This year the jury has decided to give the SEMIKRON Innovation Award to Stephan Wirths and the SiC R&D group of Hitachi Energy Ltd. Semiconductors team led by Lars Knoll in Lenzburg, Switzerland for their innovation regarding ‘High-k SiC Power […]
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Engineering student at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg receives SEMIKRON award for the promotion of women
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Katharina Stich, student at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), is the first winner of the SEMIKRON Bachelor Women Award. SEMIKRON awards also go to outstanding electrical engineering and materials science students. The SEMIKRON Bachelor Women Award was presented for the first […]
SEMIKRON Introduces New SiC Portfolio, Increasing Efficiency and Power Density
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Equipped with the latest Silicon Carbide technology, SEMIKRON is now introducing a new SEMITOP E1/E2 portfolio. Focused on power density and efficiency, this new portfolio pairs fast switching Silicon Carbide with low inductance packages. While meeting multiple sourcing demands, the […]
SEMIKRON and Silicon Mobility announce collaboration into a 24V to 96V inverter platform for batteries powered vehicles up to 50KW
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SEMIKRON, a leading manufacturer of power electronics, and Silicon Mobility, a solution provider of digital control for electrified powertrain, today announced the availability of a 24V to 96V inverter platform for automotive battery powered vehicles and industrial off-road vehicles. The […]
SEMIKRON Foundation and ECPE honour Dr. Tobias Geyer with the Innovation Award 2021 while this year’s Young Engineer Award goes to Dr. Jakub Kucka
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This year the jury has decided to give the SEMIKRON Innovation Award to Dr. Tobias Geyer from ABB Medium-Voltage Drives, Switzerland to acknowledge his pioneering work in the field of Model Predictive Control awarding his innovation regarding ´Model Predictive Pulse […]
SEMIKRON Increasing Operations & Maintenance Portfolio
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The portfolio now covers wind and solar replacement IGBT stacks, used in: – ESS/Non-ESS/G8x wind turbines – CP Series Solar Inverters – Further models under development These products are available in the U.S. through our authorized distributors, WECS Renewables and […]
SemiSel 5 – SEMIKRON’s new selection tool for power semiconductors
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. With this tool, you can be sure to have selected the appropriate modules. Power electronic developers face the demands of greater efficiencies, more compact designs, and increased power density, while ensuring a short time-to-market and maintaining target budgets. The […]
The High-Power Standard in Traction, Renewables and Drives – SEMITRANS 20
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The SEMITRANS 20 overcomes the limits of conventional module concepts and provides a new design approach for inverters used in applications such as traction, industrial drives and grid infrastructure. Optimised for the traction and medium-voltage market, the SEMITRANS 20 is […]
3-Level Topologies for Wind Turbines – SEMITRANS 10
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In any new wind turbine developments, the primary objective is to reduce the cost of energy as well as to increase the output power. But this can’t happen without new technologies. One solution is to increase the voltage up to […]
IGBT Generation 7
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The generation 7 IGBTs represent the latest IGBT chip technology. This new generation is specifically designed to match the requirements of motor drive applications. The IGBTs come with a significantly lower forward voltage drop and deliver optimised switching performance. Thanks […]