Overview
Fraunhofer IISB specializes in wide-bandgap semiconductors and power electronics, operating the complete technological process chain for silicon carbide (SiC) from material to chip to module. The institute employs around 400 people across roughly 10,000 sqm of facilities. It gained independent Fraunhofer Institute status in 1993, having grown out of an Erlangen device-technology working group established in 1985, and moved into its current campus building in autumn 1994. Key facility details include: The facility is situated at Schottkystrasse 10, 91058 Erlangen, Germany. It focuses on SiC, Analog / Power. Production at this facility commenced in 1993.
Technology
About Fraunhofer Institute
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is Europe's largest applied research organization, with 75 institutes across Germany. Several institutes operate their own semiconductor cleanrooms and pilot production lines: ISIT (Itzehoe, power electronics & MEMS), IISB (Erlangen, SiC/wide-bandgap power electronics), IMS (Duisburg, 8-inch CMOS), and IPMS (Dresden, MOEMS/MEMS photonic microsystems).