Little Box Winner on Display in GaN Systems’ APEC Booth
The stream of small, light and highly efficient commercial power systems entering the market continues. Computer travel adaptors, ac-dc power supplies for datacenters, battery chargers for solar, dc-dc converters, and traction inverters for automobiles are among the dozens of applications using gallium nitride transistors to improve power electronics. Starting March 21st at APEC 2016 in Long Beach, California, GaN Systems will showcase a lineup of its customers' systems that are enabled by GaN transistors, including the winning entry in the Google and IEEE Little Box Challenge.
As announced last week, CE+T Power won the Google and IEEE Little Box Challenge using GaN transistors supplied by GaN Systems. CE+T was awarded the $1 million prize at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. CE+T Power’s innovative solution is a huge improvement on the competition’s original specification of 50W per cubic inch. Boasting a powerful 145W per cubic inch, the CE+T Power winning design is also only 13.77 cubic inches in size – smaller than a block of post-it notes, which is far smaller than the brief requested.
In addition to CE+T’s inverter, several other customer products will be featured at GaN Systems’ Booth including: High current power modules used in the industrial and automotive industries; A 12kW stop-start generator showcasing an unprecedented 5X size reduction; A >97% efficient, ultra-compact electric vehicle charger; A multi-voltage, high-speed 1.5kW motor controller; A high power, high efficiency traction inverter using GaN power modules; And a half-bridge evaluation board that simplifies GaN transistor testing.
