Article: Cree Research Achieves Milestone for High Power Microwave Transistor

Company Demonstrates Silicon Carbide Chip with 53 Watts Output Power

DURHAM, N.C., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Cree Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), the world's leading manufacturer and supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and SiC-based semiconductor products, today announced it has demonstrated an SiC metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) with an output power of 53 watts under continuous wave operation at a frequency of 3.0 gigahertz. This result was achieved from a single chip with a die area of only 3 square millimeters.

John Palmour, Cree's Director of Advanced Devices and a co-founder of the company, commented on the development, ...

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