Extreme Environments - Monthly FG
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
https://lsic-wiki.jhuapl.edu/display/EE
Venue: Virtual
Featured Speakers
Solid-state Rechargeable Batteries for Extreme Lunar Surface Environments, Speaker: Brian J. Elliott Ph.D., TDA Research, Inc & Topic: Single Event Burnout Hardened High-power Diamond Devices, Speaker: Ilya Ponomarev, Euclid Beamlabs, LLC
Ilya V. Ponomarev from Euclid will present on their Single Event Burnout Hardened High-power Quasi-lateral Diamond Transistor. Electrical power management designed for use in space missions require high-performance, high-voltage electronics capable of operating without damage in the natural galactic cosmic ray space radiation environment under severe temperature swings. Unfortunately, the adoption wide bandgap SiC and GaN power devices technology into space applications is hindered by their susceptibility to permanent degradation and catastrophic failure from single event effect heavy-ion exposure that cannot be shielded. This degradation occurs at <50% of the rated operating voltage, requiring operation of SiC and GaN transistors at derated voltages (often down to 25% of terrestrial rating). The problem in brining WBG technology into space successfully at these high voltages, even though they are very rad hard for total dose, they turned out to be very susceptible to single event burnout (SEB) that results in a localized high-current state after heavy ion-induced strike. Their team is developing a new quasi-lateral diamond transistor (QLDT) power MOSFET that will overcome current limitations by combining the inherent advantages of diamond material, SEB hardened transistor design with advanced 3D femtosecond laser writing capabilities of micrometer-scale conductive structure fabrication inside the diamond. QLDT design merges a 2D Hole Gas (2DHG) conductive channel and graphitized embedded connections. The targeted specifications are 1,200+ V voltage rating, 100+ A/cm2 current density with 1.0 Ohm-cm2 specific on-resistance (see Figure 1 for a design concept).
Brian Elliott from TDA Research, Inc. will present their recent success in making high energy density rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that operate in extreme temperature environments and that provide high specific energy when discharged at -40 °C to -60 C. They even provide some discharge capacity at -80 °C. The primary focus of the work presented at this talk will be on taking full advantage of existing electronics and discharging down to 55 °C with an eye toward even lower temperature in the future. Future science missions to the Lunar surface will require hardware, electronics and energy storage systems that can tolerate the extreme low temperatures of the Lunar night. Some missions will require continuous operation through the night and others will only need to tolerate it and wake up and operate at the Lunar dawn. The temperatures expected (about -180 °C at night, lower in craters, and up to +120 °C in the day) dictate that batteries and electronics currently must be housed in temperature regulated chambers kept between 0 °C and +40 °C. Automotive electronics are rated to -40 °C and military electronics are rated to -55 °C and it would be advantageous to have rechargeable batteries that could work at least to the same low temperature to minimize weight an volume dedicated to thermal management. In the future, even lower temperature electronics are envisioned and rechargeable batteries that can discharge at -60 °C, -80 °C or even -100 °C would be useful. Although lithium-ion batteries would still need to be charged at temperatures above -20 °C (preferably above 0 °C) to avoid irreversible capacity loss, this is generally not considered a problem for Lunar missions because the batteries are charged during the warmth of the day and there is enough capacity to survive the night and wake up once they are warmed back up by the Sun and recharged by the solar panels.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Time: 3 pm EST
Location: Virtual
Meeting Link:
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