Graham Sutherland / Polynomial on Nostr: TIL that there's an ongoing effort to make mixed AlN/AlGaN semiconductors for RF ...
TIL that there's an ongoing effort to make mixed AlN/AlGaN semiconductors for RF products and ~200nm UV lasers because AlN has some pretty interesting bandgaps and the thermal properties are too good to pass up. imagine how much RF power you could get out of a chip with a Rt[j-c] of 0.000005°C/W.
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