The pan-European REFERENCE research project - created to leverage disruptive radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) technology in developing industrial solutions for the performance, cost and integration needs of RF front-end modules ...
Tags: RF-SOI, ECSEL, 4G+communications
In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has purchased a large number of its latest metrology systems for fab-wide metal-organic chemical vapor ...
Ireland's Tyndall National Institute (based at University College Cork) is leading the European consortium TOP-HIT (Transfer-print OPerations for Heterogeneous INtegration) to develop novel technology that will address the challenge of ...
Materials, component and precision system supplier Ferrotec Corp of Santa Clara, CA, USA (whose Temescal division of Livermore, CA, USA makes electron-beam-based evaporative coating systems) says that a Temescal UEFC series evaporator - the ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that during March it received record volume purchase orders worth just over $3m (to be delivered over the next 12 months) for its indium antimonide (InSb) and gallium ...
Tags: IQE
Wolfspeed of Research Triangle Park, NC, USA – a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wide-bandgap semiconductor devices – says that its GaN-on-SiC RF power transistors have completed testing ...
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has announced its SiGe Terabit ...
Tags: TowerJazz RF CMOS SiGe
WIN Semiconductors Corp of Tao Yuan City, Taiwan – the largest pure-play provider of compound semiconductor wafer foundry services – has announced its entry into the high-data-rate optical device market by adding optical device ...
Tags: WIN Semiconductors, InP
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced its line-up of fiber-optic transceivers designed to drive the data-center transition from 40Gb/s to 100Gb/s and ...
Tags: Oclaro, Transition, OFC
Cadence Design Systems is offering complete IC packaging design and analysis solutions for advanced fan-out wafer-level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) and 2.5D interposer-based designs. Designed to accelerate the multi-chip integration for ...
Tags: Cadence Design system, IC, Packaging
X-FAB Silicon Foundries of Erfurt, Germany - a mixed-signal IC, sensor and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry – has entered wide-bandgap semiconductor production by announcing the availability of silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET SiC Schottky barrier diodes SiC power devices
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that Andrew Griffiths, process engineer at IQE's Photonics business unit based in Cardiff, was named Young Engineer of the Year at the ESTnet Awards 2016 at a gala ...
Tags: IQE, Andrew Griffiths, The ESTnet Awards, Gala ceremony
POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical devices on a single ...
Tags: POET, Initial Market
POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical devices on a single ...
Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA has completed its acquisition of EpiWorks Inc of Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA (which manufactures epitaxial wafers for optical components, wireless devices ...
Tags: EpiWorks, Engineered materials