Aehr announces a new customer and first order for the FOX-XP multi-wafer test and burn-in system for SiC production

To support the mass production of silicon carbide MOSFETs for electric cars, trucks, and train traction inverter modules, Aehr Test Systems has announced a new silicon carbide semiconductor customer and an initial order for a FOX-XP™ multi-wafer test and burn-in system, several WaferPak™ Contactors, a WaferPak Aligner, and a high-volume production support kit. Within the next two quarters, the turnkey system, which consists of the FOX-XP, WaferPak Contactors, and WaferPak Aligner, is anticipated to ship.

Additionally, Aehr and this new customer have agreed to a long-term supply arrangement that covers FOX-XP systems, WaferPaks, WaferPak Aligners, and maintenance. This new client is a multinational industrial corporation that produces semiconductors, especially power semiconductors.  The FOX-XP system is capable of functional testing and burn-in/cycling of integrated devices such as silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, silicon photonics as well as other optical devices, 2D and 3D sensors, flash memories, gallium nitride (GaN), magnetic sensors, microcontrollers, and other cutting-edge ICs in either wafer form factor, or with multiple DiePak™ Carriers (singular die/module test) configurations.

Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio holds a Ph. D. in Physics and is a Telecommunications Engineer. He has worked on various international projects in the field of gravitational waves research, designing a thermal compensation system (TCS) and data acquisition and control systems, and on others about x-ray microbeams in collaboration with Columbia University, high voltage systems and space technologies for communications and motor control with ESA/INFN. TCS has been applied to the Virgo and LIGO experiments, which detected gravitational waves for the first time and earned the Nobel Prize in 2017. Since 2007, he has been a reviewer for scientific publications for academics such as Microelectronics Journal and IEEE journals. Moreover, he has collaborated with different electronic industry companies and several Italian and English blogs and magazines, such as Electronics World, Elektor, Mouser, Automazione Industriale, Electronic Design, All About Circuits, Fare Elettronica, Elettronica Oggi, and PCB Magazine, as a technical writer/editor, specializing in several topics of electronics and technology. From 2015 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Firmware and Elettronica Open Source, which are technical blogs and magazines for the electronics industry. He participated in many conferences as a speaker of keynotes for different topics such as x-ray, space technologies, and power supplies. Maurizio enjoys writing and telling stories about Power Electronics, Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Automotive, IoT, Embedded, Energy, and Quantum Computing. Maurizio has been an AspenCore content editor since 2019. He is currently editor-in-chief of Power Electronics News and EEWeb and a correspondent for EE Times. He is the host of PowerUP, a podcast about power electronics, and the promoter and organizer of the PowerUP Virtual Conference, a summit where each year great speakers talk about the power electronics design trends. Moreover, he has contributed to a number of technical and scientific articles as well as a couple of Springer books on energy harvesting and data acquisition and control systems.

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