TY - CONF A1 - Koch, Dominik A1 - Polezhaev, Vladimir A1 - Sharma, Ankit Bushan A1 - Munoz Barón, Kevin A1 - Huesgen, Till A1 - Kallfass, Ingmar T1 - Application-Oriented Characterization of Thermally Optimized, Asymmetrical Single Chip Packages for 100 V GaN HEMTs T2 - Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) N2 - Gallium nitride transistors have a smaller die area compared to silicon-based devices, which can lead to thermal challenges in high current density applications. Therefore, thermally optimized packages with a high heat spreading capability in combination with small parasitic are necessary. This work investigates the thermal performance a 7 mΩ, 100 V GaN HEMT in a thermally optimized single chip package with integrated RTD and compares it to the commercial counterpart. The thermal optimized package shows a significantly better transient thermal impedance resulting in a static thermal resistance of 3.1 K/W, which is a 20 % reduction in comparison to the COTS package. The integrated RTD trace has a relative reaction time of 590 ms, which is 30-fold slower in comparison to the junction temperature. To show the identical electrical behavior, although the single chip package is larger, it is compared with the commercial off-the-shelf package and a 5 mΩ, 100 V GaN single chip package in a 300 kHz, 48 V buck converter. Both 7 mΩ versions have identical efficiencies of ≈97.5 % up to 50 A output current, slightly outperforming the 5 mΩ GaN transistor. With its combination of improved thermal characteristics and lowinductance, the thermally optimized package of the GaN device offers more degrees of freedom in the design of power converter to exploit trade-offs between longer lifetime, higher temperature operation and power density. Index Terms—gallium nitride, high electron mobility transistor, (thermal) performance evaluation, thermally optimized package, DC/DC converter, high current application, parallelization KW - GaNmsPEBB Y1 - 2023 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hs-kempten/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2030 SN - 979-8-3503-9682-9 SN - 979-8-3503-9683-6 VL - 2023 SP - 48 EP - 51 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway ER -