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Integrated Simulation/Design/Analysis Infrastructure for SiC-based…

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Air Force 		Award ID:
73082 		Program Year/Program:
2006 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
F051-192-1988 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
PC Krause and Associates, Inc.
3000 Kent Avenue, Suite C1-100 West Lafayette, IN -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2006
Title: Integrated Simulation/Design/Analysis Infrastructure for SiC-based High-Temperature Power Conversion
Agency / Branch: DOD / USAF
Contract: FA8650-06-C-2663
Award Amount: $742,799.00
 

Abstract:

In order to realize the full potential of Silicon Carbide and to facilitate its deployment in high-temperature power electronics applications, it is important to establish an integrated modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) infrastructure to address the special considerations and numerous technical challenges that must be overcome and to support design at the device, subsystem, and system levels. The viability of such an infrastructure has been established in the on-going Phase I research. The overall objective of the proposed Phase II research is to further its development. In particular, the proposed Phase II effort entails: (1) the continued development of a distributed multi-level (device/subsystem/system) integrated (electrical/thermal) MS&A infrastructure to support SiC device development and their application to Air Force systems, (2) the investigation of how SiC device performance is affected by thermal and material properties and how defects influence thermal-electrical coupling, (3) the partitioning of the geometric physics-based device models for implementation in a distributed computer network, and (4) the investigation of the applicability of this powerful MS&A infrastructure to other areas of interest such as computational fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and combustion.

Principal Investigator:

Charles E. Lucas
Manager
7654648997
lucas@pcka.com

Business Contact:

Eric A. Walters
Vice President
7654648997
walters@pcka.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

P.C. KRAUSE & ASSOC., INC.
3016 Covington Street West Lafayette, IN 47906

EIN/Tax ID: 351581545
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No