Five power trends for 2023
5 The resurgence of silicon
Silicon is fighting back in power designs over the insurgent wide bandgap technologies of gallium nitride and silicon carbide. 1700V IGBTs will roll out for high volume, low cost power designs in renewable energy
4 GaN and the death of the power adaptor
GaN is driving down the size of power adaptors and coupled with USB Power Delivery can provide the efficiencies needed to integrate into plug sockets. Power adaptors will increasingly become commodity items and then fade away as the focus changes to USB C sockets in every plug
- GaN power semiconductor 2023 predictions
- Victim-blaming for vampire devices is no way to energy efficiency
3 SiC drives electric vehicles
Silicon Carbide will continue to drive into the electric vehicle market, with new capacity coming online
2 Solid State batteries
Lithium ion batteries with liquid electrolytes are the high volume market for 2023, but the battle for the future is in solid state technologies, with multiple battery cells coming to market
- ProLogium returns to Paris with first solid state silicon battery
- Solid state battery cell pilot line aims for production in 2023
1 Fusion power
Commercial work is starting on fusion reactors, whether laser initiated or magnetically constrained. They won’t be online in 2023 but the industry is now taking off
Nuclear fusion net energy gain breakthrough confirmed by DoE
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