EPC partners with Solace Power to incorporate eGaN FETs in 250W wireless power platforms

Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA – which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications – is collaborating with Solace Power, a developer of intelligent wireless power-based solutions featuring proximity sensing and data, to enable 250W wireless power solutions designed for 5G, aerospace, automotive, medical and industrial applications. Solace Power’s intelligent wireless platform uses EPC’s 200V eGaN power transistors. This modular platform shares the same Equus architecture and enables up to 250W of transmitted power with six degrees of spatial freedom.

“We’re excited to collaborate with EPC to further push the limits of our capacitive wireless power platform and to deliver previously unachievable solutions with a higher power requirement,” says Solace Power’s CEO Michael Gotlieb. “Solace focuses on delivering complete, modular systems which are pre-tested for CISPR/FCC compliance and optimized in-house for rapid development in real-world applications,” he adds. “These new solutions solve the most important challenges for applications requiring 200W or more.”

For wireless power applications with higher power demands than traditional consumer devices, existing silicon-based transistors become inefficient, notes EPC. To address this limitation, Solace selected a 200V GaN-based power transistor from EPC for the 250W solution.

“Wireless power is ready to be incorporated into our daily lives, and the modular platform that Solace Power has developed, using highly efficient, low-cost GaN transistors, will improve design cycle times and help new industries implement wireless power quickly and inexpensively,” says EPC’s CEO & co-founder Alex Lidow.

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