Soitec of Bernin, France has announced a new step in its SmartCell project by raising the record for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) module solar energy conversion efficiency from 36.7% (announced in July 2014) to 38.9% Previously (last ...
Exagan of Grenoble, France, a gallium nitride (GaN) technology start-up that enables smaller and more efficient electrical converters, has raised €5.7m in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN switching device
At SID's Display Week 2015 event in San Jose, CA, USA (31 May-5 June), Grenoble-based micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of France announced that it has demonstrated a path to fabricating high-density micro-LED arrays for the next ...
Tags: Leti III-V lab microLED, Electrical, Electronics, LED
X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany and Exagan of Grenoble and Toulouse, France have entered into a joint development agreement to industrialize Exagan's GaN-on-silicon technology, begin producing high-speed power switching ...
Presto Engineering, a world leader in semiconductor product engineering, test and turnkey solutions, is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with several France-based organizations to reduce the cost of test of 4G RF devices. ...
Bernin-based Soitec (which makes engineered substrates and CPV systems) and Grenoble-based micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE of Freiburg, Germany, have ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Electrical
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has achieved record photovoltaic (PV) solar module efficiency of 36.7%, as measured under Concentrator Standard Testing Conditions (CSTC). This has been done by ...
Tags: PV Module, Solar Energy Systems
Riber S.A.of Bezons,France,which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells,has received a major order for the modernization of the fleet of R&D and pilot production MBE systems used ...
Tags: Riber MBE III-V lab, Riber, Iii-V Lab
Earlier in December, concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France was informed that the European Commission (EC) has approved financing for the five-year Gupard program, which was launched in May 2012 to develop a ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, PV
This new contract aims to support Soitec's strategy for the electronics, solar energy and lighting markets. It will focus on engineered substrates and materials offering higher performances and energy savings at a competitive cost. As the ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Electronics
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, and CEA (the French Atomic and Renewable Energy Commission) have renewed their long-standing partnership for the ...
Tags: Soitec of Bernin, Electrical
The European Space Agency’s Swarm expedition was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 22 November, on a mission to study how the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere vary in time and space. It started sending back data four ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin ...
Tags: Fraunhofer ISE Leti Soitec CPV Helmholtz, Electrical, Electronics
CEA-Leti will present recent advances and a preview of future developments in micro- and nanotechnologies, followed by workshops on key technical fields, during Leti Innovation Days, June 25-28, on the MINATEC campus. The gathering ...
Tags: Leti Innovation, Nanotechnologies
Stapp brings more than a dozen years of executive experience in LED lighting technologies to Aledia, most recently in senior management positions at OSRAM, a global leader in SSL manufacturing and marketing. As general manager and senior ...