Super Junction MOSFET Market Worth $2.20 Billion at an Estimated CAGR of 13.6% by 2020 – New Report by MarketsandMarkets

“Silicon Carbide Semiconductors & Electronics” has emerged as a prominent field with respect to technology due to its exceptional advantages over conventional “Silicon-based Semiconductors & Electronics”. SiC material improves the efficiency of a semiconductor device by more than 20% and also facilitates production and usage of devices with much smaller form factor.

Advanced features of silicon carbide useful for semiconductors are inherent radiation-resistance, high-temperature operating capacity, high voltage and power handling capacity, high power efficiency and flexibility to be used a substrate. Use of SiC in specifically the industrial, power, solar & wind sector (for power applications) also enables smaller heat sink, passive, and magnetic nature in system designs. SiC electronics also find applications in electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, rail transportation, power supply units, photovoltaic applications, converters & inverters, and many more. Over the next ten years, Silicon Carbide will become a part of mass manufacturing in the Semiconductors & Electronics industry. The other major sectors (other than power semiconductors) where SiC has scope in the semiconductor industry are opto-semiconductors (LEDs, Laser Diodes and Lighting) and high-temperature semiconductors (extreme temperature & rad-hard environment specific).

Silicon Carbide (SiC) has become the choice for most of the next generation power semiconductor devices and high-temperature semiconductor devices and is quickly replacing the existing silicon technology. The various properties of silicon carbide such as wider band gap, larger critical electric field, and higher thermal conductivity let the SiC devices operate at higher temperatures and higher voltages offering higher power density and higher current density than the pure Si devices. These properties allow the SiC discretes such as Schottky diodes, MOSFETs, and the other advanced transistors to operate at much higher voltage levels, which are difficult for the counterpart Si devices. The SiC devices also help in reducing the conduction and switching losses, thereby offering higher efficiency in electronic systems.

Over the past decade, research was carried out on a massive scale to develop SiC-based discretes (MOSFETs & various types in them, IGBTs, diodes & rectifiers, thyristors, and other FETs) and ICs that have advanced and sophisticated characteristics and offer better flexibility for use in several power applications. With such promising futures, the SiC semiconductor devices market is expected to grow robustly at a high CAGR of 37.67% from 2012 to 2022. The SiC market’s competitive landscape had only a handful of players in the beginning of the previous decade, but it quickly emerged into a vast network with more than forty key players combining both - materials & devices. Currently, the overall SiC power semiconductors market accounts for less than 1% of the total power semiconductors market (currently at $34 billion including power discretes and power ICs), but over the next ten years, the entire base for power semiconductors & electronics players is expected to penetrate this new value chain, thereby rapidly increasing the percentage share.

This report defines and segments the global SiC Semiconductor market with analysis and forecasting of the revenues and volumes for the overall market and all its sub segments. This report mainly focuses on three major aspects – the Market Overview (Landscape), the Market Analysis (Dynamics) and the Market Classification (Segmentation). Extensive and detailed classification of the SiC semiconductor devices market is done in this report by technology, products, devices, application and geography. Since the report mainly covers the SiC semiconductor market whose parent market is the global semiconductor market, the report also includes various aspects related to the overall semiconductor industry in several instances throughout the report in various chapters. A comparison of various aspects, of each market segment with its parent market (for example, SiC power semiconductors with overall power semiconductors) is done at every possible level to give an idea about the total addressable markets for each market segment and the market penetrations.

This report is focused on giving a complete bird’s eye-view of the upcoming industry with regards to SiC semiconductor market with highly detailed market segmentations, combined with high level qualitative analysis at each and every aspect of the classifications done by technology, polymer types, substrate technology, technology (process) node, product & device types, applications, and geography. All the numbers, both revenue & volumes, at every level of detail are forecasted till 2022 to give a glimpse of the potential revenue base in the SiC industry and market. The report also gives the market dynamics by identifying the major driving and restraining factors for the global market with analysis of trends, opportunities, winning imperatives, and burning issues along with porter’s five force analysis of the SiC semiconductor devices market.

Scope of the report:

-The scope of this report includes only the market pertaining to the core semiconductor devices manufactured using Silicon Carbide. Thus, it only comprises the market of discrete devices and ICs. For the materials market mentioned in this report, only the raw material market of silicon carbide is considered. The market statistics of the material market mentioned throughout this report only covers the raw material, not the revenue of wafers at any stage of several industry processes in the supply chain. An illustrative diagram of the SiC semiconductor monetary chain, showing the clear view of the markets considered and analyzed is given in the report.

