Silicon Carbide Vs Gallium Nitride
Silicon is reaching its limits, and gallium nitride (GaN) has emerged as a potential replacement semiconductor material. GaN’s wide band gap enables smaller power devices with equal performance – thus saving energy consumption and carbon emissions. Producing high-quality GaN chips requires much hard work. One of the main hurdles lies in manufacturing processes that are slower and more energy intensive than those typically used with silicon technology. Thermal Conductivity Silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors have brought revolution to power electronics, surpassing traditional silicon (Si) technology in several key categories like efficiency, heat dissipation and power density. Yet these wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors differ in some critical ways …