National Critical Technology Areas

Technology Category Technology Area

Energy Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage
Environmental Power Conditioning
Quality Power Distribution

Information and
Communication Distributed Power Supplies
Living Systems
Manufacturing Process Control Automation

Materials
Avionics and Controls
Transportation Power System Integration
Propulsion for Mass Transit
Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Source: President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology

 The Worldwide Electronics Market Overview

Power
Electronics
is an Enabling
Technology
Equipment Sales: $30B

Hardware Electronics
$570B

Total Electronics Market $1,000B

Source: Microtech
Interdisciplinary Nature of Power Electronics

• Power electronics encompasses

– Semiconductor Devices
– Circuit Theory and Network Analysis
– Analog and Digital Designs
– Control Theory
– Magnetics and Field Theory
– Thermal Analysis
– Embedded Systems
– Electric Machines
– Power Systems
– Signal Processing and Communication
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