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Consortium
The MoWiLife consortium combines market leaders, innovative SMEs, and renowned academic partners. Together, they bring expertise in power semiconductors, high-power electronics, wind turbines, and HVDC grids to drive the project forward.
University Rostock
The Institute of Electrical Power Engineering of the University of Rostock (UROS) is working on power semiconductors, converter topologies and control for high power applications, mainly in the field of wind energy conversion and high voltage DC transmission. Its laboratory facilities enable testing of power semiconductors under high currents and voltages, supporting the development of a full-scale power converters in MoWiLife.
Vestas Wind System A/S
With a vision to become the global leader in sustainable energy solutions, everything we do revolves around the development and deployment of sustainable energy solutions. Every day, we help to create a better world by designing, manufacturing, installing, developing, and servicing wind energy and hybrid projects all over the world. We have more than 40 years of experience in wind energy and were the first company to reach the 100 GW landmarks for both the installation and service of wind turbines. Wind energy is our heritage and core competence. We believe wind will form the backbone of the sustainable energy systems of the future, and we remain focused on developing solutions that accelerate the energy transition and strengthen Vestas’ continued leadership in wind.
DiamFab
DIAMFAB’s know-how on diamond epitaxial layers and in-situ doping is unique. Layers can be grown with very high accuracy on thickness and doping level over a wide range of dopant concentrations while keeping the crystalline quality very high. In addition, DIAMFAB is able to grow a stack of different layers required for electronic device fabrication with good interface quality between each layer. DIAMFAB’s know how also includes the design of components using diamond wafers (diodes, transistors and capacitors), and the process techniques needed to manufacture them.
Rostocker Kompetenzzentrum für Leistungselektronik Gmbh (RKL)
The RKL was founded by power electronics researchers in 2022 with the goal of delivering the outcomes of cutting-edge research innovations to our industrial partners and assisting in their practical implementation. Having completed projects with various power semiconductor manufacturers and wind turbine manufacturers, we are confident in bringing the right expertise to this project.
University of Aberdeen
The Aberdeen HVDC research center at University of Aberdeen (UAb) has 8-10 researchers. The center has a long history of HVDC related research, covering system studies, modeling, control, component development, and participates strongly in related CIGRE and IEEE activities. The center has a well-equipped power electronics laboratory, with its 5 kV, 20 kA DC circuit breaker test circuit and multiple low-voltage DC circuit breaker demonstrators the competence, infrastructure and resources are available for research on modular high voltage DC circuit breaker within MoWiLife.
Infineon Technologies AG
Infineon Technologies AG (IFAG) is a global leader in semiconductor solutions that make life easier, safer and more environmentally friendly. IFAG is the world’s number 1 in discrete power semiconductors and modules, the market segment to which the main components for wind power energy generation are assigned. The MoWiLife research findings will support the development of new SiC power modules, ensuring continued EU technological leadership in this market segment and an EU-internal supply chain for power electronics in the wind energy sector.
Aalborg University
Aalborg University (UAal) obtained 1.1 mio. euro funding for its first medium voltage power module laboratory in 2012 to develop a medium voltage technology platform for wind turbines power converters. The medium voltage research team has since developed from three people and to 25 people in 2024. Leveraging their expertise in paralleling power modules and designing ultra-low parasitic capacitance gate drivers, they will contribute to the development of an industrial-scale wind power converter.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
The Division of Electric Power Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has been active in the field of high-power electronics for many years. The main topics investigated have been modular multilevel converters and control thereof, gate drivers and associated auxiliary power supplies, soft-switching converters, and SiC power converters and their reliability. Most of the activities involve experimental work in the wellequipped laboratory, where multi-MW submodules for modular multilevel converters have been investigated operating at full power.
IUNET (the Italian National Interuniversity Consortium for Nanoelectronics)
IUNET consists of 14 Italian Universities active in the field of Electronic Technologies and, in particular, physics, modeling, characterization, design and reliability of micro- and nano-electronic components for digital and analog applications, optoelectronic and power devices, sensors and biosensors, renewable energy production facilities, energy harvesting and energy storage. In the last years IUNET has accumulated a wide knowledge and expertise on the characterization, physical interpretation and modelling of performance- and reliability-limiting phenomena in Wide Bandgap and Ultra-Wide Bandgap technologies, as well as on their application in the field of power electronics. Within the MoWiLife project, two IUNET universities will participate to the research activity: the University of University of Padova and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Both universities have a long-time experience in the field of wide and ultra-wide bandgap electronics, and on characterization and modeling of electronic devices.
