2019
Bits & Watts Initiative
PI: Srabanti Chowdhury, Electrical Engineering; Co-PI: Juan Rivas-Davila, Electrical Engineering
This project addresses a critical challenge of circuit protection in renewable power systems. Researchers look to develop ultrafast, autonomously operated, self-powered, bidirectional solid state circuit breakers using wide bandgap semiconductors. Such circuit breakers could respond at least ten times faster than conventional circuit protection in renewable power systems and, eventually, at a tenth of the cost.
