With  Govt of India (Ministry of Electronics & IT) giving another call for an Expression of Interest for Semiconductor Fab, there is a keen interest in select players for exploring a WBG semiconductor fab. On behalf of Applied Materials and ELCINA, I  have been conducting a series of Semiconductor Manufacturing workshops addressing Government and Industry Stakeholders and covering a range of topics from CMOS Silicon technologies, to Advanced Packaging and ATMP at the backend and , recently , the Wide Band Gap Semiconductors. Wide-Band Gap Semiconductors are expected to be a few Bln $ opportunity by servicing applications in Power electronics and RF devices with their promise of bringing an overall system size reduction at given or better performance levels. With GaN based chargers entering mainstream consumer market radar in 2019-20, there is a rapid increase in GaN revenue! Combined SiC and GaN power devices market is around $800mln – and expected to cross $2bln by 2024! As shared in the image below, the GaN chargers can deliver functional advantages like significant ( ~50%) size reduction, better thermal properties at given breakdown voltages. While SiC devices are ideal for voltage levels from 600V and above, GaN devices can play between … Continue reading Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors – An Opportunity for India?