Evince Technology Ltd of Netpark, Sedgefield, County Durham, UK, which is developing technologies to enable the manufacture of synthetic diamond-based electronics, has closed its largest funding round to date, amounting to £750,240 in ...
Tags: Evince, Diamond, investment
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) say that they have developed a new method for making brighter and more efficient green LEDs (R. Liu and C. Bayram, 'Maximizing cubic phase gallium nitride surface coverage ...
Tags: Green LEDs, MOCVD
Osaka University in Japan has developed a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) process for the growth of gallium nitride (GaN) in a sodium (Na) flux with a small amount of carbon (C) that, with the addition of lithium (Li) and gallium, can also be ...
Honda Motor has co-developed the world's first hybrid vehicle motor magnet that uses no heavy rare earth elements. The automaker said the technology, developed with Daido Steel Co, will be used in the next Freed minivan due to go on sale ...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicle Motor, Rare Earth
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
Tags: semiconductors, Electronics
Ever more Taiwanese hand tool makers have ventured into the development of digital tools to secure sustainable growth, thanks to the nudging by ITRI.Development of digital tools has been regarded as one of Taiwan's hand tool industry's ...
The new 2017 Ford Escape provides 25% increase in front row storage and 15% increase in overall storage compared with existing model. Escape, the No. 2-selling Ford brand nameplate behind only F-Series, arrived in showrooms this month ...
Tags: Electronic Devices, Ford
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 ...
Following greatly increased use in the optical communications industry over the past 15 years, the global market for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) will grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.9% from ...
Tags: VCSELs, VCSEL Market, CAGR
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has launched 1310nm and 1550nm high-power ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, PICs
UK-based Cobham plc (which designs and manufactures equipment, specialized systems and components for the aerospace, defense, energy and electronics industries) has established a strategic partnership to incorporate the gallium nitride ...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, says that its GS66508P gallium nitride power transistors were ...
Tags: GaN Systems, E-mode GaN FETs, Power electronics inverters
General Motors is going to launch the European version of its Chevy Bolt in 2017 as Ampera-e. It is expected to be priced at $30,000. The announcement was made at the CAR Symposium in Bochum, Germany by General Motors CEO Mary Barra. ...
Tags: General Motors, Chevy Bolt
The global metal-organic chemical vapor phase deposition (MOCVD) market for power electronics is will rise at a striking compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 40% to more than $205m in 2019, according to the report 'Global MOCVD Market ...
Tags: MOCVD, Power electronics
Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ryukoku University and Microwave Chemical Co Ltd have jointly developed a microwave heating system that uses 500W-output gallium nitride (GaN) amplifier modules as heat sources. The ...