GaN power electronics

Between 5 and 10% of the world's electricity is wasted as dissipated heat in the power electronic circuits needed, for example, in computer power supplies, motor drives or the power inverters of photovoltaic systems. This paper describes how the unique properties of GaN enables a new generation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lu, Bin, Piedra, Daniel, Palacios, Tomas
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72948
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8104-9097
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2190-563X
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2208-0665