Test, measurement and monitoring equipment supplier Tektronix Inc of Beaverton, OR, USA has expanded its family of precision power analyzers with the introduction of the PA1000 single-phase power analyzer. Featuring a patent-pending ...
Tags: power, electrical
Solexant Corp of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new corporate identity as Siva Power, the culmination of a two-year transition to a platform that aims to create a profitable path to sub-$0.40 per watt solar power, along with what it ...
Tags: NREL PVMC CIGS, Electrical, Electronics, PV
Scientists from IBM and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic hydrogel that can deliver ...
Tags: Cancer Drug, Medicine
ARPA-E Deputy Director Cheryl Martin today announced $27 million in funding from the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices ...
Due to the slow growth in the GaAs device market and increasing use of multi-band GaAs power amplifiers in cellular applications, total demand for semi-insulating (SI) GaAs epitaxial substrates (from manufacturers such as IQE, VPEC, Kopin, ...
Tags: EPI Production, Electronics
A strong close to 2012 allowed the gallium arsenide device market to grow by about 2% to record revenue of slightly more than $5.3bn for the year, due mainly to the cellular segment, as most other segments for GaAs devices were flat or ...
Tags: GaAs Industry, Electrical
Analyst: existing solar tech to miss 'SunShot' goal 25 Sep 2013 Lux Research says that large corporations must partner with academia to innovate. PV adoption roadmap through 2030 The US Department of Energy's ambitious "SunShot" ...
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has launched a broadband, microwave voltage-controlled attenuator. The RFSA2113 provides a complete monolithic solution in a small 3mm x 3mm QFN package and operates over a frequency range of ...
Tags: RFMD Attenuators, Power Control
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that its advanced plasma processing workshop, held at KANC (Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center), attracted nearly 100 engineers and researchers from 25 companies and ...
Tags: Plasma-Therm, Semiconductor
Funded by the US Army Research Office, researchers at North Carolina State University ( at the atomic scale (just one atom thick). The technique can be used to create the thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are ...
Tags: NCSU, Atomic-Layer Thin-Film
Semiconductor design for automotive systems is an important and growing technology capability for European companies, according to Jean-Marie Saint-Paul, European director at Mentor Graphics. "Europe's strong car industry is a big ...
Tags: Car, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor
According to analyst firm Gartner, in-memory computing is “racing towards mainstream adoption”. Gartner believes that the "rapid maturation of application infrastructure technologies" and a continued "dramatic decline in the ...
Tags: in-memory computing, rapid penetration, Computer Products
PPG Industries has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for “significant achievements” in advancing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting technology. Dennis O’Shaughnessy, Ph.D., PPG associate ...
Tags: PPG Industries, OLED Lighting, Electrical
The 11.8m Euro pan-European project NEWLED (‘Nanostructured Efficient White LEDs based on short-period superlattices and quantum dots’) is aiming to develop a new generation of 50-60% energy-efficient white light-emitting LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, LEDlighting
Infineon has got customer go-aheads for manufacturing power semiconductors on 300mm thin wafers in its CoolMOS family. CoolMOS is produced by the 300mm line at Villach. The production process has completed qualification from start to ...
Tags: Infineon, power semiconductors, CoolMOS