Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
GaN can be doped with silicon (Si) or with oxygen [16] to n-type and with magnesium (Mg) to p-type. [17] [18] However, the Si and Mg atoms change the way the GaN crystals grow, introducing tensile stresses and making them brittle. [19] Gallium nitride compounds also tend to have a high dislocation density, on the order of 10 8 to 10 10 defects ...
Under certain conditions, some battery chemistries are at risk of thermal runaway, leading to cell rupture or combustion.As thermal runaway is determined not only by cell chemistry but also cell size, cell design and charge, only the worst-case values are reflected here.
Wolfspeed, Inc. is an American developer and manufacturer of wide-bandgap semiconductors, focused on silicon carbide and gallium nitride materials and devices for power and radio frequency applications such as transportation, power supplies, power inverters, and wireless systems. The company was formerly named Cree, Inc. [1]
International Rectifier Commences Commercial Shipments of Gallium Nitride on Silicon Devices EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- International Rectifier Corporation (NYS: IRF) today announced ...
A compound semiconductor is a semiconductor compound composed of chemical elements of at least two different species. These semiconductors form for example in periodic table groups 13–15 (old groups III–V), for example of elements from the Boron group (old group III, boron, aluminium, gallium, indium) and from group 15 (old group V, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth).
Companies that rely on pulling materials out of the ground in South America, shipping those to China for processing, and then sending it to North America or Europe add significant emissions to ...
In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) [1] is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si, silicium), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells.
An extrinsic semiconductor is one that has been doped; during manufacture of the semiconductor crystal a trace element or chemical called a doping agent has been incorporated chemically into the crystal, for the purpose of giving it different electrical properties than the pure semiconductor crystal, which is called an intrinsic semiconductor.