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Gallium Nitride Transistors Make High-Frequency Power Electronics More Efficient and Compact

Applications seen in aeronautics, communications electronics

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Highly modern power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) enable power electronic switches to operate at much higher switching frequencies compared to those based on silicon (Si). An increased power density per volume and per weight, reduced costs, less material use and, in the case of a mobile system, increased system efficiency are among the advantages. Solutions and concepts for high-frequency power electronics of the future shall be developed in the collaborative project “GaN-resona...

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