SBIR/STTR Research Award
Planar, High Frequency, Power Conversion Device Technology
Award amount
$69,485Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VELOX SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-06-29
- Contract end date
- 2010-04-30
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2009.A
- Topic code
- N09-T023
Research abstract
The team of Velox Semiconductor Corporation (Velox) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of using a single, monolithic, all-GaN integrated Diode(s) Driven Gate (DDG) HFET to achieve normally-off device operation with specifications required for Navy applications. Utilizing this structure, the team intends to demonstrate an initial normally-off device with threshold voltage (VT) higher than 2.5V (Phase I) without jeopardizing other Hetero-junction Field Effect Transistor (HFET) performance indicators, such as specific on-resistance (Ron), maximum current density (Jd,max) and switching frequency (f). This solution will provide a significant device performance and reliability improvement due to the ability to optimize the power transistor in the structure.
Technology keywords
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