ASSIST - Advanced Sic based SolId State Transformer

Asset旨在建立一个主权供应链，使英国有能力生产电压和电流额定值与市场上现有设备显著不同的更高电压的碳化硅(SIC)设备。该项目将在供应链的三个级别建立制造准备，以创建涵盖晶片制造、器件封装和电力电子转换器制造的端到端能力。在之前DER项目SIC-MAP的成功基础上，Clas-SIC将完善工艺设计套件，以建立3300V SIC MOSFET制造能力。Alter UK将增强他们现有的塑料封装工艺能力，为SIC器件建立封装工艺，以提供低到中等水平的器件容量，成本与大容量离岸组装同义词。这两种工艺都将在更广泛的英国PEMD社区实现能力。宽带隙器件，如SIC MOSFET，能够实现高性能的电力电子转换器。随着热泵和电动汽车的广泛应用，英国希望应对电力需求增长的挑战，电力电子将在提供解决方案方面发挥核心作用，这些解决方案为配电网络提供必要的灵活性，以满足这一需求。通过辅助实现高电压、大电流的碳化硅MOSFET将改变固态变压器(SST)实现成本效益高和高效的紧凑型解决方案的命题，从而释放这一重大机遇。Turbo Power Systems将使用3300V设备生产SST模块，这将极大地简化已经建立的使用现有1200V设备的主张。符合条件的项目成本为GB 1,618,824，涉及四个合作伙伴-Clas-SIC晶片制造公司、Alter Technology UK、Turbo Power Systems和复合半导体应用Catapult，为此寻求1,093,472 GB的资金资助。

ASSIST aims to establish a sovereign supply chain to empower the UK with a capability for higher voltage Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices at voltage and current ratings that are significantly differentiated from devices currently available on the market. The project will establish manufacturing readiness across three levels of the supply chain to create end to end capability that covers wafer fabrication, device packaging and power electronic converter manufacture.Building on the success of a previous DER project SiC-MAP, Clas-SiC will refine a Process Design Kit to establish capability for 3300V SiC MOSFET manufacture. Alter UK will augment their established plastic encapsulation process capability to establish a packaging process for the SiC devices that delivers low to medium level device volumes at costs synonymous with high volume offshore assembly. Both processes will enable capability across the wider UK PEMD community.Wide Band Gap devices, such as SiC MOSFET, enable realisation of high performance power electronic converters. As the UK looks to address the challenge of meeting the increase of electricity demand that will take place with the widespread adoption of Heat Pumps and Electric Vehicles, power electronics will play a central role to delivering solutions that provide the necessary flexibility for the electricity distribution network to meet that need.The realisation of high voltage, high current SiC MOSFETs through ASSIST will transform the proposition for Solid State Transformer (SST) to realise a cost effective and highly efficient compact solution to that unlocks this significant opportunity. Turbo Power Systems will productionise an SST module using 3300V devices that greatly simplifies the already established proposition usings available 1200V devices.The eligible project costs are £1,618,824 across four partners - Clas-SiC Wafer fab, Alter Technology UK, Turbo Power Systems and the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, for which £1,093,472 funding contributions is sought.