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AspenCore Guide

to Gallium Nitride

A New Era for Power Electronics

As silicon reaches its theoretical performance limits for power electronics,
PowerUP Expo – Panel — The PowerUP Expo – Panel — Are You industry is shifting toward wide-bandgap materials like gallium nitride
Future of Energy GaN or SiC? (GaN), whose properties provide clear benefits in power converters for

consumer and industrial electronics. This book delves into GaN technology
Power semiconductor manufacturers believe that The market is continuing its race towards a request and its importance for power electronics professionals engaged with its
GaN- and SiC-based devices hold the key to address- for more power. And the industry, in general, is implementation in power devices.
ing the expansion of renewable energy. moving away from silicon in favor of wide bandgap
semiconductor materials.

FOR MORE INFORMATION > Foreword: Alex Lidow, CEO of Efficient
FOR MORE INFORMATION > Power Conversion (EPC)
Market Overview: Yole Développement

Technology Analysis: Elena Barbarini, System Plus
Consulting; Filippo Di Giovanni, STMicroelectronics;
Alex Lidow, EPC; Chris Lee, Power Integrations; Dilder
Chowdhury, Nexperia; Stephen Oliver and Dan
Kinzer, Navitas Semiconductor; Stefano Lovati and
Davide Di Gesualdo, EEWeb; Paul Wiener, GaN Systems;
and Professor Alex Q. Huang, Tianxiang Chen, and
Ruiyang Yu, University of Texas at Austin. In addition,
there are reports from Jens Tybo Jensen, Jun Honda,
and Pawan Garg, Infineon Technologies; Max Zafrani,

EPC Space; Kasyap Patel, Wolfspeed, a Cree Company;
Andrea Vinci, Tektronix; and Gerald Deboy,
PowerUp Expo – Panel – Motor PowerUP Podcast – Yes, We GaN Infineon Technologies.

Control Solutions for Any Power Power electronics has undergone an interest- Tech papers: Keysight, ON Semiconductor, Cadence,

Requirements ing change towards new Wide-bandgap (WBG) United Monolithic Semiconductors, Transphorm,
semiconductors (WBG). Significant impact factors Nexperia, and CEA-Leti
The challenges of motion control will revolve for the growth of the WBG semiconductor market
around the concept of the smart factory. The an- include the growing demand for improved ener-
swer will most likely come with the complete opti- gy efficiency and increased demand for long-life ONLINE BOOKSTORE:
mization and digitization of products and services. batteries. www.eetimes.com/shop

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