Infineon Technologies CoolGaN™ Gallium Nitride e-mode HEMTs

Infineon CoolGaN™ Gallium Nitride e-mode HEMTs offer excellent advantages, including ultimate efficiency, reliability, power density, and high quality over silicon. CoolGaN is a high-performance transistor technology for power conversion in the voltage range of up to 600V. The lateral transistor structure of CoolGAN features a very low gate and output charge, fast switching, and no body diode or reverse recovery charge. These characteristics result in the transistors being used to design very high-efficiency and high-frequency power-conversion circuits. Infineon’s CoolGaN is made with a self-clamping p-gate structure.

Infineon CoolGaN quality is ideal for hard and soft switching topologies, resulting in record efficiency (>99%) with a potential for BOM savings. CoolGaN enables the adaptation of simpler half-bridge topologies for PFC, including the elimination of the lossy input bridge rectifier. Gallium nitride (GaN) provides a higher critical electrical field making it ideal for power semiconductor devices with outstanding specific dynamic on-state resistance and smaller capacitances compared to silicon MOSFETs. This enables high-speed switching.

Features

  • Fgure of merits of 600V power devices
  • Excellent for hard and soft switching topologies
  • Triple increase in power density is achievable
  • Optimized for turn-on and turn-off
  • Fast (and nearly lossless) switching
  • High power density enables small and light designs
  • Technology for innovative solutions and high volumes
  • Very low RDS(on) and large cost-down potential
  • High efficiency for SMPS
  • Zero reverse recovery charge
  • Compared to Si technology:
    • 10x higher breakdown field and 2x higher mobility
    • 10x lower output charge
    • 10x lower gate charge and linear Coss characteristic
  • Surface mount packaging ensures that switching capabilities of GaN are fully accessed
  • Easy-to-use with a compelling driver IC portfolio

Applications

  • Server
  • Telecom
  • Hyperscale Datacenter
  • Wireless charging
  • SMPS (Switched Mode Power Supply) 
  • Adapter and Charger

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Published: 2018-10-26 | Updated: 2024-05-07