Turning up the heat on next-generation semiconductors - MIT News
May 23, 2024 · Researchers studied how temperatures up to 500 degrees Celsius would affect electronics made from gallium nitride, a key step in their effort to develop electronics that can operate in extremely hot environments, like the surface of Venus.
There’s two sides to this semiconductor, and many simultaneous ...
Sep 25, 2024 · Gallium nitride-based semiconductors have been a boon for high-frequency and power electronics. They’ve also revolutionized energy-efficient LED lighting. But no semiconductor wafer has been able to do both at the same time efficiently.
News | RTX and DARPA to revolutionize Gallium Nitride …
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a four-year, $15 million contract from DARPA to increase the electronic capability of radio frequency sensors with high-power-density Gallium Nitride transistors.
Raytheon wins award for gallium nitride technology maturation
Nov 18, 2021 · TUCSON, Ariz., (Jan. 5, 2023) — Raytheon, an RTX business, has further enhanced its semiconductor foundry’s process for producing military-grade Gallium Nitride, known as GaN. The improved GaN, produced under the Defense Production Act Title III contract, performs better and costs less than previous versions. Raytheon’s GaN process ...
Ammonia-free gallium nitride semiconductor production found …
Jul 31, 2024 · Gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors can now be grown without ammonia, a toxic chemical that needs a sophisticated detoxifying system before it can be released into the atmosphere.
Texas Instruments expands internal manufacturing for gallium nitride ...
Oct 24, 2024 · DALLAS and AIZU, Japan, Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today announced it has begun production of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power semiconductors at its...
Are diamonds GaN's best friend? Revolutionizing ... - ScienceDaily
Dec 21, 2023 · A research team has fabricated a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor using diamond, which of all natural materials has the highest thermal conductivity on earth, as a substrate, and they succeeded...
Texas Instruments expands internal manufacturing for gallium nitride ...
Oct 24, 2024 · NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: TI adds GaN manufacturing in Japan, quadrupling its internal GaN manufacturing capacity between its factories in the United States and Japan.; TI's GaN-based semiconductors are in production and available now. TI enables the most energy-efficient, reliable and power-dense end products with the widest portfolio of integrated GaN-based power semiconductors.
Infineon pioneers world’s first 300 mm power gallium nitride …
Sep 11, 2024 · Infineon has succeeded in manufacturing 300 mm GaN wafers on an integrated pilot line in existing 300 mm silicon production in its power fab in Villach (Austria). The company is leveraging well-established competence in the existing production of 300 …
Little-understood physics in gallium-nitride LEDs garners UCSB’s …
Nov 5, 2024 · Around 2010, Speck began long-term research with fellow UCSB materials professors Claude Weisbuch, an experimentalist, and Chris van de Walle, a computational theoretician, to explore a phenomenon that limits the performance of gallium-nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a material and a device in which UCSB is a world leader.