40 V Rad Hard GaN FETs Set New Performance Standards for Space Applications
EPC Space expands its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) gallium nitride (GaN) Discrete family for critical spaceborne and other high reliability environments.
EPC’s eGaN FETs and ICs offer a higher performing alternative to conventional rad hard silicon devices for high reliability and space applications. EPC’s Rad hard devices are significantly smaller, have 40 times better electrical performance, and lower overall cost than rad hard silicon devices. Moreover, EPC Space’s rad hard devices exhibit superior resistance to radiation, supporting higher total radiation levels and SEE LET levels compared to traditional silicon solutions.
With higher breakdown strength, lower gate charge, lower switching losses, better thermal conductivity, and lower on-resistance, power devices based on GaN significantly outperform silicon-based devices and enable higher switching frequencies resulting in higher power densities, higher efficiencies, and more compact and lighter weight circuitry for critical spaceborne missions.
Applications benefiting from the performance of these products include DC-DC power supplies for satellites and space mission equipment, motor drives for robotics, instrumentation and reaction wheels, deep space probes, and ion thrusters.
“These two new additions to our rad-hard product line offer designers high power and low on-resistance solutions enabling a generation of power conversion and motor drives in space operating at higher efficiencies, and greater power densities than what is achievable with traditional silicon-based rad-hard solutions,” said Bel Lazar, CEO of EPC Space.
Price & Availability
500 units pricing of $212.80/ea for engineering models and $315.84/ea for space level grade. Products are available with lead-times of 4 and 12 weeks or less for Engineering modes and Space levels respectively.
eGaN is a registered trademark of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation, Inc.
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