Significant overcapacity and low LED substrate prices will affect the profitability and viability of many sapphire players in 2013 and beyond. So says a new market report 'Sapphire Substrates 2013' from analyst company Yole ...
Tags: sapphire substrates, low LED substrate, LED, LED makers
Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
Tags: Spacecraft Kepler, Essex, NASA, Astrium
11 Oct 2012 The high-reliability semiconductor and imaging component manufacturer is expanding in Asia,but restructuring in the UK. e2v Technologies,the UK company that makes a range of semiconductor components including high-end ...
Researchers based in the USA and France have created graphene nanoribbon structures with regions that have relatively large energy bandgaps of about 0.5eV [J. Hicks et al, Nature Physics, published online 18 November 2012]. Flat graphene ...
Tags: silicon carbide, graphene, nanoribbon structures, bandgaps, energy bands
Sofradir of Paris, France, which makes cooled infrared detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe) for military, space and commercial applications, has agreed to acquire the infrared (IR) detector technology development and ...
Tags: Sofradir, infrared detectors, IR detectors, Sagem, InSb, QWIP
Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
Tags: satellite, astronomer, Essex, Britain
The French government is supporting the creation of a number of collaborative research programmes in areas such as 3D semiconductor research,automotive electronic systems and nanotechnologies for smartphones. At the heart of many of these ...
Moncler continues its rapid programme of store openings and inaugurates the new single brand store in Turin.Following the recent opening of Budapest,the store network of the Maison rises to 83 freestanding boutiques. First capital city of ...
2 October 2012 Altatech introduces AltaCVD Solarlab for deposition of PV materials Altatech of Montbonnot Saint Martin,near Grenoble,France,a subsidiary of Soitec,has introduced a multi-chamber chemical vapor deposition(CVD)system that ...
Tags: Altatech, AltaCVD Solarlab system, PV materials, solar cell
STMicroelectronics entered a strategic agreement with MicroOLED, a Grenoble, France-based company specialised in the development and commercialization of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), as well as announced a minority equity ...
Tags: OLED
Soitec of Bernin,France says that its concentrator photovoltaic(CPV)technology is present in most of the eight projects in the sub-category'concentrator solar plants with installed capacity of less than 12MW'after the selection of ...
Tags: Soitec, CPV, French, 'Large Solar Power Plant'Projects
Floralis has launched a new service offering which can enable companies working in the field of food engineering optimize their manufacturing processes and improve product performance. The Rheonova technology platform has been developed ...
Tags: technology platform, manufacturing processes, product performance
ANR(the French National Research Agency)and CEA(the French Atomic and Renewable Energy Commission)have signed an agreement forming the Grenoble Institute of Technological Research(IRT):NanoElec Program. Centered on Grenoble,the IRT ...
Tags: NanoElec IRT, Grenoble, CEA-Leti, 3D IC integration
The French government is supporting the creation of a semiconductor research centre in Grenoble. The Grenoble-based Institute of Technological Research(IRT)will be the centre for the NanoElec Programme,a collaboration between ...
Tags: semiconductor, ST, CEA
III-V Lab(formed in 2004 as a privately held Paris-based joint venture between telecoms-focused Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France and defense&aerospace-focused Thales Research and Technology)has reported results of its activities for the ...
Tags: CEA-Leti, III-V Lab, Partnership