Cree Enters into Distribution Agreement with Arrow Electronics

By Anil Sharma

TMCnet Contributor

 

Cree, Inc., a major player in LED lighting and silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor components, reportedly has entered into a distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, Inc. for Cree (News - Alert) SiC power products.

 

Thanks to the agreement, Arrow’s customers will now have ready access to Cree’s latest commercially available SiC Junction Barrier Schottky (JBS) products.

 

Cree officials said that among the company’s products available through Arrow will be the recently released Z-REC Series of 600-V Schottky diodes and the groundbreaking 1200-V Schottky diode line.

 

“Our customers are at the leading edge of green power designs,” said Robert Behn, vice president of supplier marketing for Arrow Electronics (News - Alert), in a statement.

 

Behn said that expanding Cree product offerings from high-brightness and high-power LEDs to now include power products provides the company’s customers even broader access to the products and support they need.

 

“Together, Cree and Arrow intend to accelerate the adoption of silicon carbide power semiconductors to create more efficient switching power supplies, alternative energy converters and motor drives,” said Bob Pollock, Cree senior vice president, sales.

 

Recently Cree announced the release of a new GaN HEMT MMIC power amplifier, the CMPA0060025F, which offers 25 Watts output power over an instantaneous bandwidth of 20 MHz to 6 GHz.

 

According to company officials, this product is ideal for military and ISM (industrial, scientific and medical) applications that require high power and broadband amplification up to 6GHz.

 

The CMPA0060025F is packaged within a 0.25 square inch footprint, making it one of the smallest high-power amplifiers covering this bandwidth available in the marketplace. The MMIC can operate with supply voltages up to 50 volts and typically has 12 dB of power gain.