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Thrusts

POETS comprises three research thrusts:

The POETS Research Thrusts should be viewed as an integrated collection of efforts that overlap by design.
The POETS Research Thrusts should be viewed as an integrated collection of efforts that overlap by design.

 

Thrust 1: System Design and Operation

This thrust provides multi-disciplinary design tools that enhance the ability to create new physical architectures, then determines how best to operate these as-designed systems; draws from the advances made in Thrusts 2 and 3 to feed new components into the design tools. The design phase of optimization is coupled with the operational phase, where this thrust takes the as-designed systems and determines the best way to utilize them, respecting electrical and thermal constraints.

Thrust 2: Packaging and Integration

This thrust develops basic design topologies for new electronic components such as inverters, power converters, motors, storage, etc. Thrust 2 uses some of the fundamental new components developed in Thrust 3 and combines them using the design optimization tools of Thrust 1 to elicit novel designs.

Thrust 3: Component Fabrication

The most fundamental thrust, Thrust 3 examines basic materials and their integration into electro-thermal components. These materials include wide bandgap materials with promising electrical behavior, as well as new autonomic materials that change their behavior as a function of temperature. Thrust 3 is where the fundamental thermal routing development takes place