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Poll: How Important Will Wide-band Gap Semiconductors Be to You in The Next 3 Years?

Wide-band gap semiconductors have characteristic properties between those of conventional semiconductors and insulators. They can operate operate at much higher voltages, frequencies, and temperatures than silicon semiconductors. These capabilities make it possible to reduce weight, volume, and life-cycle costs in a wide range of power applications. Wide-band gap semiconductors can offer high energy savings in industrial processing and consumer appliances, speed up the roll out of electric vehicles, and help integrate renewable energy onto the electric grid.

 

Poll Question: How important will wide-band gap semiconductors be to you in the next 3 years?

  • There is a very good chance these devices will end up in the electric vehicles that will drive us around.

    Maybe not quite so much in the next 3 years, but it is likely to be of increasing importance to everyone within the next few decades.

  • While much of the electronic world is moving to low power, our world is only becoming more power dependent.  We are looking to the electric motor to replace the internal combustion engine in vehicles.  Being able to rectify AC and switch DC at higher power levels in a reasonable package size is technological evolution.  Once it's prevalent in the market, we will act as though it has always been this way - and silicon semiconductors will go the way of the cat's whisker in the original crystal radios.