Silicon Carbide (SiC)

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...

A 20-A gate driver developed by Texas Instruments shines when it’s paired with SiC MOSFETs in electric vehicles.

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...

Volkswagen, the world’s largest automaker, is the latest with plans to use a new class of power electronics based on silicon carbide in its EVs.

A new family of high-performance 1700-V SiC power devices from onsemi targets renewable-powered electric grids.

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...

A representative from onsemi walks us through the silicon-carbide (SiC) manufacturing process, from powder to parts.

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 ...

The head of Infineon’s silicon-carbide business said some customers don’t want to talk about silicon at all anymore.

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...