Coordination Funds

• Applicant: Professorin Dr.-Ing. Sibylle Dieckerhoff
• Subject Area: Electronic Semiconductors, Components and Circuits, Integrated Systems, Sensor Technology, Theoretical Electrical Engineering
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 462880274

Power electronics is a key technology to realize the worldwide transition towards sustainable electric energy systems and applications in industry, transportation or communication. With the visible and further significantly increasing need for power electronic components, their energy efficiency, use of resources and reliability become even more important and demand for new device and converter technologies beyond the state-of-the-art. Wide-bandgap power semiconductors have made remarkable progress in the past years. Specifically power semiconductors based on Gallium Nitride (GaN) have improved considerably and found their way into the market, however still restricted to a small power and application range. Research within the priority programme GaNius aims to leverage the full potential of the GaN / group III nitride materials like switching speed or integration depth for highly compact, efficient and reliable power electronic systems, and to open up new fields of application. To achieve this socially relevant and technically challenging progress, the priority programme in two funding periods fosters interdisciplinary and cooperative research of experts from semiconductor technology, electrical engineering and system design to develop the scientific fundamentals for novel device geometries, converter design, converter topologies, and components. In the course of the programme, the focus of the work of all participating research groups moves from material and device development to research into converter design, circuit topologies and power electronic components.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 2312: Energy Efficient Power Electronics "GaNius"