High Current Silicon Carbide Schottky Diodes for Electric Drive Vehicle Power Electronics

The U.S. represents the world’s leading market for electric vehicles and is producing some of the most advanced plugin electric vehicles (PEV’s) available today. PEV’s are gaining widespread adoption every year, where 58% of all PEV sales occurred in 2013 and it is expected that by 2023, there will be ~3.2 million PEV’s on the road in the U.S. alone. To increase adoption and maintain this leadership, the EV Everywhere initiative has set the goal to make electric vehicles as affordable as gasoline vehicles by 2022. To meet the goals of the EV Everywhere initiative, the primary efforts lie in reducing costs