For small petrol engines,Freescale has introduced an analogue mop-up chip to fire the ignition,pump the fuel injection,and read sensors in engine management systems. "Small engine makers are increasingly deploying electronic engine ...
Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a series of colorful LEDs in white,blue,green,yellow,yellow green,orange and red mounted on a 0402 ChipLED package.The latest and advanced InGaN and AllnGaP technology is used in the white and blue LEDs ...
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EPC launches WiTricity demo system featuring high-frequency eGaN FETs Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) ...
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The power discrete and module market will grow by almost$9bn to$26.2bn in 2016,forecasts the 15th edition of an annual report from IMS Research,which this year includes more comparisons of wide-bandgap(silicon carbide and gallium ...
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Power electronics device market to reach $20bn this year The total market for semiconductor devices (discretes, modules and ICs) dedicated to the power electronics industry will reach $20bn in 2012, according to the report 'Status of the ...
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4 June 2012 Cascade launches first fully automatic high-power device measurement probe system Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton,OR,USA,which provides equipment for the precision contact,electrical measurement and test of ICs,optical ...
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Guest writer Bruce Haug,senior product marketing engineer at Linear Technology describes how a chipset can simplify the design of high-performance forward converters,making them an easy to build and compelling alternative to prefabricated ...
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A little bit of semiconductor magic made a lot of difference to RF power amplifiers,and looks like it will do the same for mains PSUs. That magic is the'two-dimensional electron gas'that forms between layers in certain semiconductor ...
Tags: GaN, semiconductor, RF power amplifiers, GaAs, SiC, PSU, JFET
Efficient Power Conversion Corp(EPC)of El Segundo,CA,USA,which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon(eGaN)power field-effect transistors(FETs)used in power management applications,says that Dr David Reusch has joined its ...
''Gallium nitride power transistors are poised to move out of the labs and into mains PSUs and motor drives,'' was one message from the PCIM power show in Nuremberg this month. ''Only if the price drops and designers can bear the ...
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RWTH Aachen University and Aixtron SE in Germany have developed a new technique to create aluminium oxide insulated gates for nitride semiconductor transistors[Herwig Hahn et al,Semicond.Sci.Technol.,vol27,p062001,2012].The method consists ...
Tags: Plasma oxidation, RWTH Aachen University, Aixtron SE, GaN
Toshiba has announced at the PCIM exhibition in Germany a new generation of superjunction(SJ)technology for power mosfets.The new DTMOS-IV process,which is being deployed in the company's latest family of high-speed,high-efficiency 600V ...
Lite-On Semiconductor will start to ship its in-house produced MOSFETs in the second quarter of 2012, according to the company, adding that the new product line is expected to help grow production utilization at its 6-inch wafer fab. ...
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ROHM Semiconductor unveiled its new high power, high brightness white chip LED SMLx family with reflector (PLCC2 & high heat radiation packages) for automotive backlighting applications. Today, the increased functionality of clusters, car ...
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ROHM Semiconductor unveiled its new high power, high brightness white chip LED SMLx family with reflector (PLCC2 & high heat radiation packages) for automotive backlighting applications. Today, the increased functionality of clusters, car ...
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