“The SiC power business is concrete and real, with a promising outlook,” said Yole Développement in 2016. The trend has not changed in 2017, and the SiC industry is going even further as industrial players have increasing ...
Tags: SiC power, SiC devices
Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA has announced the availability of engineering samples of 1200V, 5A and 10A silicon carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes in a TO-220 package. Manufactured in the 150mm SiC foundry of X-FAB Texas, ...
Ireland's Tyndall National Institute (based at University College Cork) is leading the European consortium TOP-HIT (Transfer-print OPerations for Heterogeneous INtegration) to develop novel technology that will address the challenge of ...
In booth 1655 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach, CA, USA (20–24 March), Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA is demonstrating its fast-switching silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices
X-FAB Silicon Foundries of Erfurt, Germany - a mixed-signal IC, sensor and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry – has entered wide-bandgap semiconductor production by announcing the availability of silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET SiC Schottky barrier diodes SiC power devices
X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany - an analog/mixed-signal and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry - has announced what it claims is the first cost-efficient 180nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for automotive ...
Tags: X-FAB, SOI, electrical components
X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading More than Moore foundry, has announced the industry’s first cost-efficient 180nm SOI technology for automotive and industrial applications that need to operate in harsh environments. X-FAB's new ...
Tags: X-FAB, SOI technology, high-voltage devices, auto accessories
Exagan of Grenoble, France, a gallium nitride (GaN) technology start-up that enables smaller and more efficient electrical converters, has raised €5.7m in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN switching device
X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany and Exagan of Grenoble and Toulouse, France have entered into a joint development agreement to industrialize Exagan's GaN-on-silicon technology, begin producing high-speed power switching ...
Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in MEMs and LED manufacturing, and breakthroughs in silicon photonics and printed/flexible electronics. But what comes next? The ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
Alexander Duesener, v-p of worldwide field operations in EMEA for Cadence Design Systems believes chip designers have a crucial role in maintaining Europe’s strengths in wireless and automotive systems. The biggest challenge in ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Chip Design