Wolfspeed, A Cree Company, announced today that Gruppo PBM, a leader in industrial battery chargers, is using Wolfspeed SiC MOSFETs in its new HF9 battery charger family to enable higher efficiency and power density at a lower overall system cost.
Demand for safe, efficient, and fast-charging industrial batteries has increased exponentially along with the proliferation of power electronics. The HF9 product family is designed to provide the highest possible efficiency while achieving easy scalability for power ranging from six to 16 kilowatts. These benefits are made possible in part by Wolfspeed 1200V SiC MOSFET technology.
Based in Italy, Gruppo PBM specializes in rugged high-frequency battery chargers, dischargers, and testers. By using Wolfspeed SiC MOSFETs in its latest HF9 family, Gruppo PBM not only achieves improved efficiency, but also a reduction in component count, improving the overall reliability in the system by lowering the operating temperatures and—most importantly—reducing overall system cost.
Wolfspeed SiC MOSFETs are commercially available in 900V, 1200V, and 1700V versions in TO-247 and SMD package options. The newly released surface-mount package, specifically designed for high-voltage MOSFETs, has a small footprint with a wide creepage distance of seven millimeters between its drain and source. The new package also includes a separate driver-source connection, which reduces gate ringing and provides clean gate signals.
Wolfspeed, A Cree Company, is leading the innovation and commercialization of silicon carbide and gallium nitride, liberating designers to invent power and wireless systems for a responsible, energy-efficient future.
Wolfspeed’s wide bandgap semiconductor products for power and radio-frequency (RF) applications deliver new levels of performance through increased efficiency, higher switching frequency and reduced system size and weight for the transportation, industrial, energy and communications markets.
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