Researchers based in USA have been studying performance improvements in aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) ultraviolet (UV) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) gained from using free-standing gallium nitride substrates instead of gallium nitride on ...
Tags: AlGaN, Ultraviolet photodetectors, HVPE
A Dartmouth College team has created the first light-sensing system that reconstructs human postures continuously and unobtrusively, furthering efforts to create smart spaces in which people control their environment with simple gestures. ...
Global sales of photonic sensors and detectors will increase from $6.3 billion in 2013, an estimated $7.3 billion in 2014 and will reach $15.2 billion in 2019, according to a new market study by analyst BCC Research. This growth equates to ...
Tags: photonic sensors, detectors, ICT market
Jules Verne said in Around the World in 80 Days: “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” Today, that is truer than ever before. Did you ever think it would be possible to communicate so easily with anyone around ...
Tags: LED streetlights, LED lighting
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced early sampling of a 400Gb/s high electro-optic bandwidth lithium niobate (LiNbO3) external modulator for designing ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2015 (to end-June), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA (which provides compound semiconductor-based chip-level devices, optical components, subsystems and systems for broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets) has ...
KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has used corrugated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (CELOG) to create heterojunctions consisting of n-type indium phosphide (n-InP) and p-type silicon (p-Si) [Y. T. Sun et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Tags: corrugated epitaxial, silicon
Over the past 10 years, visible light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been adopted widely in many different applications, as prices have fallen and new technologies have been developed to make full use of them. The infrared LED market is now ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, IR LED, LED market
Soitec of Bernin, near Grenoble, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, has announced a definitive agreement to sell its solar system business - including all technology assets and ...
Tags: Soitec, Core Semiconductor
In booth 616 at the SPIE Photonics West 2015 event in San Francisco's Moscone Center (7-12 February), Marktech Optoelectronics of Latham, NY, USA, whose capabilities span wafer growth through finished packaging and custom solutions, is to ...
Tags: photodetectors, Electrical
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which provides compound semiconductor-based optical components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics market, has completed the sale of its tunable laser and transceiver ...
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and space solar power markets, has entered into a definitive purchase agreement for NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, ...
Tags: Tunable Laser, Transceiver Product
For first-quarter 2014, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed ...
China's Nanjing University has produced silicon carbide (SiC) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with the lowest claimed dark count rate (DCR) at high temperatures of 150°C, compared with any other semiconductor material [Dong Zhou et al, ...
RoHS directive to exclude the contents of the original February 12, 2003 e Applications of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium, which are exempted from the requirements of Article 4(1) 1. Mercury in compact fluorescent ...
Tags: RoHS certification, certification, RoHS