Future Trend of Power Semiconductor Devices

Growing population and economy of this planet require us to build up a sustainable society system. In electric power equipment for the industrial applications and Auto motive applications, more energy-saving and more... [ view full abstract ]

Growing population and economy of this planet require us to build up a sustainable society system. In electric power equipment for the industrial applications and Auto motive applications, more energy-saving and more resource-saving, efficient systems must be developed. Power semiconductor devices are the key to develop more efficient electric power equipment. In Si IGBT, state-of-the-arts are the 7th generation (7G) standard IGBT, 1G RC-IGBT, and 2G RB-IGBT. The era of SiC devices are also starting these years. Those new devices increase the output power density per weight or per volume, reduce the consumption of natural resources, and increase the efficiency of electric power conversion systems. Especially the impacts of SiC devices are dramatic.