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chances are you don't think a whole lot about the charger you use to power up

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your phone your laptop or electric toothbrush you plug it in it clops your

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gadget with electronics and a little while later you got a full charge simple

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right well it turns out that the electronics industry is very interested

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in making a fundamental change to charging technology to be specific

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they're looking at moving away from conventional silicon and switching to a

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new material called gallium nitride but why would they stop using something so

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tried and true to answer we reached out to our friends at anker and we'd like to

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thank them for their insight so like other electronics chargers contain

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semiconductors like silicon that control current flow and a semiconductor is a

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material that allows some electricity to flow but not tons of it hence the name

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however not all semiconductors are the same and one of the main ways that they

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differ from each other is in something called a band gap all a bandgap is is an

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energy range where no electrons can exist gallium nitride's band gap is

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nearly triple that of silicons meaning it can conduct electrons at higher

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voltages but the band gap isn't so high that it turns it into an insulator which

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can't conduct electrons very well at all because gallium nitride chargers can use

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high voltages they can conduct electrons about a thousand times more efficiently

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than silicon charges can this efficiency gives them a few distinct advantages

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that are relevant to you and me buddy boy one you can make a charger quite a

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bit smaller so instead of having a phone charger that like blocks the other

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outlets or laptop brick that weighs down your backpack you'll have an efficient

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gallium nitride charger that can push a high number of watts two you might see

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chargers that are a little more versatile as the more efficient nature

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of gallium nitride means that it'll be easier to make chargers that can charge

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multiple devices at once or incorporate additional features such as multiple

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plugs for different countries without taking up a ton of space three they

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should eventually be cheaper currently the few gallium nitrate chargers that

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exist on the market are more expensive than their silicon counterparts since

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silicon is so widely available plus they're subject to the dreaded early

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adopter tax like most new electronics however because gallium nitride is so

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much more efficient manufacturers won't need as much of it to construct a

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charger which will drive costs down to the point that they might be less

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expensive on average than today's silicon chargers and it's not like

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gallium nitride is a completely unknown material that we can't manufacture in

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large quantities indeed it actually started being used in a large scale in

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led lights way back in the 1990s and i

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was alive back then you also won't need a device that's specifically compatible

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with a gallium nitride charger to take advantage of these benefits thank god

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and if you're a fan of fast charging gallium nitride will be especially

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important as its higher efficiency will allow fast charging to be deployed to

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more devices of course it might be

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a while before we see gallium nitride charges become just as common as silicon

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based ones but you can grab one today if you're willing to spend a little more

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money some current chargers can push as much as 100 watts current chargers so

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they might be worth it if you often need high capacity charging but find yourself

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