A flagship of semiconductor research with international reach is emerging in Dresden. Fraunhofer IPMS and Fraunhofer IZM-ASSID are bundling their competences and establishing the Center for Advanced CMOS & Heterointegration Saxony. The center will offer the complete value chain in 300 mm microelectronics, a prerequisite for high-tech research for future technologies.

Compared to other power modules and devices like Power Diode and Thyristors, the Power Transistor market is one of the major parts of the semiconductor industry that serves a variety of applications. Let us look at the current market trends of Power Transistors in 2023 and list possible advancements in their high-power applications.

Electronic components are becoming smaller, more complex and more powerful – this calls for new solutions for joining them. An Empa team is developing nanostructured joining materials for the next generation of microelectronics and other demanding applications.

Over 100 representatives from 39 companies and 23 research institutions have met in Munich at the Campeon, headquarters of Infineon Technologies AG, for the kick-off of the European research initiative PowerizeD. They are focusing on intelligence in power electronics and thus want to contribute to the decarbonization of European society and the protection of our climate.

To enable designers of electric vehicle (EV) traction inverters to optimise the size, weight and efficiency ratios of their products so that vehicles can travel further distances between charges, electrical measurement technology specialist LEM has introduced a current sensor that is the smallest of its kind on the market.

Seddik Bacha, Scientific Director and Scientific Committee Chair of the Supergrid Architecture & Systems research program at the SuperGrid Institute, delivered a keynote address on HVDC grid challenges and opportunities at PCIM Digital Days 2021.

University of California San Diego engineers are developing low-cost, low-power wearable sensors that can be used to measure key vital signs for monitoring COVID-19.

Wolfspeed, Inc., a global specialist in Silicon Carbide technology and ZF, a global technology company enabling next generation mobility, today announced a strategic partnership that includes the creation of a joint innovation lab to drive advances in Silicon Carbide systems and devices for mobility, industrial and energy applications.

The technology group ZF will, from 2025, purchase silicon carbide devices from STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor specialist. Under the terms of the multi-year contract, ST will supply a volume of double-digit millions of silicon carbide devices to be integrated in ZF’s new modular inverter architecture going into series production in 2025. ZF will leverage ST’s vertically integrated silicon carbide manufacturing in Europe and Asia to secure customer orders in electromobility.

Analog Devices offers a wide variety of solutions for producing low noise power. Most of these solutions are designed to produce positive voltage rails, with fewer dedicated ICs for generating negative voltages. This can be particularly limiting when the negative voltage needs to power low noise devices, such as RF amplifiers, switches, and data converters.