- Power Electronics is the enabling technology for an electrified world, converting electric energy from one form to the other, from a few watts to 100s MW
- SPEC at UT Austin is a center of excellence with strong industry guidance
- Educate and train world class students
- Perform and publish world-class research
- Design, build, and test first-of-a-kind devices and systems
- World class facility accessible by industry
- Technology transfer to industry ‒ Spinout companies
- Provide advice to the government
- Educating the public through demonstration and pilot project
- Industry supports SPEC typically in the following three way
- Sponsor a SPEC fellowship (typically $70k/per year)
- Sponsor a contract research with defined milestones and budget
- Joint proposal to government (NSF, DOE, Arpa-E etc.)
SPEC Students received 2nd place award in the student hardware project demonstration at ECCE 2024
Congratulation to SPEC students Zibo Chen, Chen Chen, Huanghaohe Zou, Mafu Zhang for winning the Second Place Prize at ECCE 2024 for the student demo entitled "High-Performance SiC Power Module Based on 3D Repacking of Discrete SiC Devices".
APEC Outstanding Presentation Award
Feb. 2024: Congratulations to SPEC student Mafu Zhang for winning the Outstanding Presentation Award at APEC 2024 for the paper entitled "New Single-Stage Single-Phase Isolated Bidirectional AC-DC PFC Converter".
APEC Outstanding Presentation Award
Feb. 2024: Congratulations to SPEC student Huanghaohe Zou for winning the Outstanding Presentation Award at APEC 2024 for the paper entitled "Simplified Fixed Frequency Phase Shift Modulation for a Novel Single-Stage Single Phase Series-Resonant AC-DC Converter".
IEEE APEC 2024
February 2024: Several researchers from the Semiconductor Power Electronics Center (SPEC) attended the 2024 IEEE APEC Conference in Long Beach, California from 02/25/2024 to 02/29/2024. Three papers from Dr. Huang’s group were presented at this conference.
SPEC part of the team selected by DOE working with John Deere to electrify agriculture vehicles
Feb 2024: SPEC experts are working with John Deere to develop technologies to electrify agriculture vehicles like tractors. A new project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy aims to develop a mobile and rapid charging mechanism for remotely located electric vehicles used in farming and construction operations. A trio of UT battery experts are part of the $2.25 million project led by John Deere: Prof. Alex Huang, SPEC director and expert in power electronics; Prof. Venkat Subramanian, expert in battery management systems; and Prof. Hao Zhu, expert in electric power systems.
SPEC Student XiXi Luo's Defense
Dec. 2023: SPEC congratulates XiXi Luo for successfully defending her Ph.D. Her thesis title is "Research and Development of High Voltage SiC Bipolar Junction Transistor". Her committee members include Alex Huang, Xiuling Li, Sanjay Banerjee, Ananth Dodabalapur, and Anant Agarwal.
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