We live in a data and energy driven world increasingly defined by power-reliant industries including data centers, electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, industrial motors, and consumer electronics. These businesses have long faced formidable and universal challenges around energy wasted in power conversion, as well as the size limitations placed on overall product design by the…
The Novel Material That’s Shrinking Phone Chargers, Powering Up Electric Cars, and Making 5G Possible Originally featured in the Wall Street Journal on July 17. 2021, this column by Christopher Mims explores the uses and potential of Gallium Nitride. Read the full column here. If you’re reading this on a screen, it’s likely you’re literally…
This column by GaN Systems CEO Jim Witham originally appeared at VentureBeat, published on July 8, 2021. We are poised at the beginning of what may well be the most significant revolution in electric power since it was first used to light a few blocks of New York City 150 years ago. Global electricity demand…
Users need to know if the technology is reliable and does it work as it’s supposed to? By Jim Witham, CEO of GaN Systems Featured recently at Electronics Product & Technology, Jim Witham writes on the differences in testing GaN versus Silicon and a new approach to assessing reliability. Below is a preview of the…
New Half-Bridge Daughter Cards Feature Renesas GaN FET Drivers GaN Systems, the global leader in GaN (gallium nitride) power semiconductors, announced today the release of two 650V half-bridge daughter cards (30A and 60A), which provide an ultra-versatile platform to evaluate GaN drivers and transistors. The evaluation cards are available in two power levels, up to…
This technical article from Lei Kou, Power Electronics Applications Engineer at GaN Systems, and Juncheng (Lucas) Lu, GaN Systems Applications Engineering Manager, appears in full here at EE Power. This article describes an ultra-low parasitics Eon/Eoff measurement platform and the advantages of 100V GaN in 48V applications. In both consumer electronics and automotive electrification, we are in…
Whitepaper outlines approach for rigorous lifetime and reliability testing processes and results which prove GaN Systems’ devices are reliable OTTAWA, Ontario, September 16, 2020 – Are GaN (gallium nitride) power transistors proven and reliable? GaN Systems, the global leader in GaN power semiconductors, today released its whitepaper showing that GaN is reliable, with GaN Systems…
OTTAWA, Ontario, February 25, 2020 – GaN Systems, the global leader in GaN power semiconductors, will showcase how its leading GaN transistors are a cornerstone technology for power electronics equipment. New transistor products and power modules, reference designs and tools, and customer demonstrations in consumer electronics, industrial, and automotive industries will be on display at…
High voltage GaN Power HEMT now shipping in both top- and bottom-side cooled versions This press release was originally featured at BusinessWire here on December 18, 2019. MILPITAS, Calif. — Teledyne e2v HiRel is launching a new, ruggedized 650V/60A GaN power HEMT (High Electron Mobility Transistor) based on industry-leading technology from GaN Systems. The new…
The Introduction of 150 A and 80 A, 650 V GaN E-HEMT Transistors Meet Growing Electric Vehicle, Energy Storage, and Industrial Motor Demands OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, March 6, 2019 – GaN Systems, the global leader in GaN (gallium nitride) power semiconductors, today announced the industry’s highest current 650 V GaN E-HEMTs with the addition…
