IKERLAN

A leading knowledge transfer centre providing competitive value to companies.

IKERLAN is a leading knowledge transfer technological centre providing competitive value to companies.

We seek for excellence in R&D&i, thanks to the continuous adaptation to the needs of our customers and the proximity with the business reality. Faithful to our mission, we have been working daily since 1974 to develop solutions that allow our customers to become more and more competitive. We are a cooperative member of the MONDRAGON Company and we are connected to IK4 Research Alliance.

Thanks to a unique cooperation model, which combines technology transfer activities, internal research and training of highly qualified personnel, IKERLAN is currently the trusted technological partner of major companies in the country. To meet our goal, we are structured in three technological specialisation units:

  • ELECTRONICS, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
  • ENERGY AND POWER ELECTRONICS
  • ADVANCED MANUFACTURING

IKERLAN is a centre that is dynamic and open to the world. We are an agent credited by the Basque Network of Science, technology and Innovation, and we have a major cooperation network integrated by renowned European centres and universities, with which we conduct activities of research and training of researchers.

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IKERLAN S COOP

20500
Spain
www.ikerlan.es

Role

We are WP6 leader (GaN RF and Power Applications), and we contribute in the task 6.2.2 (Battery Charger for PHEV/EV) and in the task 5.4.1 (Degradation mechanisms in application conditions, SOA and switching failures).

Key Contribution

The main objective of IKERLAN is to develop of a 3.6kW wireless battery charger demonstrator for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEV/EV) based on the GaN devices developed within the project.