Ultrawide‐bandgap semiconductors: research opportunities and challenges

JY Tsao, S Chowdhury, MA Hollis… - Advanced Electronic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ultrawide‐bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors, with bandgaps significantly wider
than the 3.4 eV of GaN, represent an exciting and challenging new area of research in …

Review of commercial GaN power devices and GaN-based converter design challenges

EA Jones, FF Wang, D Costinett - IEEE journal of emerging and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gallium nitride (GaN) power devices are an emerging technology that have only recently
become available commercially. This new technology enables the design of converters at …

Emerging trends in wide band gap semiconductors (SiC and GaN) technology for power devices

F Roccaforte, P Fiorenza, G Greco, RL Nigro… - Microelectronic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Among the wide band gap (WBG) semiconductors, silicon carbide (4H-SiC) and gallium
nitride (GaN) are nowadays recognized as outstanding materials for the future of power …

An overview of normally-off GaN-based high electron mobility transistors

F Roccaforte, G Greco, P Fiorenza, F Iucolano - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Today, the introduction of wide band gap (WBG) semiconductors in power electronics has
become mandatory to improve the energy efficiency of devices and modules and to reduce …

Recent advances in GaN‐based power HEMT devices

J He, WC Cheng, Q Wang, K Cheng… - Advanced electronic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ever‐increasing power density and operation frequency in electrical power conversion
systems require the development of power devices that can outperform conventional Si …

Review of technology for normally-off HEMTs with p-GaN gate

G Greco, F Iucolano, F Roccaforte - Materials Science in Semiconductor …, 2018 - Elsevier
Owing to the high carrier density and high electron mobility of the two dimensional electron
gas (2DEG), high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) based on gallium nitride (GaN) are …

Power module electronics in HEV/EV applications: New trends in wide-bandgap semiconductor technologies and design aspects

A Matallana, E Ibarra, I López, J Andreu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
A large number of factors such as the increasingly stringent pollutant emission policies,
fossil fuel scarcity and their price volatility have increased the interest towards the partial or …

A review of gallium nitride power device and its applications in motor drive

X Ding, Y Zhou, J Cheng - CES Transactions on Electrical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wide band-gap gallium nitride (GaN) device has the advantages of large band-gap, high
electron mobility and low dielectric constant. Compared with traditional Si devices, these …

The role of power device technology in the electric vehicle powertrain

E Robles, A Matallana, I Aretxabaleta… - … Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the automotive industry, the design and implementation of power converters and
especially inverters, are at a turning point. Silicon (Si) IGBTs are at present the most widely …

Ultra-wide-bandgap AlGaN power electronic devices

RJ Kaplar, AA Allerman, AM Armstrong… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract" Ultra" wide-bandgap semiconductors are an emerging class of materials with
bandgaps greater than that of gallium nitride (EG> 3.4 eV) that may ultimately benefit a wide …