PRESENTATION
SiC: The Trusted Partner and Growth Engine for the High-Power Conversion Industry
In this golden era of power semiconductors, SiC has established itself as a viable alternative to Si thanks to its orders of magnitude improvements in the key figures of merit, field proven quality/reliability and a reasonable component cost premium that enables substantial cost/Ampere savings at the system level. With industry trends toward more aggressive system cost/performance targets, the SiC industry continues to deliver advancing new technology nodes and more modern manufacturing from increased wafer diameter. In the other industry trend to replace conventional electromechanical solutions, SiC emerges as the power semiconductor of choice for first implementations of smart solid-state solutions with increased functionality. This presentation highlights onsemi’s role as a valued partner of SiC solutions to catalyze these transformations.
Mrinal K. Das
onsemi
Dr. Mrinal K. Das is the Senior Director of Technical Marketing at onsemi’s Power Solutions Group – SiC Power Division. His primary responsibility is the strategic alignment of onsemi’s SiC technologies with the needs of the power conversion market. He has been at the leading edge of SiC technology for the past three decades beginning with his graduate studies on SiC MOSFETs at Purdue University followed by industry roles in technology and business at Cree/Wolfspeed, Texas Instruments, and Sanan IC previously. He completed B.S.E.E. and B.A. degrees with Honors from The University of Texas at Austin. He also completed M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. Dr. Das is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the inventor of over 40 registered patents.