人們用矽材料命名了“矽谷”，而矽材料現正面對全新並具有潛力的競爭對手 - 氮化鎵（GaN）材料。有說氮化鎵元件可以取得300億美元的半導體電源供應產業的市場份額。這個市場涵蓋了所有利用牆上的電源插座取得電源的產品—從Apple（AAPL）的iPhone充電器，以至Tesla（TSLA）的豪華電動汽車。

Investor's Business Daily
Allison Gatlin
2016年7月
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Tuesday I was fortunate enough to have a meeting with Alex Lidow, founder of chip company EPC of El Segundo, California, and something of an luminary of the chip world. Lidow came up with the “power MOSFET,” a device that went on to be the basis of billions in semiconductor sales, in 1977.

His new company, whose initials stand for “Efficient Power Conversion,” proposes replacing silicon, the original basis of the MOSFET, and one of the most prevalent types of semiconductor around, with a different material, Gallium Nitride, commonly abbreviated as GaN — or “eGaN,” as Lidow calls the company’s new, improved form of GaN.

Barron's
Tiernan Ray
June 29, 2016
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There have been several comparisons of eGaN FETs with silicon MOSFETs in a variety of applications, including hard-switched, soft-switched, and high-frequency power conversion. These studies have shown that eGaN FETs have large efficiency and power density advantages over silicon MOSFETs. Here we’ll focus on the use of eGaN FETs in synchronous rectifier (SR) applications and the importance of dead-time management. We show that eGaN FETs can dramatically reduce loss due to dead-time in synchronous rectifiers above and beyond the benefits of low RDS(on)and charge.

Power Systems Design
By: Dr. John Glaser & Dr. David Reusch, Efficient Power Conversion
June 13, 2016
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ANDOVER, Mass.—At the front door of Raytheon's Integrated Air Defense Center, there's a reminder of how big microwave electronics used to be—the original microwave oven. The now ever-present kitchen device was invented after a Raytheon engineer discovered his candy bar melted while he was standing near a magnetron used in a radar system the company was developing. Nearly the size of a refrigerator, the original microwave looks like it would cook a whole lot more than whatever was put within its metal grate, which was meant to contain the microwaves from its magnetron.

Ars Technica
June 9, 2016
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The chip giant's execs are leaving the AirFuel Alliance as the company pivots away from PCs, but WiTricity was showing off Dell notebooks using its wireless charging mat at Computex.

ZDNet
Sean Portnoy
June 8, 2016
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For the last three years, Intel has been stoking demand for PCs ahead of the next big buying cycle with the promise that new machines will be totally wireless. “We carry around a lot of wires,” Kirk Skaugen, Intel’s senior PC exec said at Computex Taipei 2015. “We carry about six cables each for our phones, our tablets and our PCs. We want to get rid of all those cables.”

Forbes
Elise Ackerman
June 6, 2016
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With power converters demanding higher power density, transistors must be accommodated in an ever decreasing board space. Beyond gallium nitride based power transistors’ ability to improve electrical efficiency, they must also be more thermally efficient. This article evaluates the thermal performance of chip-scale packaged eGaN^® FETs and compares their in-circuit electrical and thermal performance with state-of-the-art silicon MOSFETs.

Bodo’s Power Systems
David Reusch, Ph.D. and Alex Lidow, Ph.D.
June 1, 2016
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美國加州MILPITAS - 2016年5月 25日美通社專訊 --佔領電源管理和精確模擬解決方案的市場領導地位的Intersil Corporation (納斯達克指數NASDAQ代號: ISIL) 宣佈計劃進一步擴大其業界領先、面向衛星應用的耐輻射產品系列，在衛星及其他惡劣環境採用具備高可靠性的氮化鎵（GaN）電源轉換積體電路。

美通社
2016年5月25日
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The number one barrier to improving every electronic product – from smart wearables and laptops to handheld tools and electric cars – is battery technology. The current state-of-the-art in rechargeable batteries, Lithium Ion, has been around for 25 years. As tech goes, that’s pretty old. It’s time for something new, don’t you think?

