Some benefits of membership in PowerAmerica include opportunities to:

  • • Grow your business through meeting and interacting with prospective customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders in several market segments related to power semiconductors

  • • Participate in PowerAmerica’s effort to promote the adoption of wide bandgap semiconductors and the systems that use them to the audience of engineers and executives in key supply chain companies

  • • Provide advice on ways future federal funding can be directed to accelerate the development of improved wide bandgap semiconductor devices, and their incorporation into products in a number of markets segments

  • • Compete, if eligible, for federal funding aimed at developing improved wide bandgap semiconductor devices, and their incorporation into products in a number of markets segments

  • • Participate in guiding workforce and education development programs aimed at improving the pipeline of talent needed by wide bandgap semiconductor companies and the supply chains in several markets that rely on such devices

Located at NC State University, PowerAmerica is working to make wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor technologies cost-competitive with the silicon-based power electronics. PowerAmerica is an industry-led consortia that is advancing the technology and applications of new power electronics based on SiC and GaN.  PowerAmerica is also known as the Next Generation Power Electronics National Manufacturing Innovation Institute.