CHARGED Electric Vehicles Magazine - Issue 29 JAN/FEB 2017

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Next-gen semiconductors Wolfspeed launches a new silicon carbide MOSFET for EV inverters By Christian Ruoff

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ide Bandgap (WBG) semiconductor technologies have attracted a lot of attention and research funding in the past decade. Both public and private institutions around the world have been obsessed with accelerating the evolution of WBG tech into commercial power electronics applications. What’s all the fuss about? WBG materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) can greatly improve power conversion efficiency.

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