Some says “if it can be made on Silicon, it will be made on silicon”. Is that true for GaN too? And if so, can it be applied in all GaN-based applications: LED, power, RF and laser?… Yole Développement (Yole) ...
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Cambridge Nanotherm, the manufacturer of advanced Aluminium Nano-Ceramic substrate technology for the thermal management of electronic applications, installs the first of many fully automated lines. Nanotherm? production line extends the ...
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A lot of research has been done on graphene recently—carbon flakes, consisting of only one layer of atoms. As it turns out, there are other materials too which exhibit remarkable properties if they are arranged in a single layer. One ...
The National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnology as the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions of approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Nanotechnology ...
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IBM has built on their previous graphene research and developed what is being reported as the best graphene-based integrated circuit (IC) built to date, with 10 000 times better performance than previously reported efforts. This ...
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The global market for power discrete devices will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.43% over 2013-2018, forecasts a new report from TechNavio (the market research platform of Infiniti Research Ltd). According to the ...
Yole Developpement has forecasted that the grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. materials market will ...
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When molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) entered the conversation related to two-dimensional (2-D) alternatives to graphene in electronic applications, some thought that MoS2 had an edge as a transistor material. That thought was inspired by the ...
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Europe has become an area where special IC´s and electronic applications are being developed and produced, such as Sensors, MEMS, vision applications, specific IC’s, etcetera, in particular for semiconductor, automotive and ...
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German automaker Audi has unveiled its new crossover concept car, Audi allroad shooting brake, at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. Audi allroad shooting brake is a two-door show car with the combination of ...
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The TOWA Corporation of Japan, which supplies packaging (molding and singulation) equipment for the semiconductor, electronics and LED industries, has expanded its activities in Europe with an Innovation Center for Packaging Development via ...
The current promotion of FBR polysilicon technology will begin mass production next year allowing production costs for poly silicon to gradually decrease to US $10/kg (NT $296), said Lu Jinbiao, vice chairman of GCL-Poly Energy Holding ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Despite graphene's many impressive properties, its lack of a bandgap limits its use in electronic applications. In a new study, scientists have theoretically shown that a bandgap can be opened in graphene by folding 2D graphene sheets ...
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