In this episode of PowerUP featuring Alex Lidow, CEO of EPC, we delve into an examination of the revolutionary implications of GaN technology across a range of applications, with a specific focus on motor control and LiDAR systems.

Power Electronics News
February, 2024
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宜普电源转换公司(EPC)是增强型氮化镓 (GaN) FET 和 IC产品的领导者，在纽伦堡举行的 PCIM Europe 2023展会上分享了关于氮化镓技术的发展和其应用的演示。 我们与该公司的联合创始人兼首席执行官 Alex Lidow 就电力电子行业和氮化镓技术对行业的影响进行了深度交流。

Electronic Design
2023年5月
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From Nov. 15 to 18, electronica 2022 will bring the international electronics industry together at the Munich exhibition grounds. Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Renewable Energies, Smart Grid, and Energy Storage will be the major topics covered by the Power Electronics Forum at electronica 2022. In this podcast, onsemi president and CEO Hassane El-Khoury, Silanna Semiconductor North America CEO Mark Drucker, and of Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) CEO Alex Lidow will introduce the Power Electronics Forum. Interview with Alex Lidow starts at 31:55

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The development of gallium nitride technology has ushered in a new age for power electronics. The greater bandgap, critical field, and electron mobility are the three factors that affect GaN technology the most. To concentrate on expanding motor drive applications based on GaN technology in the e-mobility, robotics, drone, and industrial automation areas, EPC has opened a new design application center close to Turin, Italy.

EE Times Europe
September, 2022
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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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It’s okay to start using gallium-nitride (GaN) devices in your new designs. GaN transistors have become extremely popular in recent years. These wide-bandgap devices have been replacing LDMOS transistors in many power applications. For example, GaN devices are broadly being adopted for new RF power amplifiers used in cellular base stations, radar, satellites, and other high-frequency applications. In general, their ability to endure higher voltages and operate at frequencies well into the millimeter-wave (mmWave) range have them replacing traditional RF power transistors in most amplifier configurations.

Electronic Design
November, 2019
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针对DC/DC、激光雷达（LiDAR）、无线电源及其它很多应用的客户群正在不断地扩大，宜普电源转换公司（EPC）继续其创新之路，在2019年3月及4月里，于全球著名展览会与设计工程师会面并答疑解难，旨在帮助工程师发挥氮化镓技术的优势，携手打造共创共赢的局面。

宜普电源转换公司（EPC）的专家于全球展览会与设计工程师会面，希望加深与氮化镓技术相关的知识交流，使得工程师可以利用基于氮化镓器件的解决方案，创新新一代的设计。

In this conference GaN market and technology status will be addressed and its future evolution will be debated by mixing visions from designers, manufacturers, and end users.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — January 2019 — Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) is joining forces with Yole Développement (Yole) and SEMI to sponsor the first ever ‘GaN Con,’ an industry networking event covering the entire power GaN industry from manufacturers to end users. The theme of GaN Con is “Power GaN: From promises to possible market explosion” and is focused on the emerging GaN market and the state-of-the-art for its underlying technology.

氮化镓技术已经成熟至可以挑战传统的硅技术。从2010年起，商用的低压硅基氮化镓功率器件实现了很多全新应用。具备高速开关性能的氮化镓器件也推动了全新市场的出现，例如激光雷达、包络跟踪及无线电源市场。这些全新应用有助供应链的开发、实现低制造成本及良好的器件可靠性记录。这一切对于比较保守的DC/DC转换器、AC/DC转换器及车载应用的设计工程师来说，是很好的理据，是时候开始对氮化镓器件进行评了。本文探讨加快采纳氮化镓器件的各项因素。

Electronics Weekly
2019年1月
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当全自动汽车及电力推进系统成为车载应用发展的推动力，在硅衬底上生成氮化镓的功率器件的庞大新兴市场正逐渐崛起。

Design World
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从2010年开始，自硅基氮化镓（GaN）晶体管商用化后，低压氮化镓晶体管推动了很多全新应用的发展。氮化镓器件具备超快速开关，推动全新市场诸如激光雷达、包络跟踪及无线电源市场的出现。这些全新应用进一步实现更强大的供应链、低制造成本及器件前所未有的高可靠性。这些优势使得比较保守的设计工程师在DC/DC转换器、AC/DC转换器及车载等各种应用开始对氮化镓器件进行评估。在本文章系列，我们将讨论多种发挥氮化镓器件优势的应用，实现最终产品差异化的竞争优势。首先，我们会探讨是什么因素加快了氮化镓器件的普及。

Power Systems Design
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EPC CEO & Co-Founder, Alex Lidow was a featured guest on Cheddar TV sharing how GaN technology is enabling new and disruptive technologies, such as LiDAR for self-driving cars and power conversion transistors and ICs for wide-area wireless power and medtech.

Cheddar
September 11, 2017
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The year is 2022. You sit down at your office desk, back from Ikea with your new lamp. You take it out of the box, place it on the table, and it illuminates the workspace immediately. You then take your MacBook out of your backpack, place it to the right of the lamp, and it starts charging instantly. It sounds unreasonable to think that all this could become reality in just a few years. But behind closed doors, this technology already exists.

“A couple of months ago, we demonstrated an entire table top where everything on it was powered wirelessly,” Alex Lidow, CEO of EPC, tells Inverse. “A lamp, computer monitor, computer, cell phones being charged… all sorts of stuff.”

Inverse Innovation
August, 2017
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Since Nikola Tesla first experimented with wireless power during the early 1900s, there has been a quest to “cut the cord” – and go wireless. Today’s applications for wireless power undoubtedly extend far beyond Tesla’s wildest imagination, as we now have the ability to wirelessly charge cell phones, power tools, and even buses while at their scheduled stops, not to mention airborne drones while flying. However, despite strong consumer and business demand for wireless charging, power cords still reign. What explains the lag in our ability to power all of our electronic devices and appliances wirelessly?

ITProPortal
August 2, 2017
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During our lifetime furniture design has been primarily dictated by style. However, as we become gradually more entangled in the internet of things, function is going to become increasingly important.

Future of Everything
July 20, 2017
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GaN power element technology has found its way into a major application in the industry with the release of the Dell Latitude computer using the AirFuel standard.

Planet Analog
July 19, 2017
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EPCが無線充電用途向けeGaN FETとパワーキットに関するデータ一覧

日経BP社
2017年6月15日
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业界资深技术专家Alex Lidow的使命，是帮助您对电子设备供电而不需使用电源线`。

Seeker
2017年6月
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With the current maturity of Class-D audio amplifier architectures, amplifier fidelity and efficiency limitations are primarily at the device level. Silicon MOSFETs have been evolving for almost forty years, and their progress towards a perfect switch has slowed dramatically. There are some fundamental characteristics of MOSFETs that degrade sound quality and efficiency. In 2010, the enhancement mode Gallium nitride (GaN) power FET was introduced by Efficient Power Conversion (EPC), providing a large step towards the perfect switch.

Audio Engineering Society
May 11, 2017
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Wireless charging promises a cord-free future, one that offers freedom from being tethered to the end of a charging cable. One company might have its finger on the pulse for this wirelessly powered future. Alexander Lidow is the CEO and founder of Efficient Power Conversion, a company looking to expand upon its namesake. EPC most notably displays how it wants to revolutionize wireless charging with a seemingly simple desktop.

Interesting Engineering
May 23, 2017
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