Highly Efficient Power Converters for Data Centre and Telecommunication

Overview

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) has developed a new electronics packaging technology platform with improved electrical, thermal and reliability performance for key power conversion modules in data centres and telecommunication equipment.

  • Highly Efficient Power Converters for Data Centre and Telecommunication
Research completion
2019
Commercialisation opportunities
IP licensing; Technology co-development
Problem addressed

As effort to address the challenges of supplying ever increasing computing power using less energy in a smaller space with mission-critical reliability, ASTR has developed a new technology platform using Vertical-Driver-GaN and Package-Embedded Inductor technologies to improve the power density and the coupled electromagnetic-thermal performance concurrently for the critical power conversion modules in the next-generation data centres and telecommunication equipment.

Innovation
  • ~50% improvement of power density
  • ~2X improvement of driving speed
  • ~30% reduction of power loss & thermal resistance
  • ~3X improvement of reliability
Key impact
  • Power conversion for high-end applications
  • Fast driving speed for 3rd generation power semiconductors
  • Low power loss for energy saving
  • More reliable for a longer lifetime
Application
  • Data centres
  • 5G base station
  • Industrial control
  • Robotics 

Patent

  • US Patent No. 10,784,213 and CN Patent No.ZL201880000127.X
  • US Patent No. 11,127,524 ; CN App No. 201980000142.9 and HK App No. 62021023244.8
  • US Patent No. 10,609,844 ; CN App No. 201980000324.6 and HK App No. 62021023240.6
  • US Patent No. 10,847,297 ; CN App No. 201980002632.2 and HK App No. 62020022914.9
  • US Patent No. 10,938,310 ; CN App No. 202080000133.2 and HK App No. 62021040007.8
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is founded in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As Hong Kong’s largest government-funded research and development centre, ASTRI is a key force and super connector driving innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the global innovation ecosystem. This role is strengthened through its merger with Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI).

Committed to bringing high impact research from lab to market, ASTRI advances interdisciplinary, market driven R&D that delivers practical innovations for industry and meaningful benefits for society.

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