Record-breaking, ultrafast device to protect the grid
Luke Yates, left, a Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineer, passes Jack Flicker, a grid resiliency expert, a gallium nitride wafer with an array of diodes that can shunt a record-breaking 6,400 volts of electricity within a few billionths of a second – a significant step towards protecting the nation’s electric grid from an electromagnetic pulse.
Learn more at bit.ly/3q8Vpyi
Photo by Rebecca Gustaf
Record-breaking, ultrafast device to protect the grid
Luke Yates, left, a Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineer, passes Jack Flicker, a grid resiliency expert, a gallium nitride wafer with an array of diodes that can shunt a record-breaking 6,400 volts of electricity within a few billionths of a second – a significant step towards protecting the nation’s electric grid from an electromagnetic pulse.
Learn more at bit.ly/3q8Vpyi
Photo by Rebecca Gustaf