New Publication on Advanced Control Strategies for SCAPE’s Battery Interfacing Converter As part of the development of advanced control strategies for the Battery Interfacing Converter (BIC), the paper Generalized Multiport, Multilevel NPC Dual-Active-Bridge [...]

High-voltage chip-embedded switching-cells revealed unbeatable thermal performance The first batch of high-voltage switching cells implemented with SiC MOSFETs embedded into PCB boards from Schweizer was successfully characterized from both a functional and electrical [...]

Digital Twins for Healthier Power Converters in Electric Vehicles One of the major challenges for electric mobility is ensuring that the electric-vehicle (EV) power electronic converter — the “brains” controlling energy flow between [...]

Powering Responsibly: The Environmental Assessment of SCAPE’s Inverter The LCA team is currently conducting an environmental assessment of the power inverter developed in SCAPE. This study evaluates not only greenhouse gas emissions but [...]

Testing SCAPE’s Multilevel Branch Mock-up As part of the ongoing validation of SCAPE’s modular converter architecture, IREC has successfully set up and initiated testing of a multilevel converter branch connected to a half-bridge [...]

New Compact Low-Voltage Switching Cell Prototype Successfully Designed, Implemented and Tested A new design of the low-voltage switching cell (LVSC) prototype, built around a 40 V GaN HEMT has been successfully designed, implemented, [...]