Most people are not interested in failure—quite the opposite, actually. But for Douglas DeVoto, who leads reliability and prognostics research for automotive power electronics within NREL’s power electronics and electric machines group, failure is the most fascinating part.
Since joining NREL in 2010, DeVoto has focused on how and why power electronics fail and what researchers can do to boost their performance and extend their lives. That work, his colleagues say, has been transformative for the power electronics field, which focuses on creating devices that “switch” power from one form to another for vehicles, the electrical grid, and other clean-energy applications.
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