Power Electronics Lab
The Power Electronics Lab offers comprehensive testing facilities for the characterisation, design, assembly and evaluation of power electronic converters and magnetic components. The lab also facilitates the evaluation and research of power semiconductor components.
Our state-of-the-art infrastructure includes equipment such as power hardware-in-the-loop setups for real-time simulations, programmable high-power alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power supplies and loads, high-frequency measuring instruments, precision power analysers for efficiency assessments, a rapid prototyping platform, thermal imaging cameras, 3D printers and PCB manufacturing equipment.
Furthermore, our lab utilises AI tools designed to support and optimise the design process for power components and converters through automated design methodologies.
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Who can use the Power Electronics Lab?
- Developers of power semiconductors.
- Developers of transformers, inductors and heat sinks.
- Developers of converters.
- System administrators.
- Industrial players in the energy sector.
What is the purpose of the Power Electronics Lab?
- Expertise in power electronics converter hardware, control systems and system-level interactions.
- Development of new customer-specific power electronic converters.
- Testing of power electronic converters.
- Interoperability in power electronic converters.
- Efficiency characterisation of power electronic converters.
- Characterisation and modelling of power semiconductor components.
- Rapid converter prototyping environment available with fully customisable control schemes.
- Efficiency measurements.
