Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Dr. Alan Mantooth, University of Arkansas

Friday, April 6, 2018
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
1110 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Kara Stamets
301 405 4471
stametsk@umd.edu

Emerging Trends in Silicon Carbide Power Electronics 

H. Alan Mantooth

Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
21st Century Research Leadership Chair
University of Arkansas

Abstract: Economy and performance are benefits that come with high power density power electronics, just as in the case of VLSI electronics. High density power electronics require the heterogeneous integration of disparate technologies including power semiconductor devices, driver, protection and control circuitry, passives and voltage isolation techniques into single modules. Such integration activity was central to the Google Little Box Challenge competition conducted a couple of years ago. One of the keys to advancing power electronic integration has been the commercial reality of wide bandgap power semiconductor devices made from silicon carbide and gallium nitride. The ability to design and manufacture wide bandgap integrated circuits as drivers, controllers, and protection circuitry allows them to be packaged in close proximity to the power device die to minimize parasitics that would adversely impact system performance. These impacts include excessive ringing, noise generation, power loss, and, potentially, self-destruction. This talk will describe emerging trends in silicon carbide analog and mixed-signal IC design for power electronic applications. Advanced 3D packaging techniques driven by multi-objective optimization techniques will also be described.

Bio: Alan Mantooth received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and 21st Century Research Leadership Chair at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Mantooth has 20 years of academic experience in addition to eight years in industry. He has served in several leadership positions in both industry and academe, and currently serves as Executive Director for the NSF Research Center on Grid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) and as Deputy Director for the NSF Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS). Since its inception in 2005 he has served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transportation (NCREPT) and overseen its research and building program, which includes a 6 MVA test facility and cybersecurity testbed. He also serves as the Executive Director of the DoE Cybersecurity Center on Secure, Evolvable Energy Delivery Systems (SEEDS). Dr. Mantooth has published well over 300 refereed articles in modeling and electronic design and packaging, as well as three books. He is an IEEE Fellow, has served on the IEEE PELS Advisory Committee since 2004 and was elected PELS President for 2017 and 2018.

Audience: Graduate  Undergraduate  Faculty  Post-Docs 

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