(Invited) Expectations for High-Power Semiconductors in Microwave-Assisted Chemistry. (5th January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mitani, Tomohiko; Shinohara, Naoki
• Is Part Of: ECS transactions. Volume 75:Number 40(2016)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 27
• Publication Date: 2017-01-05
• Subjects: Electrochemistry -- Periodicals; Electrochemistry; Periodicals; Electronic journals; Electronic journal; 541.37
• DOI: 10.1149/07540.0025ecst
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1938-5862

Abstract

Abstract : This paper introduces availability and importance of the high-power semiconductors in the field of microwave-assisted chemistry. Microwave-assisted chemical reactions have attracted significant attention over many years, primarily because the microwave heating mechanism, so-called dielectric heating, is quite different from conventional conduction heating. Since a microwave oven was invented nearly 70 years ago, a vacuum tube device i.e. magnetron has accounted for an overwhelming share of microwave heating applications. High-power semiconductors, on the other hand, are rapidly developing throughout the 21st century. Low-cost high-power semiconductors have a great potential for future microwave heating and microwave-assisted chemistry.