Fortune
Steve Tobak
May 13, 2016
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宜普電源轉換公司（EPC）的增強型氮化鎵場效應電晶體（eGaN^® FET）及積體電路正在驅動最終用戶應用的發展，包括LiDAR、無線充電、DC/DC電源轉換、射頻發射基站、衛星系統及音訊放大器等應用。

從現場可靠性數據可以確證eGaN® FET及積體電路於客戶應用的品質。在本章節，我們分享eGaN^® FET的可靠性及現場數據的概述，包括在過去六年間我們對量產及已經付運的eGaN產品所收集的可靠性現場數據，以及分析超過170億小時受測元件的現場數據。最後所得的FIT比率(109小時內發生失效的元件)大約是0.24，這是目前最好的現場可靠性測試結果。

Plant Analog
作者：Chris Jakubiec
2016年5月1 日
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資訊的數學基礎始於資訊理論之父Claude Shannon於1948的著作《通信的數學理論》。他把資訊通信簡化為1及0數位，實質上是二進位數字。該理論可以於現實世界中有雜訊的環境下，準確無誤地傳輸數據。Shannon在2016年4月30日本來是他的百年誕辰。

EDN Network
Steve Taranovich
2016年4月16日
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In this installment of WiGaN, a differential-mode class-E amplifier for 6.78 MHz loosely coupled resonant wireless power applications is presented. It uses the EPC2037 eGaN^® FET which has a small (0.9 mm x 0.9 mm) footprint and can be driven directly with a logic gate. The amplifier is AirFuel™ Class 2 compatible, capable of delivery up to 6.5 W load power over an impedance range of 70j Ω.

EEWeb - Wireless & RF Magazine
Yuanzhe Zhang, Ph.D., Director of Applications Engineering
Michael de Rooij, Ph.D., Vice President of Applications Engineering
April 12, 2016
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In this short video, EPC's Alex Lidow explains why GaN FETs may make it possible to wirelessly charge a variety of vehicles, including flying drones. Wireless charging circuits employing GaN FETs work at 13.56 MHz, a switching frequency difficult to reach with ordinary silicon FETs. The GaN transistors used are also five to ten times smaller than silicon devices able to handle the same power levels.

Design World
April 11, 2016
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In this short video, EPC's Alex Lidow explains why GaN FETs can comprise circuits able to deliver Lidar resolutions down to a couple inches. Conventional silicon FETs performing the same tasks would be able to resolve images only down to a few feet. The secret is in the super-fast rise and fall times made possible by the GaN FETs.

Design World
April 11, 2016
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宜普電源轉換公司的首席執行長Alex Lidow說矽材料是半導體的主要材料，它一直以來是電子行業背後的推動力。可是，它的性能已經到了極限。位於美國洛杉磯的宜普公司正在探究以具備更高的性能的氮化鎵（GaN）元件顛覆市場並且取得矽元件價值4000億美元（2770億英鎊）的市場份額。Alex說：「這是業界首款比矽元件的成本更低並且具備更高的性能的半導體。」

Wired Magazine
Emma Bryce
2016年3月31日
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Emerging applications such as 48V-to-point-of-load (POL), wireless power and USB Type-C had a lot of interest. Google joined the Open Compute Project a few weeks ago and proposed a computer server-rack architecture based on a 48V power-distribution bus to improve overall system efficiency. While the 48V bus has been around for a long time, the push (and challenge) is for high-efficiency 48V-to-POL voltage regulators. EPC showcased TI’s 48V-to-1V EVM which uses the LMG5200 GaN module (driver and FETs), announced at APEC last year, and a new TI analog controller (TPS53632G).

TI E2E Community
Pradeep Shenoy
Mar 28, 2016
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您可能閱讀過ECN雜誌編輯（及新聞總監）所寫的關於幕後故事的推文，以及一張照片可比千言萬語表達得更好。可是，有的時候，聽聽工程師分享他們的感想及真知灼見可以是更有價值的體驗。

我就是這麼想，在加州Long Beach舉行的APEC會議上，與多位工程師及與會者見面以找出本屆APEC的內幕消息。我們比較了APEC與去年研討會的盛況、目前業界的主要發展方向及各公司對APEC研討會的評價。

ECNMag.com
作者：Kasey Panetta
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從本年的APEC研討會的各個討論題目顯然可以看到，氮化鎵功率技術的相關知識備受關注的程度，是前所未有的。採用氮化鎵技術的產品路演、全新產品及技術發佈、全體會議對氮化鎵技術的關注及其他討論題目都讓與會者感到氮化鎵功率元件已經來臨，而氮化鎵技術正在進駐市場。而且討論重點也稍微改變，從討論氮化鎵元件可以做什麼，改為討論需要其他什麼資源及支援，才可以實現基於氮化鎵功率電晶體的全新產品開發方案。

How2Power Today
David Morrison
2016年4月1日
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Though there are two standards for charging appliances wirelessly, a single circuit can be devised to serve as a charging node for both of them.

Design World
Michael de Rooij, Ph.D., Vice President, Applications Engineering
March, 2016
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Alex Lidow與工程師分享於先進的波峰追蹤應用採用氮化鎵元件可以發揮功率管理技術的優勢。如果放大器系統具備跟隨信號的功能並且只輸出所需功率，可節省大量能源及提高性能。

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