Performance evaluation of silicon and gallium nitride power FETs for DC/DC power converter applications

Detailed performance evaluation of silicon and GaN power FETs is presented for chip-scale DC/DC converter applications. It is shown that improved GaN power FETs and silicon MOS power diodes can potentially lead to nearly 90% power conversion efficiency when switched at 5 MHz in a synchronous buck converter topology.

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