The next generation of power systems for Electric Vehicles, Solar Power & Rail equipment are defining new challenges for the power semiconductor industry.
The efficiency of a thermal management system can be considered to be a measure of how well the system conducts heat away from the source(s) to the outside world.
Since the early sixties, Silicon has been used as a semiconductor “switch” and the quest for higher switching frequencies, greater power densities, higher blocking voltages, lower losses, increased operating temperatures etc.
IGBT’s (Isolated Gate Bipolar Transistors), in common with all power semiconductor devices, are not 100% efficient and most of the “lost” power manifests itself
