tag: SiC

Fast-Charging Technology: The Key To Speeding Electric Vehicle Adoption
By Wolfspeed, a Cree Company - 18 Mar, 2020 - Comments: 0

As the EV market continues to grow and expand, the demand for fast chargers will continue to soar, and the space, efficiency, and system cost gains provided by SiC in various applications will become an increasingly important advantage. Click here to read more. » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Feb. 25
By Mark LaPedus - 25 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

Diamond finFETs HRL Laboratories has made new and significant progress to develop diamond finFETs. HRL, a joint R&D venture between Boeing and General Motors, has developed a new ohmic regrowth technique for diamond FETs. This in turn could pave the way towards commercial diamond FETs. Applications include spacecraft, satellites and systems with extreme temperatures. Still in R&D, diamo... » read more

How Silicon Carbide Is Improving Energy Efficiency & Lowering Costs In Industrial Applications
By Guy Moxey - 24 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

Industrial applications such as server power supplies, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), and motor drives consume a significant portion of the world’s power. Thus, any increase in the efficiency of any end user power system will substantially reduce a company’s operating costs. Combined with greater power density and better thermal performance, the demand for high-efficiency power suppl... » read more

MOCVD Vendors Eye New Apps
By Mark LaPedus - 20 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

Several equipment makers are developing or ramping up new metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems in the market, hoping to capture the next wave of growth applications in the arena. Competition is fierce among the various MOCVD equipment suppliers in the market, namely Aixtron, AMEC and Veeco. In addition, MOCVD equipment suppliers are looking for renewed growth in 2020, but b... » read more

Meeting Commercial Demands With XM3 Module Platform
By Wolfspeed, a Cree Company - 20 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

While silicon carbide (SiC) is still considered a relatively new material in the semiconductor market, it is now used in power circuitry that supports our everyday lifestyle — from the data centers that deliver our emails, to solar power grids that provide energy to offices and homes, to electric cars and trains we use to commute, and in factory equipment and robots that manufacture the goods... » read more

GaN on SiC: The Only Viable Long-Term Solution for 5G
By Wolfspeed, a Cree Company - 22 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

The 5G wave that’s been building for many years will finally come to shore in 2019. Early (but extremely limited) service rollouts will gain much fanfare and the first round of 5G-enabled devices will begin to hit markets. Wider commercial deployments, however, are still off in the distance and will be a slow but growing wave from 2020 to 2025. CCS Insight predicts 1 billion 5G users globally... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Dec. 31
By Mark LaPedus - 31 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 0

GaN-on-SOI power semis At the recent IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Imec and KU Leuven presented a paper on a gallium-nitride (GaN) on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for use in developing GaN power devices. With GaN-on-SOI technology, researchers have developed a 200-volt GaN power semiconductor device with an integrated driver and fast switching performance. ... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Dec. 23
By Mark LaPedus - 23 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 0

Gallium oxide transistors At the recent IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Cornell University and Hosei University presented a paper on a gallium oxide vertical transistor with a record breakdown voltage. Crystalline beta gallium oxide is a promising wide bandgap semiconductor material, which is used for power semiconductor applications. Gallium oxide has a large bandgap of... » read more

Where Technology Breakthroughs Are Needed
By Mark LaPedus - 23 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 2

After years of delays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is finally in production at the 7nm logic node with 5nm in the works. EUV, a next-generation lithography technology, certainly will help chipmakers migrate to the next nodes. But EUV doesn’t solve every problem. Nor does it address all challenges in the semiconductor industry. Not by a long shot. To be sure, the industry needs... » read more

Replenishing The Grid With A SiC-Based Bi-Directional On-Board Charger
By Wolfspeed, a Cree Company - 16 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 0

Range anxiety and charger availability have long been the main hurdles to the adoption of electric vehicles. But even as car makers have demonstrated their batteries can go longer distances and charging stations have proliferated, challenges with EV charging remain as well as opportunities to load balance power grids. The migration to electric vehicles also means looking at how they can bett... » read more

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