Power Electronics: Technologies and Global Markets

Report Highlights

This Report:

• The global market for power electronics was worth $9.8 billion in 2007. This is expected to reach $10.2 billion by the end of 2008 and $17.7 billion in 2013, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.7%.
• The U.S. market generated $2.1 billion in 2007 and is expected to generate $2.2 billion in 2008. This should reach $3.9 billion in 2013, a CAGR of 12.1%.
• Power MOSFETs have the largest share of the power electronics components market, worth $4.8 billion in 2007. This is expected to reach $5.2 billion in 2008 and grow at a CAGR of 7.3% to reach $7.4 billion in 2013.

INTRODUCTION

STUDY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Power electronics comprises a well established but still evolving family of electronic components and systems that vastly improve the performance and energy-efficiency of electric powered devices from cell phones to subway cars. Over the past two decades improvements in material science have reduced the size of all types of power electronics, while, at the same time, improving every operational parameter. Today’s designers can draw on an expanding inventory of components and devices for managing tiny piezoelectric motors, to kilowatt-size stadium lighting, to multi-megawatt power line stabilizing systems. The use of power electronics to provide more precise and economical motion controls makes it possible for create smaller but more powerful devices. Power electronics control systems also are at the heart of the 21^st century’s first major advance in transport, the plug-in hybrid passenger car, and niche-market innovations such as the Segway Personal Transporter and the Taurus Electro electric-powered aircraft. As corporate and public policy planners begin to revise their economic forecasts to accommodate for the realities of permanently higher petroleum prices, the spotlight has rightly shifted to power electronics as a critical new energy management tool, in applications across the industrial spectrum. This is the first study of its type to assess the impact of power electronics on U.S. and global industries in this new energy environment.

• Generation, transmission, and distribution. Or, what in the past was considered the electric utility side of the business, and
• End-user consumption, which was traditionally divided into four groups of consumers: residential, industrial, commercial and transportation. To those four this study adds off-grid users, a fifth sector that in many ways owes its existence to the emergence of more capable and economical power electronics devices. 

• How power electronics components, devices and systems work. 
• Factors that drive the power electronics markets,
• Factors that limit the power electronics markets.
• The dollar value requirement for key power electronics components.
• The dollar value requirement application 

• Power diodes
• MOSFET
• Thyristors
• Insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTS) 

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