GaN epitaxial wafers → The next revolution in power and RF electronics

GaN-on-Si → High performance power at competitive prices

GaN-on-SiC → Leading edge RF products

EpiGaN team → Combined more than 75 years of GaN experience

Customer relationships → We support your journey to successful devices

EpiGaN

Bernin (Grenoble), France, May 13, 2019 – Soitec (Euronext Paris), an industry leader in designing and manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EpiGaN, a leading European supplier of GaN epitaxial wafer (epi-wafer) materials. EpiGaN’s GaN products are used primarily within RF 5G, power electronics, and sensor applications, with the total addressable market of GaN technologies estimated to be between 500,000 to 1M wafers per year within five years.
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About EpiGaN
The growing demand for high-speed, high-temperature and high power-handling capabilities has made the semiconductor industry rethink the choice of materials used as semiconductors. For instance, as various faster and smaller computing devices arise, the use of silicon is making it difficult to sustain Moore’s Law. But also in power electronics, the properties of silicon are no longer sufficient to allow further improvements in conversion efficiency.

Due to its unique characteristics (high maximum current, high breakdown voltage, and high switching frequency), Gallium Nitride (or GaN) is the unique material of choice to solve energy problems of the future. GaN based systems have higher power efficiency, thus reducing power losses, switch at higher frequency, thus reducing size and weight. 

GaN technology is used in numerous high-power applications such as industrial, consumer and server power supplies, solar, AC drive and UPS inverters, and hybrid and electric cars.  Furthermore, GaN is ideally suited for RF applications such as cellular base stations, radars and cable TV infrastructure in the networking, aerospace and defense sectors, thanks to its high breakdown strength, low noise figure and high linearity.

EpiGaN manufactures GaN-on-Si and GaN-on-SiC epitaxial wafer materials and supplies these to integrated device manufacturers to create high performance power and RF devices.

 

 

 
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