US Technology Center to Combat Blackouts with SiC

Compound Semiconductor News, 21 Jun 2005 The National Center for Reliable Electrical Power will develop solid-state electronics based on SiC to avert serious blackouts of the US power grid. Engineers at the University of Arkansas have received $1 million from the US government to help set up a technology center that will develop SiC chips to upgrade the country’s electrical power grid. Read more