EBV and Infineon: Bringing SiC to the market together

The industry no longer looks at silicon carbide (SiC) as it did just a few short years ago. In this special episode of Podcast4Engineers, EBV's Milan Ivkovic and Infineon's Peter Friedrichs discuss how the two companies have been working together to accelerate the adoption of SiC in a variety of applications.
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Is it possible to use SiC for Bluelight LED to substitude GaN which is under chinese monopol ?

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Congrats

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Actually I investaged what to find about Galliumnitrid and Siliciumcarbid as base material for LED production. Physics seems to show, that only GaN is suited to produce effective blue / white LED light devices. GaN can be substituted with SiC in a lot of power semiconductor applications. But not in Light bulbs. To enable an western rebuild of modern LED lightbulb production, the West must reestablish own and domestic Gallium extraction from Alumium ore etc.. The production of Aluminium and the extraction of "rare earth" materials are difficult, energy intensive and costley. China developed this technology. And China produces more than 20 times more electricity, sulfur acid etc. than Germany for example, which is needed for modern "rare earth" mining and refinement. So producing a LED bulb made in USA or Europe is a fairly challenging task. But the West is in the duty to redomestify its industrial abilities. If you search for themes like Gallium and Rare Earth you find some videos about western attempts to rebuild domestic mining capabilities. But it is in childhood stage. And it will be much more expensive than Chinas offers from LED lamps etc. And how to close this economic gap is beside technology a major problem for an reindustrialization of western nations.