Infineon and AWL-Electricity partner to improve with GaN power semiconductors

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Infineon Technologies, a world semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, announced a  partnership with Canada-based AWL-Electricity Inc., a pioneer in MHz resonant capacitive  coupling power transfer technology. Infineon provides AWL-E with CoolGaN GS61008P allowing the development of advanced wireless power solutions, enabling new ways to  solve power challenges in various industries. 

The partnership combines Infineon’s cutting-edge gallium nitride (GaN) technology with  AWL-E’s innovative MHz resonant capacitive coupling power transfer system, achieving  industry-benchmark wireless power efficiencies. Infineon’s GaN transistor technology offers  highest efficiency and highest power density while operating at highest switching  frequencies. This enables AWL-E to increase its system lifetime, reduces downtime and  operating costs, and improves ease-of-use for consumers. In the automotive sector, the technology enables a new level of interior experiences and seat dynamics. In industrial  systems, it provides near-unconstrained levels of design freedom, such as for automated  guided vehicles or robotic applications. Additionally, the technology allows for a fully sealed  system design, eliminating the need for charging ports which contributes to reducing global  consumption of batteries. 

“With our partner approach we prove once more the ability to unlocking the full system-level  benefits of Infineon’s CoolGaN technology, enabling compactness and efficiency,” said Falk  Herm, Global Partnership & Ecosystem Management at Infineon’s Power & Sensor Systems (PSS) Division at Infineon. “The combination of AWL-E and Infineon’s  complementary capabilities demonstrates how the features of GaN, namely operating at MHz frequencies, change the paradigm of what can be done with power transistors, driving  greener and better performing products.” 

“Infineon uniquely brings you into their family with a recognition that a strong ecosystem  ultimately solves today’s power needs,” said Francis Beauchamp-Verdon, Co-founder, VP  and Business Development Director at AWL-E. “Infineon’s GaN transistors, eval boards,  and partner opportunities have boosted acceptance of our GaN-based MHz power coupling  systems.

Infineon is a leader in the power semiconductor market and currently the only manufacturer  mastering all power technologies while offering the broadest product and technology  portfolio of silicon (such as SJ MOSFETs, IGBTs), silicon carbide (such as Schottky diodes  and MOSFETs) and gallium-nitride-based (e-mode HEMT) devices, covering bare die,  discretes, and modules.