fundamentals about SiC
A technical report published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, demonstrated that the switching loss of SiC MOSFET can be completely eliminated under some control strategies. The study was conducted by Prof. Alex Q. Huang’s group at University of Texas at Austin and Prof. Bo Zhang’s group at University of Electronic Science and Technology
People would think of GaN (gallium nitride) when talking about high frequency or very high frequency switching. However, a study published by scientists from Stanford University showed that SiC can also be extremely fast. The scientists demonstrated that DC-RF efficiency higher than 86% can be realized with a 17MHz class E inverter using SiC
Travel further with less electricity SiC power devices have long been considered a perfect fit to electric vehicles (EVs). Toyota is the first to start road trials using SiC MOSFETs to drive traction motor in 2015. Toyota Starts Road Trials of EVs with Silicon Carbide Devices Later, Honda’s fuel cell vehicles Clarity became the first
