{"id":3118,"date":"2017-04-11T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3118"},"modified":"2019-01-16T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:01:18","slug":"poweramerica-member-transphorm-revolutionizing-gan-market","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/poweramerica-member-transphorm-revolutionizing-gan-market\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerAmerica Member Transphorm Revolutionizing GaN Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3119\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3119\" class=\" wp-image-3119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Transphorm-Bilateral-Switch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"176\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transphorm\u2019s Stable FQS\/Bidirectional GaN Switch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to funding assistance from PowerAmerica, California-based Transphorm has developed what may be the first offerings of their kind in the market. The first is a bilateral switch which will enable 2-4x part count reduction and loss reduction, while the second is a 900V GaN HEMT, which will enable increased energy efficiency. The products are used to convert power in applications such as power supplies, solar inverters, AC-AC converters, industrial converters and electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Transphorm already has several GaN products on the market in the 650V range <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transphormusa.com\/news\/transphorm-announces-first-automotive-qualified-gan-fets\/\">(in fact, its second generation 650V GaN FET recently became the industry\u2019s first GaN solution to earn automotive qualification)<\/a>, which have helped to dispel doubts about the reliability and manufacturability of GaN. Previously, though, 900V GaN was not thought possible. While Transphorm had set a roadmap target to develop the higher node, Transphorm\u2019s partnership with Power America enabled them to focus specifically on the higher node 900V GaN devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe fact that PowerAmerica provided 50 percent of the funding for this project allowed us to focus on it as a roadmap item and develop streamlined technology \u2013 and offer first engineering samples with a datasheet &#8211; within a year,\u201d <\/strong>said Transphorm Co-founder and COO, Primit Parikh.<strong> \u201cPowerAmerica helped to get us to the next level with our product.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Primit added:<strong> \u201cWorking with PowerAmerica, we were able to leverage our strong baseline of industry&#8217;s highest reliability-highest quality GaN to improve existing technologies and get them closer to product commercialization. PowerAmerica helped accelerate and risk reduce our roadmaps of these advanced devices.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Transphorm also acknowledges previous ARPA-E funding for these novel technologies that helped take them from conception to feasibility demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Transphorm has preliminary samples released to select customers, and is continuing to focus on broader product release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to funding assistance from PowerAmerica, California-based Transphorm has developed what may be the first offerings of their kind in the market. The first is a bilateral switch which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}