Two teams at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA are being funded to investigate the use of gallium nitride (GaN) to enhance space exploration. Engineer Jean-Marie ...
Tags: GaN transistors, GaN Crystal
For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...
A new highly efficient power amplifier (PA) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS could help to make possible next-generation cell phones, low-cost collision-avoidance radar for cars and lightweight microsatellites for communications, ...
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Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) – which was spun off from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 – has announced a range of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors and power electronic circuits targeted at cutting energy ...
Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor supplier GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA has announced availability of a gate driver evaluation board and has expanded its design support for its SiC junction transistor (SJT, claimed ...
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Computer chips used in next-generation smartphones and supercomputers can't get much faster without overheating.That's why engineers hope carbon nanotubes offer a possible cooling solution that could enable processing speeds to continue ...
When molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) entered the conversation related to two-dimensional (2-D) alternatives to graphene in electronic applications, some thought that MoS2 had an edge as a transistor material. That thought was inspired by the ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched a railcar traction inverter system for 1500VDC catenaries that incorporates what is claimed to be the first all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules made with SiC transistors and SiC diodes. ...
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Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp of Thief River Falls, MN, USA has announced new inventory of gallium nitride (GaN) power management products, available for immediate shipment as part of an exclusive global ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
To increase the efficiency of voltage converters and minimize heat losses, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF in Germany are developing transistors based on gallium nitride, characterized by low ...
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SEMATECH (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials manufacturers) claims that researchers have made significant advances in post-epitaxial-growth backside clean processing that will prepare ...
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In its efforts to explore methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry, mimicking the way in which the human brain operates. The proposed transistors would be ...
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The first millimeter-wave power demonstration of aluminium gallium nitride/gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN) grown on a (110) silicon substrate has been claimed by a French team of researchers [A. Soltani ...
Exploring methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. The proposed transistors would be made from strongly ...
Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) has launched the Total GaN family of gallium nitride on silicon transistors and diodes, establishing what is claimed to ...
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