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Day 1
(LE1) The Ascent of GaN (LE2) Industrial Drives:
A New Horizon for Real
This Lecture/Tutorial is and Relevant Higher Efficiency
presented by Alex Lidow, CEO,
Efficient Power Conversion Industrial Drives Enabled by
After more than 13 years of mass production, Today's SiC
GaN-on-Si has gained widespread acceptance
as the successor to the aging silicon MOSFET This Lecture/Tutorial is presented
for voltage ranging between 40 V and 650 V. by Guy Moxey, Senior Director Power
What, therefore, are the variables controlling Products, Wolfspeed
the rate of growth of GaN power devices. 5% of all electricity generated is used to turn
We will dig into the experience, and lessons a motor so ensuring that the motor to drive
learned from the power MOSFET as well as system is highly efficient and optimised for
the recent experiences with GaN in applica- performance is key to ensuring better energy
tions ranging from DC-DC conversion... conversion. Regional and end equipment...
(LE3) Bidirectional SiC and (LE5) Panel Discussion about
GaN Switch Technology SiC & GaN Solutions: Recent
Developments and the Next
This Lecture/Tutorial is presented
by Dr. Victor Veliadis is Executive Challenges to Overcome
Director & CTO of PowerAmerica Panel Discussion with Industry
There are numerous mass volume power ap- Experts, moderated by EE Times
plications where it is necessary to control the Editor Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio
flow of bidirectional power. Today, monolithic The global wide-bandgap landscape has been
bidirectional SiC and GaN power semiconduc- marked by growth and increasing industrial
tor switches are not commercially available. acceptability. Companies are developing an
Instead, back-to-back (anti-series) connection extensive portfolio of devices that promise
schemes of unidirectional power devices are benefits in a variety of applications for in-
typically used, resulting in a 4X penalty in chip dustrial, automotive and consumer markets,
area and high cost. However, various... among others, as technology...
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