The vacuum tubes used in today’s millimeter-wave transmitters face an increasing threat from GaN HEMTs. Cree’s Yifeng Wu and Primit Parikh are leading the GaN charge with designs that incorporate field plates, iron-doped buffer layers and a thin AlN interlayer to deliver a record power at 30 GHz.
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