IA client wins R&D Award for work on power module.(Innovation Briefs)

R&D Magazine has named Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc. of Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission as recipients of the 2009 R&D 100 Award for their high-temperature silicon carbide power module.

APEI is an Innovate Arkansas client.

A joint development among APEI, the university, Robot Co. LTD and Sandia National Laboratory, the APEI power module is the world's first commercial high-temperature silicon carbide-based power electronics module. With applications in hybrid and electric vehicles, renewable energy interfaces and electric aircraft, the APEI power module reduces size and volume of power electronic systems by an order of magnitude over present state-of-the-art silicon-based solutions while simultaneously reducing energy loss by greater than 50 percent, translating to significant potential energy savings.

According to APEI President and CEO Alex Lostetter, "the performance increases developed from our power module are not incremental; they are revolutionary."

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