Semiconductor process equipment maker SAMCO Inc has held a completion ceremony for its second production center (a two-floor steel-framed building adjacent to the headquarters in Kyoto, Japan), which began construction in January and is ...
Tags: Semiconductor, PECVD, MOCVD
In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has purchased a large number of its latest metrology systems for fab-wide metal-organic chemical vapor ...
At the International Symposium on 3D Power Electronics, Integration and Manufacturing Symposium in Raleigh, NC, USA (13-15 June), power management component supplier Sarda Technologies of Durham, NC, USA announced a collaboration to ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received the first order from a Chinese customer for its GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. Nanjing University is scheduled to ...
Semiconductor firm Qualcomm has unveiled a new platform to simplify integration of advanced connectivity technologies into new vehicles. The Qualcomm Connected Car Reference Platform intends to speed up the implementation of of advanced ...
Tags: Qualcomm, Connected Car
VisIC Technologies Ltd of Nes Ziona, Israel, a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) founded in 2010, has announced the ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, power transistor
Ireland's Tyndall National Institute (based at University College Cork) is leading the European consortium TOP-HIT (Transfer-print OPerations for Heterogeneous INtegration) to develop novel technology that will address the challenge of ...
STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland says that its silicon carbide (SiC) metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) devices have enabled the ZapCharger Portable (claimed to be the world's smallest ...
Tags: transistor, Electric-Car Charger
RJR Technologies Inc of Oakland, CA, USA, a developer and high-volume manufacturer of air-cavity plastic (ACP) semiconductor packaging for RF and microwave markets, has shipped over 10 million ACP packages, reflecting the increasing use of ...
A new highly efficient power amplifier (PA) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS could help to make possible next-generation cell phones, low-cost collision-avoidance radar for cars and lightweight microsatellites for communications, ...
Tags: Power Amplifier, Cell Phones
For first-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...
Tags: Rubicon Sapphire, substrates
For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 31 March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA - which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets - has ...
Tags: Emcore, optical chips
Materials, component and precision system supplier Ferrotec Corp of Santa Clara, CA, USA (whose Temescal division of Livermore, CA, USA makes electron-beam-based evaporative coating systems) says that a Temescal UEFC series evaporator - the ...
Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a group of researchers has synthesized a stack of atomically thin monolayers of two lattice-mismatched semiconductors (Xufan Li et al, 'Two-dimensional GaSe/MoSe2 ...
Chien-Chung Lin, Huang-Yu Lin, Kuo-Ju Chen, Sheng-Wen Wang, Kuan-Yu Wang, Jie-Ru Li, Huang-Ming Chen and Hao-Chung Kuo The use of distributed Bragg reflectors in remote-phosphor white-LED packaging significantly improves luminous ...
Tags: White LED Packaging