{"id":2156,"date":"2016-10-11T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2156"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:19","slug":"poweramerica-member-monolith-announces-1200v-sic-diode-samples","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/poweramerica-member-monolith-announces-1200v-sic-diode-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerAmerica Member Monolith Announces 1200V SiC Diode Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monolithsemi.com\/\">Monolith Semiconductor<\/a>, Texas-based startup and PowerAmerica member, has announced the availability of engineering samples of 1200V, 5A and 10A SiC Schottky diodes in TO-220 packaging. The diodes, which reduce losses by more than 50 percent compared to silicon diodes, are manufactured at X-Fab Texas\u2019 150mm SiC foundry.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, the collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and PowerAmerica has been key in achieving this milestone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDOE and PowerAmerica have taken the baton and supported XFab to create a center of excellence in SiC manufacturing in the U.S.,\u201d said Monolith CEO Sujit Banerjee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Funding from DOE and PowerAmerica enabled XFab, a former silicon foundry, to reconfigure its equipment in order to fabricate silicon carbide power electronic devices.\u00a0 Today, more than six U.S. companies are using the new capability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monolithsemi.com\/2016_10_06-Monolith-1200V-10A-Diode-Eng-Samples.pdf\">Read Monolith\u2019s full press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monolith Semiconductor, Texas-based startup and PowerAmerica member, has announced the availability of engineering samples of 1200V, 5A and 10A SiC Schottky diodes in TO-220 packaging. The diodes, which reduce losses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}