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GE Scientists Demonstrate Ultra-High Temperature SiC MOSFET Electronics

June 01, 2023
  • First believed SiC MOSFETs that can operate at temperatures exceeding 800 degrees C.
  • New temperature tolerance threshold believed to set a record for MOSFET based electronics
  • Could enable robust, reliable electronics to support space exploration and to control and monitor hypersonic vehicles in extreme high temperature operating environments

NISKAYUNA, NY – Thursday, June 1, 2023 – A team of scientists from GE Research have set a new record, demonstrating SiC MOSFETs (Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Field-Effec

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Future of Flight

Packing a Punch: This GE Engineer Is Designing a High-Tech ‘Suitcase’ for Electric Air Travel

Chris Noon
March 01, 2023
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Satish Prabhakaran almost missed his calling as an engineer. In the summer of 1994, the 14-year-old Prabhakaran, a native of Chennai, India, was on summer break with family in the United Kingdom. While there he had the opportunity to intern at a local hospital. The placement was intended to give him a taste for the career in medicine that would surely follow, remembers Prabhakaran. “My dad’s a doctor, and my mom’s a chemistry lecturer,” he says. “There was an assumption that I’d probably end up being a doctor too.”

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Future of Flight

Power in the Air: GE Aerospace’s ‘Smart Grids’ Make Flying More Efficient

Dianna Delling
November 02, 2022

New technologies, from advanced propellers and flight management systems to software focused on optimizing routes to reduce fuel use, are changing the way we fly.

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Power Electronics

It’s Electric: Silicon Carbide Takes Army’s Vehicle Fleet Into The Future

February 15, 2020
It famously took 1.21 gigawatts, roughly the capacity of a large nuclear power plant, to fire up the DeLorean time machine in the “Back to the Future” movies. Time travel might still be the stuff of science fiction but some of Dr. Emmett Brown’s technology wasn’t too far from reality. His attempts to channel the energy from a lightning bolt into the DeLorean’s flux capacitor, for example, were also a madcap introduction to power electronics, the systems that send electricity around in cars and many other machines and devices.
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materials

This Material Is SiC! Wonder Compound Makes The Jump From Skateboards To Next-Gen Military Tech

Fred Guterl
January 14, 2019

It would be hard to imagine a happier success story than silicon-based electronics. In the six decades since Morris Tanenbaum built the first silicon transistor at Bell Labs, engineers have been able to shrink the size of the transistors they put on a silicon chip from microns to nanometers, and increase the density of circuit elements a millionfold. But silicon has an Achilles' heel: When it gets hot, its electrical properties degrade, and chips made from the material fail faster.

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Solar

Like A Diamond In The Rough, This Abrasive Material Finds Its Place In The Sun

September 27, 2016
In 1891, Edward Acheson was working at Thomas Edison’s famed Menlo Park laboratory, trying to make artificial diamonds by heating clay and powdered coke in an iron bowl with a carbon arc light. The result wasn’t pretty. Instead of diamonds, he created silicon carbide—a hard and rough compound used for decades mostly as an abrasive in industrial sandpaper, grinding wheels and cutting tools, and later a grip tape for skateboard decks.
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Solar Power

Something New Under the Sun: GE’s Industrial Grade Inverter Takes Solar Power to a New High

Tomas Kellner
September 10, 2015
Try as he might, Vlatko Vlatkovic won’t make the sun shine brighter. So when he wanted to make a more efficient solar farm, he and his team had to go for the next best thing: a gray plastic box the size of a small hut called the inverter. “It takes direct current from the PV panels and turns it into alternating current that you can use,” says Vlatkovic, chief engineering officer at GE Power Conversion. “Since the inverter system also represents as much as 20 percent of the capital costs of the farm, you could make a huge impact if you made it more efficient.”
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Pure Grit: Material With Skateboarding Heritage Could Make Planes, Trains and Automobiles Use Less Power

April 08, 2015
Power management chips are like second-born kids. They do a lot of hard work, but don’t always get the recognition they deserve.
Like microchips inside computers and laptops, power management chips are pieces of semiconductor as small as a cornflake. But they move electricity (watts), not data (bytes). Their circuits help extend battery life and reduce power consumption for a broad range of devices: from smartphones and tablets to brain scanners and jet engines. They can make machines smaller, lighter, and more efficient.
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