09/09/2008 12:42. “san Motor Co., Ltd. of Tokyo announced the development of a silicon carbide diode-based inverter for use in a vehicle. The company has reportedly” // Compound Semiconductors Online

08/09/2008 21:00. Inverters on electric-powered vehicles control the electricity coming from the power source, and their size has often set limitations on vehicle layout. The newly developed inverter uses SiC for the diodes - a semiconductor device used to control the flow of current in a single direction - and employs a new Nissan-developed heterojunction diode (HJD) structure (*1).

Together the SiC diode and HJD structure reduce the overall size and weight of the inverter and dramatically improve its reliability.

Previous silicon diodes used in electric-powered vehicles created power losses and required heat dissipation countermeasures. The newly developed SiC diode (*2) provides high power efficiency with improved heat resistance and reliability to create a high breakdown voltage, large capacity... // Compound Semiconductor

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First News Article: HULIQ, 06/09/2008 06:45