TS-061767 — Current se
miconductor
materi
als used in power devices
are re
aching their per
for
mance li
mits. Inventors
at OSU h
ave developed
a new
method o
f
fabric
ating thick &bet
a;-(
AlxG
a1-x)2O3
fil
ms to en
able low-
Al content. The result is
a lower cost o
f production
and the
ability to support next-gener
ation optoelectronic
and high-power device
applic
ations.
The Need
Currently, β-Ga2O3 is used as the semiconductor material for developing next-generation electronic devices to support various high-power applications ranging from telecommunication to electric vehicles (EVs). Yet, the use of β-Ga2O3 is introducing significant production costs…