-In this report, the global SiC semiconductor devices market and industry is fully covered and segmented into/by the following categories and aspects:

-Value Chain & Industry Segments: SiC semiconductor industry value chain, raw material vendors, EDA & design tool vendors, IP vendors, foundry vendors, fabless vendors, fab vendors, Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs), Original Device Manufacturers (ODMs), Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), wafer equipment manufacturers, Assembly, Testing & Packaging (ATP) players with industry dynamics and analysis in detail

-Supply Chain & Market Life Cycle: SiC semiconductor industry supply chain, upstream chain, extraction of silicon carbide, purification & refining, etching & doping, wafer coating & manufacturing, downstream chain, device fabrication, cutting & mounting, assembly & packaging, front-end, and back-end processes in both streams, product life cycle, epitaxial growth, device fabrication, testing & packaging and system integration with extensive analysis

-Overall Market: SiC semiconductor devices market, SiC semiconductor material market, overall semiconductor devices market, overall semiconductor material market, overall SiC material market

-Market by Technology: Market by SiC polymer types in devices, Market by Semiconductor substrate & epitaxy materials in devices

-Market by SiC Polymer Types: 3C-SiC semiconductor devices, 4H-SiC semiconductor devices, and 6H-SiC semiconductor devices

-Market by Semiconductor materials in devices: IV-IV SiC Semiconductor devices including SiC & silicon, SiC & sapphire, SiC & graphene, SiC & graphite-based devices and III-V SiC semiconductor devices including SiC & GaN, SiC & AlN-based devices along with composite materials-based SiC devices and alloy materials-based SiC devices

-Market by Products: SiC power semiconductor devices, SiC opto-semiconductor devices, and SiC high-temperature semiconductor devices

-SiC Power Semiconductor Devices Market by Device Type: SiC power discretes market including SiC-based power MOSFETs & similar discretes, power IGBTs, power diodes & rectifiers, power thyristors and other power discretes; SiC power IC market

-SiC Power Semiconductor Devices Market by Technology (Process) Node: 350 nm, 250 nm, 180 nm, 150 nm, 130 nm, 90 nm, 65 nm, 40 nm, 32 nm, 28 nm, 22 nm and (expected post 2015) 14 nm based SiC power semiconductor devices

-Market by Application: Computers sector, ICT sector, Consumer Electronics sector, Automotive sector, Industrial, Power, Solar & Wind sector, Military, Defense & Aerospace sector, Medical sector and others

-Application markets in Computers sector: computer hardware power modules, UPS systems

-Application markets in ICT sector: Signal amplifiers & switching systems, wireless application devices, wired communication devices, satellite communication applications, RADAR applications, RF applications

-Application markets in Consumer Electronics sector: inverters in consumer applications, LED lights in consumer applications, switch mode consumer power supply systems

-Application markets in Automotive sector: electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, automotive braking systems, automotive motor drives

-Application markets in Industrial, Power, Solar & Wind sector: smart grid power systems, wind turbines and wind power systems, power factor correction (PFC) systems, photovoltaic inverters, solar panels, industrial motor drives, commercial motor drives, high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems, electro-mechanical computing system, high temperature electronics & sensors

-Application Markets in Military, Defense & Aerospace sector: combat vehicles, ships & vessels, microwave-radiation applications, radiation-hard electronics

-Application Markets in Medical sector: implantable medical devices, bio-medical electronics

-Market by Geography: Devices market by North America, Europe, Japan, Asia-Pacific (Excluding Japan), and Rest of the Word (including South America, Middle East and Africa); material market by China, and Rest of the World (includes all the geographies except China)

-Market’s Competitive Landscape: Overall market overview, device manufacturers, raw material suppliers, wafer & wafer equipment vendors, market share analysis, market share rankings, competitive situation & trends such as agreements, technology licenses, partnerships, collaborations and new product launchs, JVs, M&Aes.

Key Take-aways:

-Global Silicon Carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices market statistics with detailed classifications and split-ups by revenue and volumes

-Global SiC overall and semiconductor material market statistics and classification by geography

-Analysis of the high growth technologies and market segments related to SiC and their impacts on the SiC semiconductor devices market

-Identification of the major driving factors and inhibitors, burning issues, and winning imperatives and impact analysis of these market dynamics along with their impact in the short, medium, and long term landscapes

-Illustrative and detailed segmentation of the SiC semiconductor devices market by major end-user verticals and application segments in them

-Extensively detailed segmentation of the SiC power semiconductors, with market penetrations and total addressable markets

-Growth factors and dynamics of various types of market segments of the global SiC semiconductor market

-Illustrative segmentation, analysis, and forecasts of the major geographical markets to give an overall view of the market’s geographical landscape

-Competitive intelligence from the company profiles, competitive landscape, and market share analysis, revenue-growth strategies from the company revenue statistics

-Complete market and technology roadmap, market penetrations, comparisons with various other related markets and competing technologies

-The future of the SiC semiconductor industry from both, technical and market-oriented perspectives

-The global consumption of SiC semiconductors in several application segments and expected consumptions for the next ten years

-Complete value chain landscape, industry segments & value chain analysis of the global SiC industry, with special focus on SiC raw material suppliers and SiC semiconductor device manufacturers

-Complete supply chain, segmentation & analysis of the SiC industry, in both upstream & downstream sectors (of Electronics & Semiconductors) with detailed analysis on the front-end and back-end processes in both the streams.