Qorvo GaN Solutions

Qorvo is your smart RF partner for building solutions using Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology. No longer a technology just for defense and aerospace applications, GaN is enabling higher and higher frequencies in more complex applications, such as phased arrays, radar, base transceiver stations for 5G, cable TV (CATV), VSAT, and defense communications. Qorvo provides proven, record-setting GaN circuit reliability and compact, high-efficiency products. This paves the way for more robust performance, lower operating costs and longer operational lifetimes.

GaN devices are especially well suited for high-power applications that operate at high frequencies, such as radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers for electronic warfare (EW), radar, satellite communications, and mobile communication infrastructure. GaN offers advantages in many other RF circuit functions as well.

GaN devices can operate at higher bias voltages, which provides several advantages at both the system/subsystem and circuit level. A higher operating voltage leads to a proportional decrease in current requirement for the circuit, presuming the power level is held constant. Decreasing the required current for a circuit makes the system more efficient by reducing power supply distribution loss throughout the system. Minimizing that loss (which is converted to heat) reduces thermal management challenges. The bottom line: GaN improves the system-level trade-off of size, weight, and power.