Wolfspeed’s 2,300-V silicon-carbide (SiC) power modules sit at the heart of EPC Power’s utility-scale, string-style inverter for renewable-powered grids.
Explore the integration of silicon-carbide (SiC) technology and advanced circuit design to enhance the overall density and efficiency of power converters.
GaN and SiC lead the WBG semiconductor charge in reinventing power electronics design. Innoscience Europe’s Denis Marcon discusses the challenges and opportunities they unleash...
SiC power devices continue to gain popularity in electric powertrain system development, but achieving low loss in a small size has been difficult. ROHM confronts that challenge...
Wolfspeed’s SpeedVal Kit platform enables testing of SiC devices, gate drivers, and controls at real operating conditions, allowing design engineers to transition to wide-bandgap...
Keysight's solution measures wide-bandgap power semiconductor dynamic characteristics for discrete devices and power modules, including characteristics like turn-on, turn-off,...
Infineon Technologies and Schweizer Electronic are developing a solution to embed Infineon’s CoolSiC chips directly onto printed circuit boards. They believe this initiative will...
SiC MOSFETs help EV inverters deliver higher performance and efficiency, as well as smaller form factors, but they also bring design challenges to the table. This overview will...
The combination of STMicroelectronics’ SiC MOSFET technology and its ACEPACK DRIVE modules helps increase efficiency and maximize EV mileage range, as well as enables the use ...
Apex Microtechnology offers high-voltage, high current silicon-carbide (SiC) devices to drive advanced motors. The solutions are based on cost-effective, off-the-shelf, single...
This edition of PowerBites looks at innovative research into a salt-based battery that could “freeze” excess power for a long duration, as well as multiple SiC-based advances ...
Good switching power supplies must have high efficiency and high power density. The SiC MOSFET is one of the best solutions to replace silicon devices in these kinds of power ...
Traction inverters remain at the epicenter for innovations aimed at unlocking further EV efficiency and range gains. Thus, their higher-cost SiC power switches must be controlled...
STMicroelectronics’ latest silicon-carbide devices are optimized for applications including EV traction inverters, onboard chargers, dc-dc converters, and e-climate compressors...
Careful design focusing on reliability, fine-tuning of parameters like gate-oxide thickness, and rigorous FIT-rate testing are essential to meet efficiency demands.
Adopting transistors based on wide-bandgap (WBG) materials in some power-conversion system designs, rather than traditional power switches, can help minimize overall losses to...