Location: Faculty Lounge, Elevator C, floor 2, Electrum, Kista

Title: Device Developments in the UK Centre for Power Electronics

Presenter: Prof. Philip Mawby

Affiliation: University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Abstract

The EPSRC centre for power electronics is formed from a team of 10 of the UK’s leading universities involved with power electronics research. The project consists of four, linked themes: Devices, Components, Drives and Converters. This talk will give an overview of the devices theme and its developments in the areas of Silicon IC power devices, SiC and GaN devices.

Bio

Professor Philip Mawby holds the Chair of Power Electronics within the School of Engineering at Warwick. He is also Head of Research for the school. He has been at the University for just over 11 years, and has established a world leading research group in SiC based power electronics.He is one of the UK’s leading authorities on Silicon Carbide power device technology and applications. He also has an internationally recognized activity in the modelling of power devices, particularly in the area of compact modelling and fast systems modelling.

Professor Mawby was the project leader for the £10m science city project on energy efficiency. This project has provided Warwick a dedicated cleanroom for silicon carbide power device research as well as vehicle integration lab consisting of two linked dynamometers capable of up to 500kW. In addition a team led by professor mawby has been awarded a £3m EPSRC grant on Vehicle Electrical Systems Integration (VESI) to study how the vehicle motor and the power electronics can be integrated to deliver more compact designs, with higher reliability.

More recently he has work on two national projects funded by EPSRC on smart grids and grid infrastructure with a team of leading universities in the sector (HUBNET and Top and Tail). The group has a well-equipped research cleanroom dedicated to the development of SiC power devices. He currently leads the Devices theme of the EPSRC Power Electronics UK national centre (EP/L007101/1). He also led the highly successful, VESI (IDP5) EPSRC funded project on automotive electrical systems (EP/I013636/1). The team at Warwick consists of 8 academics and a team of over 30 researchers. Recently, a joint laboratory with the University of Chongqing in China has been established in order to focus on exploitation of SiC technology, as it is recognised in China as a key enabling building block. The leading international conference in SiC (ECSCRM 2018) will be hosted by Warwick in Birmingham in 2018.

He now heads a team of 25 researchers.  He is the author of over 200 journal and international conference papers, a fellow of the IET and a fellow of the Institute of Physics as well as a senior member of the IEEE. Professor Mawby is currently running numerous research projects in the area of power electronics in the automotive, aerospace, power distribution, semiconductor materials and power electronics reliability areas.

He also leads Warwick’s global research priority (GRP) in Energy across the university.