Power stack design optimization & evaluation kits
Optimize your inverters with Mersen's power stack design & optimization and test your project requirements using our evaluation kits. Enhance power density and reduce costs. Trust our expertise for reliable custom solutions.
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Power stack design & optimization, manufacturing & testing - Evaluation kits
Mersen is your preferred partner to assist you during the development phase of your power stack design optimization.
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Weeks of development time saved thanks to Mersen
Using Mersen's power stack design optimization, we increased our power density by 15% and reduced thermal dissipation significantly. The team’s expertise allowed us to identify and solve a critical overheating issue within the first week of testing, saving us months of development time.Liam Raid
Lead Electrical Engineer
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What is power stack design & optimization?
When it comes to designing power inverters and converters, our customers require power stages or power stacks with enhanced power density (kW/liter) while minimizing conversion losses (Efficiency %), reducing cost ($/kW) and reducing size and weight of the overall system.
Thanks to its undisputed reputation in bus bar, cooling, fusing, capacitor design, and manufacturing, Mersen is your preferred partner to assist you during the development phase of your Silicon (Si), Silicon Carbide (SiC) or Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based power stack, bringing a technical cross-expertise on these 4 key products to push the optimization to the limit.
Who benefits from power stack design optimization?
Power stack design optimization and testing can be performed for various types of companies and specialists :
- Inverter / Stack design-houses with limited or no production capability.
- OEM / stack and inverter manufacturers: specialists and generalists.
- System Integrators for whom defining converters is not core business.
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Co-development and power stack design & optimization approach
We place our customers at the heart of power stack design optimization to provide highly personalized services.
The most appropriate topology for the ideal power stack design & optimization
Whereas the final application ultimately drives the inverter operating point setting, our customers are designing the most appropriate topology and control to power this application. From this topology, Mersen is capable of turning a virtual CAD design into a real piece of technology thanks to tight co-development work.
Using multiple power stack design optimization iterations, Mersen is helping their customers achieve the best possible design, taking into account both, mechatronics and electronics constraints and challenges.
A complete tool-set of simulation for high-level of power stack design & optimization
Mersen uses a complete tool-set of simulation software in order to compute any designs in all physical dimensions: Mechanical, Thermal, Electrical, Electromagnetics. These tools allow us to anticipate the multi-physics interactions between all the components and thus to select these components in an optimal mix.
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Mersen services around power stack design & optimization, manufacturing & testing
From a few prototypes to volume manufacturing, Mersen assists you for power stack design optimization during:
- the development phase,
- the testing,
- the qualification followed by the sampling,
- the volume ramp-up
- and finally the industrialization of your Silicon (Si), Silicon Carbide (SiC) or Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based power stack.
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Conception optimization
and design cycle-time reduction
with testing and design validation in our labs.
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Single face
project management
No need to manage multiple suppliers in sync.
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Preferential access
to main components
● Mersen-made cooling solutions, bus bar, capacitors and fuses,
● Preferred suppliers for power modules, gate driver, current sensors, and others. -
Overall price optimization
Scale effect
with a total customization approach without predefined technical bricks
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Techincal Information
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A total customization approach without predefined technical bricks
- Dimensions, footprint, geometry
- Circuit topology: 3-level, NPC, ANPC, bi-directional, DC-DC, back-to-back…
- Gate driver: hard switching, soft switching, zero-voltage switching (ZVS)
- Cooling solutions: Air, liquid, heat-pipe…
- Power range, current rating
- Switching Frequency Fsw
- Voltage: 650V, 1.2 kV, 1.7 kV, 3.3 kV modules or more
- Semiconductor technology: SiC MOSFET, Si IGBT, GaN HEMT…
- AC-filtering
- And more according to the demand.
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A global footprint for your power stack design & optimization
Our center of excellence for power stack design optimization, including assembly / test services for low and medium volumes is located in the United States. The vast majority of the constituent parts used for stack assembly are designed and manufactured in Mersen facilities all over the globe with dual or triple sourcing capability. Our partners and tier-one suppliers also offer dual sourcing strategies.
Our power stack manufacturing footprint includes:
“Stack Lab”: Prototyping and small series
- Located in Rochester, NY – USA
Pilot Line: Volume ramp-up and mid-size series
- Located in Rochester, NY – USA
- Equipped with an automatic test bench and customer specific power loads
Series Line(s): Volume manufacturing
- Customer specific
- Local-to-local approach: operating in North or South America, Europe, or India according to the final customer supply-chain strategy.
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Power Stack Evaluation Kits included in Power stack design & optimization
Power stack design optimization includes power stack evaluation kits. Mersen SiC Power Stack Evaluation Kits help inverter designers save time and confusion in selecting individual components and can greatly benefit from a solution that is optimally pre-designed for their specific application.
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Resources - Power Stack Evaluation kits
Brochures and Flyers
09/09/2024
500 kVA - 1.7 kV SiC Power Stack Evaluation Kitpdf - 1.25 MB
Product data sheets
06/10/2024
150 kVA – 1.2 kV SiC Power Stack Evaluation Kitpdf - 1.54 MB