Applying Diamond Foundry’s unprecedented single-crystal diamond wafer technology, we are glad to announce that our power electronics team has brought off a new high-power electric-car inverter, the DF Perseus.
Based on a novel architecture enabled by the unparalleled properties of DF’s single-crystal diamond wafer technology, including its extreme thermal conductivity and electrical insulation, the first DF Perseus prototypes were completed and successfully tested in tier-1 automotive OEM laboratories.
The new inverter is six times more compact than Tesla 3’s, the industry’s most scaled-down, while exceeding its performance and efficiency.
Power electronics is the technological core of an electric car, controlling how energy in batteries connects with the electric engine and the charge station. How far you can drive, how large batteries you need, and what the consumption is depends critically on the power-electronics chips used.
“We believe this architecture will be the new standard in electric cars going forward. Its advantages are overwhelming.”
Martin Roscheisen, our CEO
Read more about how electric-car power electronics has evolved from silicon to silicon carbide (SiC) and now diamond in The NY Times: “What’s Down the Road for Silicon? Meet the new materials overpowering the electric economy.”
