Qorvo launch Compact E1B packaged 1200V SiC Modules for Evs
Date: 08/03/2024
Qorvo launched four new 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) modules, including two half-bridge and two full-bridge configurations, housed in a compact E1B package. Featuring RDS(on) starting at 9.4m?, these power semiconductor devices offer high efficiency and performance targeting applications such as electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, energy storage, industrial power supplies, and solar power systems.
Qorvo's SiC modules feature a unique cascode configuration that minimizes RDS(on) and switching losses, enabling higher efficiency, especially in soft-switching applications. This technology allows for higher switching frequency operation, reducing solution size by utilizing smaller external components.
Leveraging silver-sinter die attach technology, these SiC modules achieve reduced thermal resistance, as low as 0.23 °C/W. The stacked die construction, found in the "SC" part numbers, further improves power cycling performance by 2X compared to similar SiC power modules available in the market.
Qorvo's SiC modules can replace multiple discrete SiC FETs, streamlining thermomechanical design and assembly. This allows customers to focus on the design, layout, and characterization of a single module, enhancing overall system reliability and efficiency.
"The modules in this new family can replace as many as four discrete SiC FETs, thus simplifying thermomechanical design as well as assembly. Our cascode technology also allows higher switching frequency operation, further reducing solution size by using smaller external components," said Ramanan Natarajan, director of product line marketing for Qorvo's SiC Power Products business. "For our customers, the high efficiency of these modules streamlines the power supply design process, so they can focus on the design, layout, assembly, characterization and qualification of one module as opposed to numerous discrete components."
The table below provides a snapshot of Qorvo's new 1200V SiC module family:
Qorvo's suite of powerful design tools like its FET-Jet Calculator and QSPICE software aid in product selection and performance simulation. For more information can be found at: www.qorvo.com/go/sic.
