GaN HEMT – Gallium Nitride Transistor

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CoolGaN™ - the new power paradigm

Gallium nitride (GaN) offers fundamental advantages over silicon. In particular, the higher critical electrical field makes it very attractive for power semiconductor devices with outstanding specific dynamic on-state resistance and smaller capacitances compared to silicon MOSFETs, which makes GaN HEMTs great for high speed switching. Not only because of the resulting power savings and total system cost reduction, it also allows a higher operating frequency, improves the power density as well as the overall system efficiency.

The most important feature of a GaN power transistor is its reverse recovery performance. As Infineon’s CoolGaN™ transistors have no minority carriers and no body diode they do not exhibit a reverse recovery.

 

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Infineon’s CoolGaN™ is a highly efficient GaN transistor technology for power conversion in the voltage range up to 600V. With a longtime experience on the semiconductor market, Infineon brought the e-mode concept to maturity with end-to-end production in high volumes. The pioneering quality ensures the highest standards and offers the most reliable and performing solution among all GaN HEMTs on the market.

Switched-mode power circuits using CoolGaN™ can benefit from the improved energy efficiency and the improved power density, which is not possible with state-of-the-art silicon devices. In high-frequency operations, above 200-250kHz, switching speed is key to determining how the transfer of energy occurs. The superfast switching speed of Infineon’s CoolGaN™ enables a very short dead time. With a predicted lifetime of more than 15 years and a failure rate below 1 FIT, customers can rely on its reliability and quality.

As with all of Infineon’s power transistors, the CoolGaN™ series is supported by its range of gate drivers, which include the GaN EiceDRIVER™ family.

Enjoy design simplicity with Infineon’s single-channel isolated GaN EiceDRIVER™ ICs, developed to work efficient in high-voltage CoolGaN™ 600V designs and shorten time-to-market with a broad offering of GaN evaluation boards.
Infineon’s high performance CoolGaN™ e-mode HEMTs are available in top- as well as bottom-side cooled SMD packages. Allowing for highest efficiency and power density as well as best thermal behavior in the respective applications. These e-mode HEMTs target consumer and industrial applications such as server, datacom, telecom, adapter/charger, wireless charging and audio with the most robust and performing concept in the market.

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Fundamentals of 600 V CoolGaN™ transistors

In this eLearning you will get an overview of the main features and benefits of Infineon’s 600 V CoolGaN™ transistors.

 

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In this eLearning you learn about the similarities and differences of GaN power transistors compared to their silicon counterparts.

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In this training, you will learn about the transient voltage ratings that were added to CoolGaN™ datasheets.

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In this training, we will show you Infineon’s CoolGaN™ - GaN HEMTs  methodology.

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CoolGaN™ - Gallium Nitride Transistors are the power devices with the best performance available on the market. Get to know more about this technology.

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Infineon offers trusted expertise in all three main power semiconductor technologies. Check out how to position them in ACDC applications!

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Watch our webinar to discover more about technological positioning of silicon versus SiC and GaN power devices for both high and low power applications.

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Gallium nitride CoolGaN™ e-mode HEMTs in the applications

Infineon's gallium nitride CoolGaN™ family adds significant value to a broad variety of systems across many applications. These e-mode HEMTs target consumer and industrial applications such as server, datacom, telecom, adapter/charger, wireless charging and audio with the most robust and performing concept in the market.

Using Infineon’s CoolGaN™ in high-power applications such as server power supply and telecom applications, leads to cost savings and more power per rack. It also allows for easier control schemes due to its hard-switching capabilities, while at the same time offering efficiency benefits compared to the next best silicon alternative.

Gallium nitride technology in adapter and charger power supplies is a breakthrough in power density for small and lightweight, highly efficient solutions. Using Infineon’s CoolGaN™ in wireless power transfer enables high efficiency at higher power levels as well as optimal tuning in class E designs.

CoolGaN™ 400V devices in class D audio maximize audio performance for an excellent sound quality. Furthermore, there are almost no thermal design limitations, it is very easy to use and compatible with Infineon’s MERUS ™ class D audio amplifiers.

Server SMPS

By implementing gallium nitride CoolGaN™ e-mode HEMTs in a totem pole PFC combined with a LLC DC-DC stage, >98.5% system efficiency can be achieved (for 48V output voltage systems) providing a total of 2 billion kWh annual savings for US data centers (~ 300 million USD annual savings @ 0.15 USD/kWh).
GaN based SMPS solutions enable more compute power per rack by pushing the power density to >80W/in3 from today’s typical ~30..40 W/in3 of silicon based solutions.

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Telecom SMPS

Operating expense (OPEX) and capital expenditure (CAPEX) savings, overall reduction of power supply footprint and highest solution robustness have been and will remain in the focus of telecommunication infrastructure development. Infineon’s gallium nitride CoolGaN™ solution addresses these challenges by providing benchmark efficiency in the entire operation range, maximizing power density while following Infineon’s stringent qualification regime.

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Adapter and charger

Infineon’s CoolGaN™ is a breakthrough for adapter and charger systems, enabling ~20W/in3 power density (for 65W maximum output power). This advantage can be realized by implementing  CoolGaN™ in a half-bridge topology that enables increased switching frequency and efficiency simultaneously.

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Wireless charging

Gallium Nitride CoolGaN™ emode HEMTs enable optimal tuning in class E amplifiers especially above 30W, and offers major advantages over silicon in 6.78MHz wireless charging.

  • Low almost linear COSS without large increase at low VDS enables ZVS operation over wide load impedance range
  • Very low QG compared to equivalent silicon MOSFET
  • 5V gate drive, very low gate drive losses
  • Robust devices – self clamping gate instead of Schottky gate structure

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Class D audio amplifier

Infineon’s CoolGaN™ 400V e-mode HEMTs allow approaching the theoretical ideal performance of class D audio amplifiers. Due to its unique characteristics, perfectly suited for this application: zero reverse recovery charge (QRR) of the body diode, linear input and output capacitances, and extremely fast switching speeds (lowest QGD and RG) result in ideal switching waveforms, close to an ideal switch. These ideal switching waveforms are the prerequisite to maximize audio performance and minimize power losses in class D audio amplifier.

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