[HTML][HTML] GaN power converter and high-side IC substrate issues on Si, pn junction, or SOI

S Mönch, M Basler, R Reiner, F Benkhelifa… - e-Prime-Advances in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The lateral GaN power semiconductor technology enables monolithic integration of
complete power converter topologies such as half-bridges, multi-phase and multi-level …

Very high frequency PWM buck converters using monolithic GaN half-bridge power stages with integrated gate drivers

Y Zhang, M Rodríguez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integration is a key step in utilizing advances in GaN technologies and enabling efficient
switched-mode power conversion at very high frequencies (VHF). This paper addresses …

A review of envelope tracking power supply for mobile communication systems

X Ruan, Y Wang, Q Jin - CPSS Transactions on Power …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern mobile communication systems, spectral efficient modulation formats have been
widely used, which results in the envelope of the radio frequency (RF) signal is variable and …

Demonstration of GaN integrated half-bridge with on-chip drivers on 200-mm engineered substrates

X Li, K Geens, W Guo, S You, M Zhao… - IEEE Electron …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Co-integration of the key power stage, namely gate drivers and half-bridge in a single-die
solution, is a tremendous and inevitable challenge to realizing GaN power integrated circuits …

On the role of power electronics in visible light communication

J Sebastián, DG Lamar, DG Aller… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The continuous demand of increasing data rates provided by wireless communication
systems is contributing to saturating the RF spectrum. Visible light communication (VLC) …

Reproducing single-carrier digital modulation schemes for VLC by controlling the first switching harmonic of the DC–DC power converter output voltage ripple

J Rodríguez, DG Lamar, PF Miaja… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dc-dc power converter based on a two-phase synchronous buck converter that reproduces
single-carrier digital modulation schemes by controlling the first switching harmonic of the …

Envelope tracking GaN power supply for 4G cell phone base stations

Y Zhang, J Strydom, M de Rooij… - 2016 IEEE Applied …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces an envelope tracking (ET) power supply for 4G cell phone base
stations using EPC eGaN® FETs. An analytical loss model is developed for design …

Gallium-nitride-based submodule integrated converters for high-efficiency distributed maximum power point tracking PV applications

O Khan, W Xiao, HH Zeineldin - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed maximum power point tracking (MPPT) photovoltaic (PV) systems have drawn
increased attention since the inhomogeneous irradiance on PV modules can significantly …

Dynamic RON characterization technique for the evaluation of thermal and off-state voltage stress of GaN switches

T Cappello, A Santarelli… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
GaN power switches provide remarkable performance in terms of power-density, reduced
parasitics, and high-thermal handling capability that enable the realization of very efficient …

Hard-switching 650-V GaN HEMTs in an 800-V DC-grid system with no-diode-clamping active-balancing three-level topology

W Qian, J Lu, H Bai, S Averitt - IEEE Journal of Emerging and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For any voltage above 600-V dc, it is usually recommended to use 900-1200-V SiC
MOSFETs instead of GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs), given presently …