What’s the State of the Industry for Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors?

Aug. 6, 2024

Wolfspeed’s Guy Moxey discusses the present and possible future for WBG semiconductors, as well as the company’s line of SiC devices.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Electronic Design

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TechXchange: Silicon Carbide (SiC)

Transportation and industry logistics account for a significant percentage of global carbon-dioxide emissions, primarily due to the burning of diesel and gasoline within internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles. Industrial e-mobility applications require reliable and efficient solutions to manage high voltages and currents

Addressing this need, wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors like Wolfspeed’s silicon-carbide (SiC) devices enable higher switching frequencies and greater power densities at much higher operating temperatures. In this podcast, we talk to Guy Moxey, the VP of Power Development at Wolfspeed, about where we are and where he thinks the WBG industry is going.

About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.