Japan’s ROHM Semiconductor has developed 1200V 400A/600A-rated full-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules [BSM400D12P3G002/BSM600D12P3G001] - available in June (for samples and OEM quantities) - optimized for inverters and converters in ...
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Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have created a high-voltage and high-frequency silicon carbide (SiC) power switch that could cost much less than similarly rated SiC power switches, it is reckoned. The findings could ...
When the first SiC diode was launched in 2001, the industry questioned the future of the SiC power business: Will it grow? Is this a real business? But 15 years later, in 2016, people don't ask these questions anymore, since the SiC power ...
Tags: SiC Power, SiC device
In booth 9-242 at PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2016 in Nuremburg, Germany (10–12 May), Wolfspeed of Research Triangle Park, NC, USA — a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) power products including ...
Tags: Power Module, Gate Driver
When people think about wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials for power electronics applications, they usually think of gallium nitride (GaN) or silicon carbide (SiC) – which is not surprising, since SiC and GaN are currently the ...
Tags: Power Electronics, semiconductor, LED
Metrology and inspection equipment maker Lasertec Corp of Yokohama, Japan has launched SICA88, the latest model of its SiC wafer inspection and review systems. Featuring both surface and photoluminescence (PL) inspection capabilities, ...
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Accel-RF Instruments Corp of San Diego, CA, USA (which produces turn-key reliability and performance characterization test systems for compound semiconductors) says that it has 'unplugged' the RF SMART Fixture from its automated test ...
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According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
Tags: SiC Market, power electronics
Researchers in the USA have developed vertical Schottky and pn gallium nitride (GaN) diodes on silicon with performance comparable to devices grown on much more expensive substrates [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, ...
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II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA says that the Advanced Materials Division of its Performance Products Segment in Pine Brook, NJ, which supplies single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) substrates and CVD-grown polycrystalline diamond materials, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, II-VI, SiC substrates, SiC Wafer
Raytheon UK's semiconductor business unit in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK has embarked on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project, in conjunction with researchers at Newcastle University, to enhance the performance of silicon carbide ...
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK has secured £1m in funding to help it speed the development and commercialization of its silicon carbide (SiC)-on-silicon technology for power devices. The benefit of SiC-based devices is ...
Tags: SiC power converters SiC-on-silicon driver ICs, Electrical, Electronics
Integra Technologies Inc (ITI) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes high-power pulsed RF transistors, has developed two gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) devices - the IGN1011M675 and the IGN1011M1200 - targeted at the L-band ...
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Starting in late 2011, the power electronics downturn in 2012 was quite severe, exhibiting a 20% drop. The market suffered from the global economic downturn, combined with external factors such as China controlling what happened in some ...
Uncertainty hangs over the market for power devices made with the wide-bandgap semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC), due to a lack of clarity over whether and when electric vehicles will adopt them, according to the latest study on the SiC ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Electronics, Power Devices