{"id":143408,"date":"2022-08-02T06:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/photovoltaic-micro-inverter-based-on-gallium-nitride-transistors"},"modified":"2022-08-02T06:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:23:13","slug":"photovoltaic-micro-inverter-based-on-gallium-nitride-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/photovoltaic-micro-inverter-based-on-gallium-nitride-transistors","title":{"rendered":"Photovoltaic micro-inverter based on gallium nitride transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photovoltaic-micro-inverter-based-on-gallium-nitride-transistors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to its designers, the device has a power density of 1.1 kW\/L and an efficiency of 97%.<\/p>\n<p>The micro-inverter utilizes GaN 600V diodes and power transistors developed by CEA\u2019s electronic branch CEA-Leti. \u201cWith this coplanar technology, it would be possible to make the power component \u2018smarter\u2019 with protection (temperature, voltage, current, etc.) and control (driver) functions. It is also possible to design bidirectional voltage interrupters which do not exist at present,\u201d the French scientists said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to its designers, the device has a power density of 1.1 kW\/L and an efficiency of 97%. The micro-inverter utilizes GaN 600V diodes and power transistors developed by CEA\u2019s electronic branch CEA-Leti. \u201cWith this coplanar technology, it would be possible to make the power component \u2018smarter\u2019 with protection (temperature, voltage, current, etc.) and control [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}