Clifton

Clifton is an innovative high-tech company producing gallium arsenide semiconductors for power electronics.

Clifton has developed an industrially stable process for gallium arsenide Liquid Phase Epitaxy, and is using it to manufacture dies for high temperature ultra-fast recovery PIN power diodes. Compared to conventional Silicon diodes, GaAs has superior performance characteristics, including: * higher maximum junction temperature (up to +260 Celsius) * temperature independent dynamic recovery characteristics * lower leakage current * radiation hardness * high reverse voltage capability (up to 1000V)