13Ultra‐High‐Voltage SiC Power Device

Yoshiyuki Yonezawa and Koji Nakayama

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba west, 16‐1 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305‐8569, Japan

13.1 Introduction

To reduce CO2 emissions as a countermeasure against global warming and to meet the increasing energy demand caused by the information explosion and the shift to electric vehicles, large scale introduction of renewable energy and energy storage is necessary. At the same time, energy‐saving technologies need to be improved to increase the efficiency of energy use. In addition, to control unstable renewable energy and improve energy resilience, there is a need to develop energy management technologies that combine the ...

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