Cheaper Gallium Nitride: Gamechanger for High Performance Solar?

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Improvements in how Bulk Gallium Nitride, a semiconductor substrate, is manufactured could bring its cost down enough for it to realistically compete with silicon in the electronics world and some in solar. That’s what a recently released report from Lux Research found. “Wide-band-gap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride offer far higher performance than traditional silicon,” said researcher and report author Pallavi Madakasira. But...
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