Platform: Future Technologies in Power Electronics

迄今为止，PG已经实现了AC-AC转换的蓝天和应用研究，特别是后者，使航空航天，射频和能源领域的战略合作得以发展。虽然集团与国际航空航天部门的战略整合进展顺利，但与射频和能源部门的战略整合仍处于早期阶段；这是因为电力电子转换在各自市场的大规模渗透尚未实现。市场潜力和新的合作伙伴关系和战略的机会将在第2部分讨论。科学地说，现有的PG使PEMC集团能够发展其基础专业知识和知识转移潜力，以跨越电力电子技术的频谱，其中AC-AC和多层次，多蜂窝拓扑结构被视为依赖于应用性能规范的特定解决方案。例如，在射频功率电子学中，所有三种拓扑（和其他范例）都可以应用。平台拨款续期（PGR）的广泛目标是提供人力基础，以利用该集团在解决电力电子转换方面现有和未来挑战方面增加的科学潜力；并将这种潜力应用于选定的应用领域，以便与英国国内外的行业和机构建立新的和现有的战略合作关系。

To date, the PG has enabled blue-sky and applied research in AC-AC conversion, the latter, in particular, enabling growth of strategic collaborations in the aerospace, RF and energy sectors. Whilst the Group's strategic integration into the international aerospace sector is well advanced, that into the RF and energy sectors is at an early stage; this is because the mass penetration of power electronic conversion in to the respective markets has yet to be realised. The market potential and the opportunities for new partnerships and strategies are discussed in Section 2.Scientifically, the existing PG has enabled the PEMC Group to grow its base-expertise and knowledge transfer potential to span the spectrum of power electronic technologies in which AC-AC and multi-level, multi-cellular topologies are seen as particular solutions dependent on the nature of the application performance specifications. For example, in RF power electronics, all three topologies (and other paradigms) can be applied. The broad aim of the Platform Grant Renewal (PGR) is to provide the manpower base to exploit the Group's increased scientific potential in addressing existing and future challenges in power electronic conversion; and to apply this potential to selected application areas in order to develop new and existing strategic collaborations with industry and institutions, both within the UK and internationally.