As high-data-rate applications put more strain on LTE wireless networks, solutions such as small-cell base-stations (BTS) and carrier aggregation will be needed to bridge the bandwidth gap in high traffic areas. In response to broader ...
Tags: GaN HEMTs, LTE wireless networks
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed conventional aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with record-breaking figures-of-merit (FOMs) for frequency and breakdown performance [Kumud ...
Tags: 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
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is developing techniques to monolithically integrate high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on aluminium indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) ...
Tags: Nitride Semiconductor, LEDs, LED regions
At last year’s IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) introduced the first - and only - ...
Tags: Transphorm GaN-on-Si, Electrical
RWTH Aachen University has reported the first small-signal response frequency characteristics for p-channel gallium nitride (GaN) heterostructure field-effect transistors (HFETs) [Herwig Hahn et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol52, p128001, ...
Tags: GaN HFETs GaN MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
China’s Xidian University has produced ‘normally-off’ gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with a thin high-aluminium-content aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier layer [Kai Zhang et al, ...
Tags: Xidian University, normally-off, GaN, HEMTs
Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has developed a passivation process for aluminium gallium nitride on gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon substrates that significantly ...
Tags: Nitride HEMTs, Electrical
Taiwan’s National Chiao-Tung University has developed a titanium nitride/copper (TiN/Cu) gate structure for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) that shows improvements over a comparison ...
Tags: GaN HEMT, Electronics
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which manufactures semiconductors, components, and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a ceramic gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Sic, Electronics
Researchers based in Belgium have developed gold-free nitride semiconductor Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on 200mm-diameter silicon to complement metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) previously ...
Tags: Barrier Diodes, Electrical, Electronics
The UK's University of Manchester has used band engineering on indium phosphide (InP) to create indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistors (pHEMTs) with reduced gate current leakage and high breakdown ...
Tags: Barriers
New RPI research proves the concept of integrating LED emitters on the same chip with other electronic components such as transistors, while other new research focuses on maximizing the light extraction efficiency of LEDs and lowering cost ...
Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) has extended its work on double-gated nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (DG-HEMTs) [Guohao Yu et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
Tags: Nitride HEMTs, Electrical
The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA has demonstrated what is reckoned to be the first monolithically integrated light-emitting diode (LED) and high-electron-mobility ...
Tags: Smart Lighting, GaN Chip