Strongly driven by the electric-vehicle market, the global silicon carbide device market is growing with a compound annual growth rate of 34%. SiC applications are still limited by the underlying ...

A new technical paper titled “Semi-Supervised Learning with Wafer-Specific Augmentations for Wafer Defect Classification” was published by researchers at Korea University. “Semi-supervised learning ...

SiC is extensively used in microelectronic devices owing to its several unique properties. However, low yield and high cost of the SiC manufacturing process are the major challenges that must be ...

Despite silicon carbide’s (SiC) promise over conventional silicon for the design of next-generation power electronics devices, broad adoption of this high-performance compound semiconductor has been ...

TOKYO, Aug 1, 2019 - (JCN Newswire) - - Showa Denko (SDK; TSE:4004) has developed a second generation high-grade silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafer (HGE-2G) suitable for power semiconductors. SDK ...

Reducing defects on the wafer edge, bevel, and backside is becoming essential as the complexity of developing leading-edge chips continue to increase, and where a single flaw can have costly ...

The PureFocus 850 is very effective for wafer inspection and has been utilized with significant success for analysis of defect selective etching. The PureFocus 850 has allowed the multinational ...

Soaring silicon carbide (SiC) demand from electric vehicles (EV) is leading to a tight supply of 6-inch SiC wafers, of which the cost will unlikely go down. Abstract To raise SiC capacity while ...

Silicon carbide devices are displacing their incumbent silicon counterparts in several high-volume power applications. As SiC market share continues to grow, the industry is lifting the last barriers ...

Key to the world’s best electric vehicle power trains, silicon carbide chips are transitioning to larger, 200mm wafers which boost output to meet growing global demand Applied’s new 200mm CMP system ...