News tagged with breakdown voltages

Fujitsu develops technology to manufacture power-supply transistors on nearly any flat-surface material

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a technology that enables the manufacture of power-supply transistors on nearly any flat surface, including glass, plastic, or copper. High breakdown-voltage ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Panasonic develops gallium nitride (GaN) power transistor on silicon with blocking-voltage-boosting structure

Panasonic today announced the development of a new technique to drastically increase the blocking voltage of Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based power switching transistor on silicon (Si) substrates. The blocking ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Panasonic Develops High Power Gallium Nitride Transistor for Long-distance Millimeter-Wave Communication

Panasonic today announced the development of a high power Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistor for long-distance communication at millimeter-wave frequencies. A 25GHz wireless transceiver is fabricated using the ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Fujitsu Develops Gallium-Nitride HEMT Amplifier Featuring World's Highest Output in the C-Ku Band

Fujitsu today announced the development of an amplifier based on gallium-nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology, which features an output of 12.9W - more than twice the output of ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New nanoscale electrical phenomenon discovered

At the scale of the very small, physics can get peculiar. A University of Michigan biomedical engineering professor has discovered a new instance of such a nanoscale phenomenon -- one that could lead to faster, less expensive ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (38) | comments 6