SBIR/STTR Research Award
Silicon Carbide (SiC) Power Processing Unit (PPU) for Hall Effect Thrusters
Award amount
$599,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2011-06-01
- Contract end date
- 2013-08-31
- UEI
- QZMVB44SHW19
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S3.04
Research abstract
In this SBIR project, APEI, Inc. is proposing to develop a high efficiency, rad-hard 3.8 kW silicon carbide (SiC) power supply for the Power Processing Unit (PPU) of Hall Effect thrusters. This program specifically targets the design of a PPU for the HiVHAC (High Voltage Hall ACcelerator) thruster, with target specifications of 80-160V input, 200-700V / 5A output, efficiency greater than 96%, and peak power density in excess of 2.5 kW/kg. The PPU under development utilizes SiC JFET power switches; components which APEI, Inc. has irradiated under TID conditions to greater than 3 MRad with little to zero change in device performance.
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
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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