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		The New World of Gallium Nitride (hackaday.com)
		1 point by peter_d_sherman on May 14, 2019 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

peter_d_sherman on May 14, 2019 [–]

Excerpt:

"In research funded by NASA’s Hot Operating Temperature Technology (HOTTech) program, P-N junctions fabricated out of gallium nitride were found to operate very well at temperatures of 500 °C."

...And you thought your Pentium 4 ran hot...<g>

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