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| Glenn0010:
Hi All, I'm looking at doing a PhD at some point next year. I'm a Power Electronics Engineer working in a Industrial Drives Company. I am at the very early stages of compiling a shortlist of possible projects I want to peruse. My goal would be to produce something that is tangible and I can compare to current system i.e. build the hardware for it. My passion is mainly gate drives and transistors (IGBTs FETs etc) but don't want to limit the scope just yet. Some areas that I possibly want to look at are: Active Gate Drives DC link reduction Possibly Active Filtering for high speed switching (GaN) I was wondering if anyone had more suggestions of possible projects/areas related to fields similar to what I am looking at. Thanks! |
| tautech:
Use of fast MOSFET complementary pairs for gate drivers instead of dedicated gate driver IC's. Some say it can't be done because of shoot through but I'm not so sure. Has the potential to further miniaturize power electronics with the choice of the correct device parameters. |
| tggzzz:
As an aside, I'll mention some informal conclusions reached a couple of decades ago by a group of us in a commercial R&D lab. We discussed what are the "valid" reasons for doing a PhD. The only unquestionably valid reason we identified was the best possible one: "because I want to". We didn't believe "enhanced career prospects" in general. Exception: where you couldn't advance up a career ladder without a PhD. The only case we identified was the UK scientific civil service. We didn't believe "higher salary" or "easier to get a job" in general. Exception: where the PhD topic was directly relevant to an employer. But that implies a very limited set of employers, and begs the question of what happens in a few years time. So, enjoy your time doing a PhD! |
| German_EE:
Go speak to some of the elevator companies. With buildings getting higher the limiting factor is now the rope length and weight so they are now talking of building cars with motors in them. This will be an interesting challenge |
| Psi:
Maybe some new inverter power electronic technology for electric car motor controllers? |
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