UK made: 650V 200mm GaN foundry process for automotive in Wales
The UK government is backing the Compound Semiconductor Centre and Newport Wafer Fab to develop a 200mm Gallium Nitride power transistor foundry process.
Both these organisations are inside the compound semiconductor cluster in South Wales.
Coordinated jointly by the Centre and Fab, the intention is to deliver a 650V GaN-on-silicon HEMTs (all GaN power transistors are high electron mobility transistors) on 200mm wafers.
“We are initially targeting the electric vehicle segment of the market, including traction inverters, “said the Centre’s GaN programme manager Rob Harper. “As the project progresses, we hope to roll out custom foundry offerings that address additional market segments including mobile and laptop fast chargers, and energy storage inverters.”
UKRI support for 200mm Gallium Nitride HEMT foundry process UKRI has announced support for the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC) and Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) in developing a 200mm Gallium Nitride HEMT foundry process.
The project is a co-ordinated effort by CSC and NWF to deliver a foundry grade 650V GaN-on-Silicon HEMT process on a 200mm wafer platform.
The HEMT fabrication process technology will leverage 30 years of Silicon Power device manufacturing heritage at Newport Wafer Fab, developed under an automotive (IATF 16949) quality accredited volume manufacturing environment.
The epitaxial solution will look to leverage IP developed by CSC in partnership with its parent company IQE, on a high volume Aixtron G5 200mm manufacturing platform at its Cardiff, UK facility. CSC recently achieved full ISO9001 accreditation of its internal Quality Management System covering development through to volume scale up. The project is supported by UKRI under the â�
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‘Our friendship could never be divided’: Loss of 3 buddies in crash leaves close-knit CD group in mourning
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 13, 2021
Zachary Kijowski, Michael Shovlin and Mackenzie Mulroy (left to right) had a huge group of friends and maintained those relationships after graduating from Central Dauphin High School. Their friends are mourning after the three died in a crash Saturday. (Photo provided by Dan Zhumurkin)
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But it’s a rare kind of person who keeps 17 close friends from those formative years.
“I know it sounds like a lot of people, but we’re all very close,” said Tyler Steiner, who graduated from Central Dauphin High School in 2015.