At a time when the energy-saving home appliance market is booming, STMicroelectronics launched an advanced 1600 V IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) - STGWA30IH160DF2 on July 16, 2025, bringing new solutions to the cost-effective energy-saving home appliance market.
Product Features: High Performance and Energy Saving
This IGBT device has many excellent features, which makes it perform well in high-power home appliance application scenarios. It has a rated breakdown voltage of 1600 V, which can effectively resist voltage surges and is particularly suitable for high-power home appliances that need to be used in parallel, such as induction cookers, microwave ovens, rice cookers, etc. At the same time, the device has a junction temperature characteristic of 175°C and an excellent thermal resistance coefficient, which can ensure efficient heat dissipation at a rated current of 30A, and can maintain long-term stable operation even in harsh working environments.
As the first 1600V IGBT in the second-generation IH series in ST's STPOWER portfolio, it uses advanced trench gate field stop (TGFS) technology. This technology enables the device to combine high breakdown voltage with low saturation voltage drop (typical value 1.77V@rated current), which can significantly reduce conduction losses. In addition, TGFS technology can effectively suppress the turn-off tail current and reduce turn-off energy loss. The matching anti-parallel diode has low voltage drop and soft recovery characteristics, which works together with the switching performance of the main transistor to improve the overall energy efficiency of resonant and soft switching topologies.
Market advantages: wide-band design and cost reduction
STGWA30IH160DF2 is suitable for quasi-resonant single-tube converter design with a wide frequency range of 16kHz to 60kHz. Its high withstand voltage and excellent thermal efficiency characteristics not only enhance the stability of the product, but also reduce the need for peripheral protection components, thereby significantly reducing the bill of materials (BOM) cost. Home appliances designed based on this device can not only meet the cost requirements of the price-sensitive market, but also obtain excellent energy efficiency ratings with high energy efficiency performance.
In addition, the device has a positive temperature coefficient characteristic, and with strict parameter consistency control, it supports multi-tube parallel connection to achieve current sharing design in high-power applications, further expanding its application range in the field of high-power home appliances.
Corporate Background: STMicroelectronics' Strength and Vision
STMicroelectronics is a company with 50,000 semiconductor technology creators and innovators, mastering the semiconductor supply chain and advanced manufacturing equipment. As a semiconductor vertically integrated manufacturer (IDM), STMicroelectronics develops products and solutions with more than 200,000 customers and thousands of partners, and jointly builds an ecosystem to meet various challenges and new opportunities to meet the world's higher demand for sustainable development.
STMicroelectronics' technology is widely used in smart travel, power and energy management, cloud-connected autonomous devices and other fields. The company is on track to achieve carbon neutrality for all direct and indirect emissions (including scope 1 and scope 2), product transportation, business travel, and employee commuting emissions (focusing on scope 3), and achieve its goal of using 100% renewable electricity by the end of 2027.
STMicroelectronics' STGWA30IH160DF2 IGBT is expected to occupy an important position in the cost-effective energy-saving home appliance market with its excellent performance and market advantages, and promote the further development of the energy-saving home appliance industry.
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