The 2018 GaN power electronics roadmap
Дорожная карта силовой электроники на основе GaN на 2018 год
2018-03-26
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Gallium nitride (GaN) is a compound semiconductor that has tremendous potential to facilitate economic growth in a semiconductor industry that is silicon-based and currently faced with diminishing returns of performance versus cost of investment. At a material level, its high electric field strength and electron mobility have already shown tremendous potential for high frequency communications and photonic applications. Advances in growth on commercially viable large area substrates are now at the point where power conversion applications of GaN are at the cusp of commercialisation. The future for building on the work described here in ways driven by specific challenges emerging from entirely new markets and applications is very exciting. This collection of GaN technology developments is therefore not itself a road map but a valuable collection of global state-of-the-art GaN research that will inform the next phase of the technology as market driven requirements evolve. First generation production devices are igniting large new markets and applications that can only be achieved using the advantages of higher speed, low specific resistivity and low saturation switching transistors. Major investments are being made by industrial companies in a wide variety of markets exploring the use of the technology in new circuit topologies, packaging solutions and system architectures that are required to achieve and optimise the system advantages offered by GaN transistors. It is this momentum that will drive priorities for the next stages of device research gathered here.
Key Findings
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Advances in growth on commercially viable large-area substrates have brought GaN power-conversion technology to the cusp of commercialization.
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First-generation GaN production devices enable emerging markets requiring higher switching speed, lower specific resistivity, and lower saturation losses than conventional technologies.
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Future GaN research priorities will increasingly be shaped by market-driven requirements from new applications and system architectures.
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GaN’s high electric-field strength and electron mobility provide strong potential for high-frequency communications, photonics, and power-conversion applications.
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Industrial investment is accelerating development of GaN-compatible circuit topologies, packaging, and system architectures to optimize system-level advantages.
Research Object
GaN power electronics technology, including GaN transistors and their production devices
Research Subject
The technological performance, commercialization readiness, and system-level applications of GaN power devices, including high-speed, low-specific-resistivity, low-saturation-switching operation and integration into circuits, packages, and architectures
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