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Its a material that basically gives electrons "inertia" which acts like an inductance derived from magnetic fields. There is a time constant to it, which determ
by wbraun 6y ago
Its a material that basically gives electrons "inertia" which acts like an inductance derived from magnetic fields. There is a time constant to it, which determines at what frequency range it starts contributing to the inductance value.
To make it useful for power electronics they would have to push out this time constant by at least 4 orders of magnitude, I don't believe the theoretical material properties support that.
You might see this shaving off a few mm^2 from RF ICs and providing better RF performance. Applications in power electronics, where inductors take up the most volume, seems unlikely.
- rini17 6y agoPerhaps power electronics will move to higher frequencies, too.
- coryrc 6y agoWill have to drive gate and source capacitance down a few orders a magnitude to make that a reasonable trade-off.
- bsder 6y ago> Perhaps power electronics will move to higher frequencies, too. They just did thanks to GaN transistors. The limitations in power electronics generally aren't the inductors.
- superkuh 6y agoOn the flipside, kinetic inductance detectors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_inductance_detector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_inductance_detector) for astronomy have been around since ~2000 and in the low light single photon regime they have much less noise on readout than photoelectric detectors (CCD/CMOS/etc).