Currently, twenty Taiwanese organizations have set up an alliance to develop wide bandgap electronics devices, including SiC and GaN compound semiconductors, for use in high-power electronics applications as electric cars and LEDs.

Based on the professions, alliance members are divided into groups to develop substrate materials, epitaxy wafers, devices, modules and inspection technologies. The alliance projects to roll out application modules of these wide bandgap semiconductors, whose electronic band gaps are larger than one or two electronvolts (eV).

They plan to complete packaging and test verifications on 600-volt devices by the end of this year.

Three years later, it will start developing application modules for use in electric cars, photovoltaic system, distributed energy system and inverter air conditioner.

Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), chipmaker Vanguard International Semiconductor Crop. (VISC) and LED maker Epistar joined the alliance.