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A gate-termination extension is a layout change, not a new material, and that is what makes this worth reading twice. If single-event hardness improves through geometry, radiation-tolerant GaN stops being a bespoke process nobody will run and becomes something a commercial fab can be talked into. That is the actual bottleneck for anyone building power conversion for low Earth orbit.

The hiring consequence is that space power teams are competing for GaN device and layout engineers against the terrestrial power market, and losing on money. The people worth approaching are device physicists and layout engineers inside commercial power semiconductor firms who have never touched radiation effects. Radiation is learnable in a way that GaN device design is not, and most space primes still recruit as though the opposite were true.

Read the original at Power Electronics News .

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This is one of the markets we recruit in every day. These are the markets where the paperwork is the product. Certification, traceability and export control decide who can be hired long before the electronics do, and the engineers who have carried a design through DO-254 are a much smaller population than the ones who can do the design.

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