Visic announces 650V GaN switch
Visic Technologies, a developer of GaN power switching semiconductors, has announced its first normally-off GaN power switch.
The ALL-Switch (Advanced Low-Loss Switch) is based on Visic's GaN power transistors and is suited to photovoltaic inverters, UPS, hybrid electric vehicles/electric vehicles and high voltage DC-DC conversion.
Tamara Baksht, CEO and founder of VisIC Technologies, said: "We are very excited to soon be able to sample our products to OEMs. With the combinations of our technology and the cost of GaN on silicon, we see ourselves able to meet our goal to deliver GaN performance to OEMs at silicon MOSFET prices."
"This is the long awaited 'game-changer' for GaN in power conversion devices. Delivering this promise to the very large 650V applications space will rapidly expand the use of GaN-based components since GaN also provides the efficiency gains, cost reductions and size reductions OEMs want to deliver to their customers in systems currently using silicon IGBTs and MOSFETs."
Visic, based in Rehovot, Israel, was established in 2010 to be a technology licensor and a provider of high-voltage (650V and above), high-volume GaN devices to the rapidly growing power conversion market.
