This decade has seen the restructuring of the global semiconductor supply chain. Market forces such as the race for electric vehicles (EVs) and artificial intelligence (AI) have clashed with geopolitical
GaN-based power semiconductor devices are ideally suited for high-efficiency power converters due to their superior material properties [1]. GaN HEMTs have been incorporated into numerous commercial power supply designs, catering
Last December at Electronica, Shandong-based SICC surprised the world with the first 300mm SiC substrate. While 300mm for silicon wafers and analog power is old news (high voltage IGBT products
I am writing this after just getting home from the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2025). As usual, it was a great conference. The Georgia World Congress Center was
This year’s Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) hit its 40th anniversary, but that wasn’t the only notable milestone celebrated at the event. The IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) held a
In 2024, we generated about 30,000 TWh of electricity globally [1], and we used it in a broad spectrum of applications—residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation. With home and vehicle electrification,
There are numerous mass volume power applications where it is necessary to control the flow of bidirectional power, including electric vehicles (vehicle to grid, vehicle to home, and vehicle to
