Hyundai Mobis from South Korea has collaborated over a two-year period on the development of power electronics semiconductors. The collaboration is based at the Electrum Laboratory, part of 'Silicon Carbide Valley'. Mobis has had developers on site in Sweden and worked closely with RISE experts on design and processing.
Hyundai Mobis is one of the world's leading companies in automotive and, like many other players in the segment, is making extensive investments in electrification. Power electronics and powertrains that can handle higher voltages without energy losses is a problem that many industries are struggling with.
Results from the collaboration are *confidential*, but Mobis has released a video about the experience of working in Swedish culture.
The combination of lab resources, expertise, and over thirty years of experience makes the innovation cluster ("Silicon Carbide Valley") around Electrum unique in the world.
We are happy that Mobis chose to work with us in power electronics - it has been a very educational collaboration.
Power Electronics
Power electronics is a rapidly advancing field due to the ongoing electrification - all types of energy conversion require electronics and various components such as transistors, rectifiers, inverters, and more.
Research
The research being conducted involves the development of materials, components, and processes.
RISE in various collaborations with South Korea - in sectors as maritime, automotive and semiconductors
RISE has a long history and several ongoing research project together with South Korea in variuous areas sucs assemiconductors and power electronics, automotive and maritime.
In 2024 a top management delegation from RISE visited Korea in order to strengthen future collaborations.
Among the participant entities were:
- Samsung Electronics
- Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차)
- KEIT 한국산업기술기획평가원
- and Sweden's ambassador in Korea.
Maritime Research at RISE: "Korea is the world's leading shipbuilding nation and for us it is great to be able to build on both our research collaborations and our commercial development assignments for our Korean partners. Together we are pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Today's ships are a connected and digitized product of modern society. At the same time, the fundamental question is how we can move goods from global manufacturing companies to consumers and businesses worldwide as energy efficiently as possible. For export-dependent nations like Korea and Sweden, it is imperative that we drive knowledge development in this area forward."
Smart Hardware at RISE: “30 Years of innovation excellence within wide-bandgap semiconductors and power electronics, makes Sweden a very attractive innovation partner to one of the worlds most successful semiconductor nation. And Sweden needs to invest further to keep our cutting-edge competence”, says Björn Samel, Vice President of the Smart Hardware Department at RISE.
