Technology and market trends for silicon wafers for power devices

Abstract

Semiconductor power device development is still accelerating. It's just a few years since IGBTs have been in production and now MOS controlled thyristors are following them. Smart power ICs are in production and different power device functions merged with logic on one piece of silicon is another fast growing branch of that industry. Efficient power generation and distribution as the volume and technology driver have been replaced by the efficient power conversion and usage at every point of use throughout the world. In the future the environmental concerns of industries will become increasingly stronger and will set new goals to engineers.