Gallium Nitride-enabled High Frequency and High Efficiency Power Conversion

✍ Scribed by Gaudenzio Meneghesso, Matteo Meneghini, Enrico Zanoni

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Series: Integrated Circuits and Systems
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book demonstrates to readers why Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors have a superior performance as compared to the already mature Silicon technology. The new GaN-based transistors here described enable both high frequency and high efficiency power conversion, leading to smaller and more efficient power systems. Coverage includes i) GaN substrates and device physics; ii) innovative GaN -transistors structure (lateral and vertical); iii) reliability and robustness of GaN-power transistors; iv) impact of parasitic on GaN based power conversion, v) new power converter architectures and vi) GaN in switched mode power conversion.

• Provides single-source reference to Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based technologies, from the material level to circuit level, both for power conversions architectures and switched mode power amplifiers;
  
• Demonstrates how GaN is a superior technology for switching devices, enabling both high frequency, high efficiency and lower cost power conversion;
  
• Enables design of smaller, cheaper and more efficient power supplies.
  

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Taking the Next Step in GaN: Bulk GaN Substrates and GaN-on-Si Epitaxy for Electronics (Joff Derluyn, Marianne Germain, Elke Meissner)....Pages 1-28
Lateral GaN HEMT Structures (Chang Soo Suh)....Pages 29-49
Vertical GaN Transistors for Power Electronics (Srabanti Chowdhury, Dong Ji)....Pages 51-74
Reliability of GaN-Based Power Devices (Gaudenzio Meneghesso, Enrico Zanoni, Matteo Meneghini, Maria Ruzzarin, Isabella Rossetto)....Pages 75-99
Validating GaN Robustness (Kenichiro Tanaka, Ayanori Ikoshi, Tetsuzo Ueda)....Pages 101-122
Impact of Parasitics on GaN-Based Power Conversion (Johan T. Strydom)....Pages 123-152
GaN in AC/DC Power Converters (Fred Wang, Bo Liu)....Pages 153-180
GaN in Switched-Mode Power Amplifiers (David J. Perreault, Charles R. Sullivan, Juan M. Rivas)....Pages 181-223
Back Matter ....Pages 225-232

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Circuits and Systems; Electronic Circuits and Devices; Optical and Electronic Materials