An international team of researchers has been exploring nanomembranes of beta-phase gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) as a channel material for high-voltage field-effect transistors (FETs) [Wan Sik Hwang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Transistor
At the 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu, Hawaii (9-13 June), a team at Purdue University, SEMATECH of Albany, NY, USA (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials ...
Tags: SEMATECH CNSE SRC, Electrical, Electronics
At the PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Asia 2014 conference in Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, China (17-19 June), Michael de Rooij (executive director, Application Engineering) from Efficient Power ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
At the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has reported what are claimed to be the highest-performing III-V metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs). The research ...
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: POET, Process Equipment
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has introduced DrGaNPLUS evaluation ...
Tags: Half-Bridge Converter, Electronics
Researchers in Germany have developed two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) gallium nitride (GaN) channel structures with record mobility [B Reuters et al, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol47, p175103, 2014]. Mobility for 2DHGs in GaN is usually ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced what it claims are the industry’s highest-power continuous wave (CW) RF gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) packaged in a dual-flat no-leads (DFN) format. ...
Tags: GaN Transistors, CREE
Dow Corning Corp of Midland, MI, USA, which provides silicon and wide-bandgap semiconductor technology, has introduced a product grading structure for silicon carbide (SiC) crystal quality that specifies new tolerances on killer device ...
At the PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2014 conference in Nuremberg, Germany (20-22 May), Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs GaN-on-silicon, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers based in USA and South Korea have developed a gate stack for III-V quantum well metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (QW MOSFETs) based on a bilayer dielectric of beryllium oxide (BeO) and hafnium dioxide (HfO2) ...
Tags: InGaAs MOSFETs QW MOSFETs InGaAs ALD, Electrical, Electronics
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has created and posted on line an 11-part ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers in Taiwan have produced indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) with low interface trap densities directly on silicon [Yueh-Chin Lin etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p041202, 2014]. InGaAs ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has introduced the EPC9016 half-bridge ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
At the 39th annual Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology (GOMACTech 2014) conference in Charleston, SC, USA (3 April), Alex Lidow, CEO & co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, ...
Tags: DC-DC Converter, EPC