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SEMICONDUCTORS
Increasing Fault-
Analysis Accuracy in
Wide-Bandgap Power
Devices
By David Akerson, senior global market development manager of the
Semiconductor Business at Thermo Fisher Scientific
World energy consumption is expected to grow by nearly 50% between 2018 and 2050, with increased
demand for renewable energy, electrification of the automotive industry systems, and growing
demand for miniaturization and increased efficiency of devices in power management applications.
As the dimensions of semiconductor devices shrink and become more complex, defect localization
and failure analysis become more critical — and more challenging. With structural elements such
as high-density interconnects, wafer-level stacking, flexible electronics, and integral substrates,
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