Integrated Computational Materials, Process and Product Engineering – IC-MPPE 2022

Power transistors based on wide band gap semiconductors have become commercially available in recent years. In the case of power conversion for e-mobility, silicon carbide (SiC) power transistors are a serious competitor to established silicon technology due to their low on-state resistance at high breakdown voltage. However, raw SiC wafer cost is a key cost driver and currently limits its...

In this talk, the evolution of hybrid printed electronics for flexibles and wearables applications will be reviewed. Hybrid integration leverages the strengths of flexible and printed electronics to manufacture compliant and large-area electronics and silicon-based technologies for computation and signal communication. Here we will address the state-of-the-art ultra-thin-chip (UTC) development...

Lithium (Li)-ion based batteries are one of the most used systems in decentralized storage systems, e-mobility or mobile electronic devices etc. However, an essential problem of state-of-the-art cells concerns the fast fading of the capacity during electrochemical cycling. The use of silicon (Si) as an active material in the anode provide promising prospects. The understanding of the...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is based on a network of trillions of electronic components such as sensors and actuators, which must communicate with one another and perform intelligent action on the environment. Autonomous, wireless operation is the key enabling factor for most IoT applications, which poses significant challenges for the energy supply of such devices. In many cases, in fact,...