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VIDEO SEMICONDUCTORS

PowerUP Expo – Panel — The PowerUP Expo – Panel — Are You
Future of Energy GaN or SiC?

Power semiconductor manufacturers believe that The market is continuing its race towards a request
GaN- and SiC-based devices hold the key to address- for more power. And the industry, in general, is
ing the expansion of renewable energy. moving away from silicon in favor of wide bandgap
semiconductor materials.

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SiC, GaN: Mind the

Bandgap

By Anne-Francoise Pele, Editor-in-chief of EE Times Europe

In recent years, wide-bandgap (WBG) semicon- Power Electronics News: At Yole
ductors such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium Développement, you are part of the
nitride (GaN) have been receiving considerable semiconductor and emerging materials
PowerUp Expo – Panel – Motor The power of Silicon Carbide – attention. Both these compounds can sustain activity and cover SiC, GaN, gallium
Control Solutions for Any Power Interview to Anup Bhalla, VP of higher frequencies, higher voltages, and more arsenide, indium phosphide, as well as

Requirements Engineering at UnitedSiC complex electronics products than silicon. The emerging trends such as gallium oxide,
adoption of SiC and GaN power devices is now diamonds, and engineering substrates.
The challenges of motion control will revolve People are experiencing a revolution in how we undeniable, and questions are more related to the What are today’s trends and market
around the concept of the smart factory. The an- use electrical power. As the world moves away breadth of opportunities available for companies. opportunities for WBG semiconductors?
swer will most likely come with the complete opti- from fossil fuels towards a more renewable, en- Dogmus: E-mobility has become a mega-trend
mization and digitization of products and services. ergy-efficient, and electrified energy ecosystem. Ezgi Dogmus, technology & market analyst at Yole with significant impact on semiconductor and
Développement (Lyon, France), presents her anal- power electronics businesses. Over the years, we
FOR MORE INFORMATION > FOR MORE INFORMATION > ysis on the WBG market evolution and forecast have observed an accelerated development of
in specific emerging markets such as automotive vehicle electrification, which has been fostered
and consumer applications. by singular events such as the Tesla effect, the

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