Power Electronics for Illuminating Engineering (10)

Environmental Engineering in the Power Electronics Education

Sustainable development and engineering ethics as well as social aspects of engineering are emerging issues related to power electronics. Several important topics like environmentally sustainable products and electromagnetic compatibility fit into this description. Therefore, these issues have recently become part of the advanced course on power electronics at Lund University. The authors’ inte...

Interface Engineering for Organic Electronics

Protein engineering for molecular electronics.

Recombinant DNA technology allows the manipulation of the physical properties of proteins that perform electron transport and photochemical processes. Recent work is reviewed that has a potential impact on the development of molecular electronic devices, within a general framework outlining strategies for device fabrication. This review is also published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology...

Thermoelectrics for Cooling Power Electronics

To increase the efficiency and reduce emissions, the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), fuel cell vehicle (FCV), and electric vehicle (EV) types were developed. All these vehicle types rely on power electronics (PEs) to function. Yet, the reliability and performance of PEs are directly related to the operating temperature. Therefore, cooling is considered an option to reduce the operating temperatu...

Electronics below 10 Nm

This chapter reviews prospects for the development and practical introduction of ultrasmall electron devices, including nanoscale field-effect transistors (FETs) and single-electron transistors (SETs), as well as new concepts for nanometer-scalable memory cells. Physics allows silicon FETs to be scaled down to ∼3 nm gate length, but below ∼10 nm the devices are extremely sensitive to minute (su...