Driven by technology innovations, silicon-based power electronics will continue their domination of the fastest-growing and largest markets, allowing silicon to maintain an 87% market share, worth $20bn by 2024, and constraining ...
Since gallium nitride (GaN) materials can create much more efficient devices for electric power conversion in devices from cell phone chargers to hybrid electric vehicles, the market for GaN discrete components will grow to $1.1bn in 2024, ...
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
Driven by superior features and falling costs, the market for LED luminaires, or optimized permanent light fixtures, will grow more than 12-fold over the next decade – at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25% from $2bn currently ...
Tags: LED luminaires, package costs
The market for thermal management materials for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and power electronics will more than double from $1.8bn in 2013 to $4.8bn in 2020, according to new report 'Cooling Heats Up: Sizing the Opportunity for Conductive ...
Tags: LEDs Power electronics, Electrical, Electronics, LED
As LED lighting becomes an $80bn industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers that LEDs are made from will grow to $4bn in 2020, according to Lux Research. The vast majority of these epiwafers are currently gallium nitride ...
Tags: LEDs, Epiwafers, LED Lighting
The Lux Research Energy Electronics Intelligence service titled 'Cheaper, Brighter, Cooler: The Need for Cost Reduction Past the Package' states that the overall costs of the central LED package will have over 70% decline in another 10 ...
Tags: LED bulb, the Lux Research Energy Electronics Intelligence, BulbAmerica
Wide-bandgap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) offer far higher performance than traditional silicon but cost significantly more. However, by 2020 GaN costs will drop enough for it to become competitive based on ...
Tags: Bulk GaN, traditional silicon, gallium nitride, reckons market
Price of LED bulbs to halve to $11 in 2020 Cost has long been crucial for LEDs. However, the focus is now shifting from the package to the surrounding system. Specifically, innovations in areas such as thermal management, drivers and ...