ON Semiconductor of Phoenix, AZ, USA – which supplies power management, analog, sensors, logic, timing, connectivity, discrete, system-on-chip (SoC) and custom devices – has extended its silicon carbide (SiC) diode portfolio by ...
“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, ...
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 ...
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Energized by demand from hybrid and electric vehicles, power supplies and photovoltaic (PV) inverters, the emerging global market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors will rise from just $210m in 2015 to ...
Tags: Semiconductor Market, GaN, SiC
Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan says that it has developed gallium nitride (GaN) diodes that can not only operate at a high current of 7.6kA/cm2 - four times greater than that tolerated by conventional silicon carbide (SiC) diodes with a ...
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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
At PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), silicon carbide (SiC)-based power product maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA — exhibiting with distributor partner MEV Elektronik Service GmbH ...
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Using a Camry hybrid prototype and a fuel cell bus, Tokyo-based Toyota Motor Corporation aims this year to conduct tests on the streets of Japan that will evaluate the performance of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors, which could ...
ROHM Semiconductor has extended its European distribution agreement with Rutronik to a worldwide franchise for the entire ROHM products portfolio. Rutronik has been marketing ROHM devices since 1999. For the second consecutive year, ...
Tags: dynamic market segments, management solutions, Electrical
STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveiled new automotive-qualified silicon carbide (SiC) diodes for on-board battery chargers (OBCs) in electric vehicles such as plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) that demand high power-handing capability ...
Tags: on-Board Battery Chargers, 650V SiC Diodes, Electrical
Wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) are best positioned to address emerging power electronics performance needs in electric vehicles (EVs), with SiC displacing silicon as early ...
Tags: Power electronics GaN SiC, Electric Vehicle, Electrical, Electronics
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has started shipping samples of new 1200V hybrid silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor modules for high-frequency switching applications. Featuring SiC diodes, the modules achieve high efficiency, ...
Tags: Mitsubishi Electric, SiC power modules, High-Frequency Switching
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has received an order for its railcar traction inverter with all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules (made with SiC transistors and SiC diodes), placed by Odakyu Electric Railway Co Ltd. This is the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched a railcar traction inverter system for 1500VDC catenaries that incorporates what is claimed to be the first all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules made with SiC transistors and SiC diodes. ...
Tags: Mitsubishi Electric SiC power modules SiC, Electrical, Electronics