Integrated passive device maker OnChip Devices Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA says that its wafer fabrication facility is offering backside metallization (BSM) of thin films for applications such as military, medical, and instrumentation. ...
Tags: Sputtering, HB-LEDs, GaN-on-Si, Wafer bonding
The global chip-on-board (COB) LED market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 35.51% during 2016-2020, according to a report by market research firm TechNavio. Key COB LED vendors are listed as Citizen Electronics, Cree, ...
Tags: COB LEDs Lighting market
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for wireless connectivity and cellular mobility, has launched a new family of ultra-miniature 2.4GHz RF front-end IC ...
Tags: RFaxis CMOS, amplifier
Light and electricity dance a complicated tango in devices like LEDs, solar cells and sensors. A new anti-reflection coating developed by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, in collaboration with researchers at the ...
Tags: anti-reflection coating, electronic device, semiconductor
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd in the UK has been improving its indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-on-silicon light-emitting diode (LED) technology [Liyang Zhang et al, Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol3, p457, 2015]. A light output ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon LEDs, Plessey MOCVD
Glass and metal packaging company Ardagh Group won gold at this year’s Cans of the Year Awards in Scotland. Ardagh produced a partial internal lacquer in a DWI can for ConAgra Foodservice’s Hunt’s tomatoes in the US, and ...
A room from the the "Apartment of Dreams Come True". [Photo/art-ba-ba.com] An icy wind blows through the streets of Beijing as we head for the northeastern part of the capital. We are driving to a neighborhood called Cuigezhuang, which ...
A team of Florida State University materials researchers has developed a new type of light-emitting diode, or LED, using an organic-inorganic hybrid that could lead to cheaper, brighter and mass produced lights and displays in the future. ...
Tags: LEDs, LED lighting, displays
ESCATEC, one of Europe's leading providers of contract design and manufacturing services, will be launching its solution to the challenge of effectively cooling high brightness LEDs on its stand E8 at the LED Professional Symposium 2015 in ...
Tags: ESCATECLED, Heat Spreading Solution, Cooling Technology
Cities looking to beautify their neighborhoods through cleanup and restoration efforts can quickly and easily reduce unsightly graffiti with Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Anti-Graffiti Coating. The coating prevents graffiti from ...
Tags: Sherwin-Williams, Anti-Graffiti Coating, graffiti problems
Packaging firm Litecool has opened a clean room facility in the UK, for conducting research on LED packaging technologies, resulting in in-house transition of conception into pre-production. The new unit, armed with the equipment for ...
Tags: LED Packaging, LED arrays
Driven by massive reduction in expenses, Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd (FSFL) slipped in to profits in the fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2015 as against a steep loss in the same quarter of previous fiscal. In a BSE filing, the ...
At PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), silicon carbide (SiC)-based power product maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA — exhibiting with distributor partner MEV Elektronik Service GmbH ...
Tags: Power Conversion, Cree
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has launched a high-linearity 6W power amplifier, suited to ...
Tags: Power Amplifier, Electronics
Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been producing 610nm-wavelength red lasers with III-nitride nanowires (NWs) grown on silicon [Shafat Jahangir et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p071108, 2015]. With a view to plastic fiber optical ...
Tags: plastic fiber, Electronics