Coordination Funds

SPP 2312 GaNius优先计划的目标是基于III族氮化物的新兴电力电子领域。其核心目标是促进高效电力电子系统的新型器件，电路和组件的跨学科和合作研究。电力电子技术的进步对于电力的高效产生、分配、转换和使用至关重要。应用领域是多方面的。电力电子技术是将可再生能源集成到电力系统、电动汽车、数据中心供电或移动通信高频网络中的关键技术。宽禁带半导体材料的进展使得功率半导体器件的开关速度比目前的技术水平高出一个数量级，显著降低了欧姆和动态损耗，并改善了热性能。特别是，半导体材料氮化镓（GaN）为高频电力电子元件和高效、高度紧凑的系统提供了新的集成深度和新颖的转换器拓扑选择。除了减少系统体积和成本外，这还开辟了新的应用领域，并且与应用相关的二氧化碳当量可以显着减少。为了实现这一社会相关和技术上可能的进步，需要以跨学科的方式开发必要的科学方法，将固态物理、半导体技术和系统设计的专业知识结合起来。协调项目的主要任务是将研究小组聚集在一起，为富有成效的科学交流与合作创造环境。年度科学研讨会将举行，所有与会者将介绍和讨论他们的进展和结果。来自研究和工业的国际嘉宾被邀请参加并为研讨会做出贡献。该项目旨在通过进一步的措施支持年轻科学家和博士生的科学事业，如专门为年轻研究人员举办的研讨会、交流旅行资助和暑期学校。它还将提供一项性别平等方案和有利于家庭的工作条件，以特别鼓励和支持女性研究人员和父母的科学事业。

The priority programme SPP 2312 GaNius targets the emerging field of power electronics based on group III nitrides. Its core objective is to foster interdisciplinary and cooperative research on novel devices, circuits and components for highly efficient power electronic systems.The advancement of power electronics is essential for efficient generation, distribution, conversion and use of electric power. Application areas are manifold. Power electronics is a key technology for the integration of renewable energies in power systems, the electromobility, the power supply for data centers or the high-frequency network for mobile communications. The progress in wide-bandgap semiconductor materials allows for power semiconductor devices reaching switching speeds an order of magnitude above the state of the art, with significantly reduced ohmic and dynamic losses, and improved thermal properties. In particular, the semiconductor material Gallium Nitride (GaN) offers options for new depths of integration and novel converter topologies for high-frequency power electronic components and efficient, highly compact systems. Next to a reduction of system volume and cost, this opens new fields of application, and the CO2 equivalents associated with the applications can be significantly reduced.To achieve this socially relevant and technically possible progress, the necessary scientific methods need to be developed in an interdisciplinary approach that combines the expertise from solid state physics, semiconductor technology and system design.The main task of the coordination project is to bring the research groups together and develop the environment for fruitful scientific exchange and collaboration. Annual scientific workshops will be held where all participants will present and discuss their progress and results. International guests from research and industry are invited to participate and contribute to the workshops. The programme intents to support the scientific career of young scientists and PhD students by further measures like specific workshops for young researchers, travel grants for exchange, and a summer school. It will also provide a gender equality programme and family-friendly working conditions to particularly encourage and support the scientific careers of female researchers and parents.