Gallium nitride (GaN) is a wide band-gap semiconductor that enables faster switching, higher efficiency, and greater power density than traditional silicon solutions. This allows for smaller, lighter designs with improved thermal performance and lower power loss. TI GaN technology supports a broad range of applications, including consumer electronics, data centers, grid and telecom infrastructure, and automotive power electronics, maintaining high performance and reliability.
Why choose our GaN technology?
Faster switching speeds, higher efficiency
Our GaN devices with integrated drivers enable faster slew rates of up to 150V/ns. Higher switching speeds, combined with a low-inductance packaging and reduced switching losses, support clean switching, minimize ringing, and improve overall efficiency.
Smaller systems, higher power density
Reduced switching losses allow our GaN devices to operate at frequencies above 500kHz, resulting in up to 60% smaller magnetics. This helps reduce system size, increase power density and lower overall system cost.
Built for reliability
Our GaN devices are designed for high-voltage systems reliability, using a proprietary GaN-on-Si process, backed by more than 80 million hours of reliability testing, and supported by robust integrated protection features.
GaN technology at scale
We produce our complete GaN portfolio across multiple internally owned fabs, ensuring reliable supply and scalable production across industries. Building on our history of GaN innovation, we're successfully delivering customer samples of GaN technology manufactured on 300mm wafers.
Explore our GaN portfolio
Unlock higher power density and efficiency with GaN
As power demands increase, GaN adoption continues to accelerate in next-generation architectures. Our fully integrated GaN power stages combine GaN HEMTs, drivers, protection, and control into a one-chip solution, designed for applications including data centers, server power, solar inverters, industrial systems, automotive and more.
- Enable high switching frequency up to 1MHz for smaller magnetics and higher power density.
- Reduce switching losses to improve efficiency and simplify bias circuitary.
- Integrate driver and protection to simplify design and rerduce loop parasitics.
Achieving GaN Products With Lifetime Reliability
Application of GaN FET in Humanoid Robots
3.6kW, 54V, single-phase, AC-to-DC rectifier reference design with all GaN switches
Featured products for GaN power stages
Improve performance & simplify power supply design
Our AC/DC products with integrated GaN technology are designed for next-generation applications, including adapters, appliances, server power, and chargers. By integrating high-performance GaN HEMTs like in the UCG28826, these solutions deliver industry-leading power density, high efficiency and low standby power.
- Simplify design and improve efficiency with self-bias and auxless sensing.
- Reduce BoM cost by integrating high-voltage startup, X-capacitor discharge, and protection features.
- Support EMC compliances with quasi-resonant switching, burst mode operation, slew rate control.
How an auxless GaN flyback converter can solve AC/DC adapter design challenges (Rev. A)
65W USB-C® charger demonstration with self-biasing GaN flyback
USB Power Delivery charger with self-biasing GaN flyback converter reference design
Buck and boost converters with integrated GaN FETs
Designed for smaller, lighter and more efficient power systems, these solutions reduce traditional trade-offs between size, efficiency and performance. By leveraging advanced GaN technology, engineers can achieve higher performance than is possible with silicon-based designs.
- Deliver higher power in smaller solution sizes.
- Achieve high efficiency for demanding high power applications.
- Simplify design by integrating GaN FETs, controller, drivers, and bootstrap circuit in one package.
48V–12V GaN-enabled 2kW four-phase buck converter, 1/4th brick power module reference design
3V to 42V synchronous GaN boost converter reference design
Driver higher efficiency, power density & smooth control
Our integrated GaN motor drivers, including the industry leading GaN intelligent power modules (IPMs), deliver >99% inverter efficiency, improve thermal performance and minimize power loss. For applications like home appliances, robotics, e-bikes, drones and power tools, our GaN drivers provide superior harmonic control for quieter operation, smoother performance, and precise motor control. This reduces system costs, energy consumption, and enables compact designs meeting efficiency requirements.
- Reduce PCB size by over 50% with integrated GaN half-bridge power stages.
- Reduce power losses by up to 50% at high switching frequencies (100kHz).
- Minimize dead time (<150ns) and optimize switching to reduce current distortion for better acoustics.
How Three-Phase Integrated GaN Technology Maximizes Motor-Drive Performance
48v 1kw robot joint motor control with industrial communication reference design
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Revolutionizing high-voltage power with TI GaN
Revolutionize your high-voltage system with TI GaN. Watch how our GaN technology enables engineers to reduce time-to-market for high-voltage power conversion designs, while decreasing system cost and environmental impact.
Three reasons GaN is changing power management
Featured applications
Transforming telecom and server power for tomorrow's computing demands
Design telecom and server power systems for storage, cloud and high-performance computing using our GaN devices. These devices help meet demanding efficiency requirements supporting up to 80 PLUS® Titanium standards and enabling power-factor correction (PFC) efficiency above 99%.Enable switching frequencies above 500kHz in isolated DC/DC converters, and reduce magnetics size while minimizing parasitic losses with integrated design
Revolutionize energy storage with unparalleled efficiency and density
Design solar and energy storage systems using GaN devices to achieve smaller, more efficient AC/DC power conversion. GaN enables bidirectional power flow, allowing seamless integration of energy storage into solar inverters and reducing dependence on the grid. These solutions deliver up to 3 times higher power density (>1.2 kW/L) than traditional converters, with 20% better density than SiC FETs through high-frequency GaN switching (140kHz). GaN technology reduces system cost via smaller magnetics and simpler topologies compared to 2-level SiC designs.
Power everyday devices with unmatched performance
Our integrated low-power GaN devices deliver exceptional power density and efficiency benefits to everyday consumer applications including mobile phone and laptop adapters, TV power supply units and USB wall outlets. With system efficiency exceeding 95%, these solutions can reduce consumer AC/DC solution sizes by as much as 50%, while their integrated current sensing capabilities further enhance efficiency and minimize printed circuit board footprint.
Enable high power density in electric vehicles with our GaN technology
The next generation of single-phase AC on-board chargers (OBCs) and high-to-low-voltage DC/DC converters in hybrid-electric (HEV) and electric vehicles (EV) are leveraging GaN power devices to achieve higher switching frequencies and reduce magnetics size, delivering superior power density compared to silicon and SiC-based alternatives. These solutions offerprovide more power than SiC at equivalent volumes, with switching frequencies exceeding 500kHz for CLLLC and 120kHz for PFC, while achieving 96.5% combined system-level efficiency and featuring integrated gate drivers that significantly simplify system-level design.
Realize higher power efficiency and a smaller form factor in motor drives for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and appliances with our GaN devices
Efficient motor drives are essential for appliances and HVAC systems to meet stringent energy standards around the world, and our portfolios of GaN power stages and intelligent power modules (IPMs) deliver higher efficiency compared to IGBTs and MOSFETs, effectively reducing system size and cost. These solutions achieve motor drive power stages with efficiency exceeding 99% through reduced switching losses, while their small size, high integration, and natural cooling capabilities further minimize system dimensions and expenses, all while providing improved acoustics with higher switching frequencies up to 60kHz and lower dead time.