
2023 Speaker
Dr. Rainer Kaesmaier
Since 2018 Dr. Rainer Kaesmaier is Managing Director for the Global Product Group Semiconductors of Hitachi Energy, leading the semiconductor business with its global manufacturing and R&D footprint for the power semiconductor product portfolio which compromises GTOs, IGBTs, IGCTs, Thyristors, Diodes for market segments such as energy transmission & distribution, transportation & rail, renewable, industry and e-mobility. He is a semiconductor industry veteran having held various management and executive positions in the sector for more than 25 years, covering areas of global responsibility in business strategy and development, business transformation, technology and engineering, operations and production, R&D, as well as sales and marketing. After stations at Siemens, Infineon, Qimonda, and the European semiconductor manufacturer LFoundry, he assumed the responsibility for the global semiconductor business of Hitachi Energy. In addition to that, Rainer is since 2019 also member of the management board for Hitachi Energy Switzerland Ltd.
Power Semiconductors trends in eMobility from a broader power electronics perspective
The opportunities for WBG Power Semiconductors in automotive applications are recently widely discussed due to the immense growth potential of the new electric vehicle market. With the speed of market adoption, also the full supply chain needs to be developed.
This is not only the case within the semiconductor products supply from material – i.e. SiC epi substrates – to the chip and then to the module. It needs to be setup in the full industry value chain, from power generation via power transmission to the grid and charging infrastructure, then finally to the electric vehicle EV itself. This full industry value chain needs to be then differentiated depending on the final EV applications which have a wide variety of conditions to reflect: The volume driver is EV passenger cars, here already in a spread of technology requirements from high performance cars to standard models with less power needs. It becomes further differentiated, if we go up the EV types, e.g. in its intrinsic mass, from buses and trucks to electric locomotives.
The presentation will give an overview, how from a power electronics system provider view, the new power semiconductor technologies, i.e. SiC, drives the development of the new system concepts along the industry value chain applications due to the technological specific advantages of the new power semiconductor developments.

Hitachi Energy Switzerland Ltd
Hitachi Energy Ltd. – Semiconductors
We have one of the most diverse semiconductor portfolios that includes thyristors, diodes, GTOs, IGCTs, IGBTs and RoadPakTM modules, which are manufactured at our facilities in Lenzburg, Switzerland and Prague, Czech Republic. We have one of the most diverse semiconductor portfolios that includes thyristors, diodes, GTOs, IGCTs, MOSFETs and IGBTs, which are manufactured at our facilities in Lenzburg, Switzerland and Prague, Czech Republic. Our research team continues pushing the boundaries of what is possible, using silicon and silicon carbide (SiC) technology to innovate the next generation of power electronics devices. Our advanced semiconductor technology brings unprecedented control to HVDC transmission systems. We are the heart of traction converters for high speed trains, metros and diesel-electric locomotives. Pumps, fans, roller tables, hoist and winches found throughout industry rely on us, and the world is able to enjoy greener mobility because we power the next generation of e-vehicles.
Hitachi Energy Switzerland Ltd.
Semiconductors
Fabrikstrasse 3
CH-5600 Lenzburg, Switzerland
Phone: +41 58 586 14 19
Fax: +41 58 586 13 06
Email:
www.hitachienergy.com/semiconductors
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