Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Power Electronics

15Industrial Systems Using SiC Power Devices

Nando Kaminski

Universität Bremen, Institute for Electrical Drives, Power Electronics and Devices (IALB), Otto‐Hahn‐Allee, NW1, 28359 Bremen, Germany

15.1 Introduction

Based on its unique properties, SiC offers unparalleled opportunities for industrial electronics just the way it does for most medium‐ and high‐power applications. However, individual applications profit in individual ways, and some still existing drawbacks of SiC prevent its advantages from being fully exploited. In other words, the appraisal of potential benefits from SiC devices is necessarily a case‐to‐case judgement. Nevertheless, the exploitation of the SiC advantages goes along the same few lines for all applications, though ...