APC Electronics partners with Luminus Devices

APC-E’s team, led by power semiconductor veterans CEO Dr. W. Albert Gu and CTO Dumitru G. Sdrulla, have invested the past several years developing IP around unique SiC devices and gate drivers, and several of these products will be introduced to the market in 2025.  APC’s technologies serve to improve reliability, switching speed, and energy efficiency, and enable new system architectures in diverse applications such as industrial power supplies, wind turbines, energy storage, motor driving, data centres, server farms, HVAC, electric vehicles (EV) charging, high-speed rail, and photovoltaics.  APC-E and Luminus are targeting these high-power industries where the benefits of APC-E’s SiC field effect transistor (FET) devices can be leveraged to help the industry meet the rapidly growing global demand for electrical power driven largely by AI data centres and electric vehicles (EVs).

APC-E’s initial product launch includes 650V SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) with low forward voltage to enhance energy savings in power supplies across a wide range of applications.  Also included in the first wave of products are 1200V SiC SBDs with high surge capability and general-purpose industrial SiC MOSFETs. The second half of 2025 will bring unique products such as SiC MOSFETs with high switching speeds and matched isolated gate drivers and electrically isolated packages to enable more efficient thermal system solutions.

Mark Pugh, CEO of Luminus Devices, adds: “Our partnership with APC-E brings value to our customers that will expand widely in the coming years as they will see the unique, elegant solutions that APC-E has been developing.  While the power grid struggles to keep up with growing demand from power-hungry AI data centres and EVs, the APC-E product line enables new levels of efficiency to help the industry bridge gaps and reduce waste.”