The LED lighting module market (including flexible LED strips) reached nearly $4bn in 2016 and is rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.6% during 2017-2022 to $13.8bn, boosted by the emergence of innovative functions and the ...
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“The SiC power business is concrete and real, with a promising outlook,” said Yole Développement in 2016. The trend has not changed in 2017, and the SiC industry is going even further as industrial players have increasing ...
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Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA (which makes high-power semiconductor laser components) has announced the commercial availability of its actively cooled laser bars, emitting 200W of ...
O-Net Technologies (Group) Ltd of Shenzhen, China (which provides optical networking products for telecoms and datacoms applications) has launched a 980nm uncooled pump laser in small-form-factor TO-Can package, a high-power laser for ...
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has filed a lawsuit, together with its affiliate Seoul Viosys Co Ltd, in the US District Court for the Central District of California asserting that Archipelago Lighting Inc is selling ...
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German luxury auto-brand Audi has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hanergy Thin Film Power Group for cooperation on thin film solar cell technology in China. The thin film solar panels will be installed on the rooftops of ...
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The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $30m in funding for 21 projects as part of the CIRCUITS program (‘Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies ...
Tags: WBG devices, electronics devices
Wolfspeed of Raleigh, NC, USA — a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) power products and GaN-on-SiC high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) — has extended its ...
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Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has expanded its product lineup of infrared light-emitting diode (IR-LED) chips, which are mainly used as parts of photo-couplers for gate drivers in power semiconductor modules and parts of sensors for ...
In the ever-growing LED market, automotive LEDs are witnessing a rapid development. This is driven by various regulations enforced by governments around the world for fuel-efficient gasoline vehicles. In addition, manufacturers of hybrid ...
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LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has launched a family of high-power infrared (IR) emitters designed to address the vast array of rapidly growing IR applications, ranging from facial recognition/iris and gesture scanning to wearable ...
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has expanded its family of architectural lighting class LEDs with the new CLQ6A RGBW (red, green, blue and white) LED. Claimed to be the first individually addressable ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced a new product category of high-power Bluetooth power amplifiers for mobile applications targeting Wi-Fi-enabled ...
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Wireless Inc. Asia research & development manager Morino Ebizo has said that his team has completed trials of a new way to transmit power to appliances as they move closer and further from its original source. The application of a ...
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The global compound semiconductor market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.47% during 2017-2021, forecasts market research firm Technavio. The report ‘Global Compound Semiconductor Market 2017-2021’ ...