
Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (APEI, Inc.), and Moog, Inc. have allied to form a team devoted to the development of an intelligent, multi-channel, highly-miniaturized, high-temperature, Silicon Carbide (SiC) based Solid-State Energy Distribution Unit (SSEDU) to support emerging More Electric Aircraft (MEA) platforms. By the end of this proposed SBIR Phase II program, the APEI/Moog team will design, build, and test a multi-channel, fully-integrated, high-temperature capable (250°C), high speed (<100µs), SiC-based SSEDU demonstrator. The proposed SiC-based SSEDU (shown conceptually in Figure 1) combines APEI, Inc."s advanced high temperature SiC power module technology with the latest SiC devices (e.g., SiC DMOSFETs and TMOSFETs) in order to develop a SSEDU that follows a system architecture and vision provided by Moog. The initial platform targeted is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High Power Density GaN-Based Power Converters for Grid-Tied Energy Storage
- A High Efficiency, High Power Density, GaN-Based DC-DC Converter for Grid-Tied Energy Storage Applications
- Extreme Temperature Radiation Tolerant Instrumentation for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Engines
- A Modular High Voltage (> 10 kV), High Power Density SiC Power Package for Extreme Environments
- A 300C Power Module Using Wide Bandgap Devices, Advanced Materials/Processes, and High Temperature Integrated Circuits for Geothermal Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Aircraft-based Prognostic, Robust, Intelligent Management of Electricity
- Intelligent, Fault Tolerant, and Robust Power Management for Aircraft Applications
- Intelligent, Fault Tolerant and Robust Silicon Carbide based Power Management Unit for Aircraft Applications
- A Solid-State Electrical Distribution Unit for Aircraft Applications
Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2015). Reported award amounts total $19,645,087. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation