分立式功率晶体管，无论它是硅基还是硅基氮化镓，都进入了最后发展阶段。 硅基氮化镓集成电路可以在较小的占板面积内实现更高的性能，并且显著降低成本和减少所需的器件工程。 本文详细阐析氮化镓器件的崛起和硅基氮化镓集成电路如何重新定义功率转换。

Bodo’s Power Systems
2020年10月
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Brushless DC (BLDC) motors are a popular choice and are finding increasing application in robotics, drones, electric bicycles, and electric scooters. All these applications are particularly sensitive to size, weight, cost, and efficiency. A monolithically integrated GaN power stage is demonstrated powering a 400 W capable BLDC motor with low switching losses and significant savings in size and weight.

Power Electronics Europe
May, 2020
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Beyond just performance and cost improvement, the most significant opportunity for GaN technology to impact the power conversion market comes from its intrinsic ability to integrate multiple devices on the same substrate. GaN technology, as opposed to standard silicon IC technology, allows designers to implement monolithic power systems on a single chip in a more straightforward and cost-effective way.

Bodo’s Power Systems
May, 2020
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Starting on page 13 of this story, EPC discusses with David Morrison the latest GaN developments meant for APEC. Alex Lidow, CEO and co-founder of EPC, discussed his company’s new power stage ICs, their development of GaN-based reference designs using a multi-level topology and various demos that were originally bound for APEC.

How2Power Today
April, 2020
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EPC公司进一步更新了其广受欢迎的教育视频播客系列，上载了６个视频，针对器件可靠性及基于氮化镓场效应晶体管及集成电路的各种先进应用，包括面向人工智能的高功率密度运算应用，面向机械人、无人机及车载应用的激光雷达系统，以及Ｄ类放音频放大器。

宜普电源转换公司（EPC）更新了其广受欢迎的“如何使用氮化镓器件”的视频播客系列。刚刚上载的六个视频主要分享实用范例，目的是帮助设计师利用氮化镓技术设计面向人工智能服务器及超薄笔记本电脑的先进DC/DC转换器、面向机械人、无人机及全自动驾驶汽车的激光雷达系统，以及实现有可能是具有最高音质的音频系统。

当硅技术已经到了性能极限，采用氮化镓器件的全新设计使得氮化镓技术得以继续普及。氮化镓器件的发展还是刚刚起步，它的性能将得以继续提升、集成电路也将会更具优势，以及将有更多全新的氮化镓产品推出市场。

Electronics Weekly
2019年12月
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It’s getting harder to avoid using GaN power transistors and ICs, says Alex Lidow. There are many reasons to use GaN-on-Si power transistors such as eGaN FETs, in telecoms, vehicles, healthcare and computing. Smaller, faster, lower cost, and more integrated, GaN-on-Si devices have spent a decade gaining the confidence and trust of designers across the spectrum of power conversion applications.

Electronic Specifier
November 20, 2019
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Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) provides gallium nitride-based power devices for Solace Power’s 250 W wireless power platforms to enable higher power solutions and faster design cycle times.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.— September 2019 — EPC announces collaboration with Solace Power, a leading wireless power, sense and data company, to enable 250-watt wireless power solutions designed for 5G, aerospace, automotive, medical, and industrial applications. Solace Power’s intelligent wireless platform use EPC’s 200 V enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN^®) power transistors. This modular platform shares the same Equus™ architecture and enables up to 250 Watts of transmitted power with superior six degrees of spatial freedom.

氮化镓技术为业界实现以前不可能达到的目标。EPC公司的Alex Lidow阐析医疗护理如何更好地利用氮化镓技术，实现重大的改进。

Electronic Specifier
2019年8月
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宜普电源转换公司（EPC）推出两个全新100 V氮化镓器件，可以支持服务器及汽车应用的48 V转换的要求。 我将在处理器、车用及能量存储系统等方面探讨48 V服务器的功率转换解决方案（可参考我的文章 “双向DC/DC电源供电: 我们应该如何取向？”），未来将在EDN文章中看到。氮化镓功率晶体管必需是这些不同架构的一部分 -- 我相信没有其它更优越的元件可以替代氮化镓器件了 。

Planet Analog
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In the final installment of this series, how GaN has met the requirements to displace silicon is explored. As the adoption rate of GaN explodes, it is important to remember that, while GaN has made many advancements in just a few short years, it is still far from its theoretical performance limitations and thus there are profound improvements that can continue to be achieved. In time, the performance and cost advantages of GaN-on-silicon will result in a majority of applications currently using silicon-based devices converting to the smaller, faster, cheaper, and more reliable GaN technology.

Power Systems Design
February, 2019
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With the power architecture transition from a 12 V to a 48 V bus power distribution in modern data centers, there is an increased demand to improve 48 V power conversion efficiency and power density. In this context, DC-DC converters designed using eGaN^® FETs and ICs provide a high efficiency and high power density solution. Additionally, with the advent of 48 V power systems in mild-hybrid, hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, GaN transistors can provide a reduction in size, weight, and Bill of Materials (BOM) cost.

Power Systems Design
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Spirit公司的Marti McCurdy及EPC公司首席执行官Alex Lidow分享氮化镓器件如何在性能及成本方面比硅器件优越，以及分享全球领导厂商如何与EPC公司合作，利用氮化镓器件的优势，开发出他们新一代的技术。

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Spirit Electronics now provides distribution support to assist customers in adopting eGaN^® FETs and ICs for leading-edge power conversion systems in the defense and aerospace market.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.— May 2018 — To support its accelerating growth in the defense and aerospace markets, Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) is proud to announce the appointment of Spirit Electronics as a distribution partner focusing on these key market segments.  Spirit Electronics, in operation since 1979 and located in Phoenix, Arizona and Irvine, California, supplies products and services to the Department of Defense, aerospace, and telecommunication industries.  

Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) will exhibit live demonstrations at PCIM Europe 2018 showing how GaN technology’s superior performance is transforming power delivery for entire industries including computing, communications, and automotive.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — May 2018 — The EPC team will be delivering five technical presentations on gallium nitride (GaN) technology and applications at PCIM Europe 2018 in Nuremberg, Germany from June 5^th through the 7^th. In addition, in Hall 7, Stand 539, the company will exhibit its latest eGaN^® FETs and ICs in customers’ end products that are enabled by eGaN technology.

In this video Alex Lidow, Founder and CEO of EPC, talks to Alix Paultre, Editor-in-Chief of Power Electronics News, about the various demonstrations of GaN-based solutions at the EPC booth at APEC 2018 in San Antonio, Texas. The high-frequency operation and other advanced performance advantages over Silicon enables GaN to empower applications from LIDAR to wireless power transmission. The booth exhibits include examples of these, from a real-time LIDAR demonstration to a running "wireless desk".

宜普电源转换公司将于国际著名功率电子与应用研讨会（APEC^®2017）展示超过25多种基于卓越氮化镓技术的演示电路，以及它如何改变了我们的生活方式。我们的技术专家将以GaN^® FET和集成电路技术为主题，举行合共七场技术演讲。

宜普电源转换公司的团队将于2017年3月26日至30日在美国佛罗里达州Tampa举行的APEC 2017研讨会，举行以氮化镓（GaN）技术及应用为主题的七场演讲。此外，EPC将展示最新的eGaN FET及集成电路，以及分享客户采用eGaN技术的最终产品。