TRIGER: Timed RF Integrated Gating for Energy Regulation

Technological advances in power electronics have enabled unprecedented growth of renewable energy sources over the past several decades. Power electronics innovations have brought significant improvements in controllability, performance, and energy availability, but are also fundamentally changing the nature of the grid as a system. As a result, the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) is funding programs to improve the actuation methods of modern power semiconductor switches to support a more capable, resilient, and reliable future grid. This talk will provide an overview of TRIGER (Timed RF Integrated Gating for Energy Regulation), one such new project led by RTRC in partnership with NCSU. TRIGER is an RF-enabled isolated gate drive system for high voltage silicon carbide MOSFETs designed to enable fast, efficient and resilient operation under high power operating conditions.

Brian McCabe

Senior Principal Engineer, United Technologies Research Center on November 1, 2024 at 10:15 AM in EB2 1231

Dr. McCabe is Discipline Lead for Electrical & Electromagnetic Systems at RTRC, the corporate research center for RTX. He is responsible for staff development and research capabilities in electromagnetic, photonic, optical and power electronics systems. Brian is the Principal Investigator for the TRIGER program. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon, an MS from Rensselaer, and a PhD from NYU Polytechnic University, all in electrical engineering.