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Room-Temperature Bonded Interface improves Cooling of Gallium Nitride devices

Researchers Cheng Zhe and Samuel Graham shown with an optical test setup for studying gallium nitride devices cooled by placement on a diamond substrate. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

A room-temperature bonding technique for integrating wide bandgap materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) with thermally-conducting materials such as diamond could boost the cooling effect on GaN devices and facilitate better performance through higher power levels, longer device lifetime, improved reliability and reduced manufacturing costs. The technique could have applications for wireless transmitters, radars, satellite equipment and other high-power and high-frequency electronic devices.

The technique, called surface-activated bonding, uses an ion source in a high vacuum environment to first ...

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