Sunnyvale,CA–Osram Opto Semiconductors'new Oslon Signal LED currently provides the world's brightest blue light.Made using a special thin-film chip technology,the Oslon Signal emits powerful bright blue light providing significantly ...
A glut of manufacturing capacity and near-collapse in rare earth metal prices is driving down the cost and hence encouraging the rapid take-up of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. LED lights are based on semiconductors and therefore do ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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IBM has invented a chip that combines photonics and silicon on a single 90 nanometer(nm)die,which is capable of transferring data at 25Gbps. The so-called silicon nanophotonics device(shown below)allows the integration of different ...
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Optical networking and associated semiconductor technology company JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported its first-quarter 2013 (ended 29 September 2012). Non-GAAP net revenue was $420.9m and net income was $35.0m ($0.15 per share). ...
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Best Buy's Insignia LEDs cost less than half what similar bulbs cost two years ago, and smartphone-controlled bulbs are becoming available. At first blush, expensive LED light bulbs zre an unlikely technology to succeed with consumers. ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has seen its third-quarter 2012 equipment orders pick up by 15% sequentially to €34.5m. The company says that current Q4/2012 quotation levels suggest a continuation of ...
Taipei, Oct. 25, 2012 (CENS)--Market research firm Gartner predicts Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to likely take over all of Apple's processor contracts from Samsung by 2014. During a recently held forum on semiconductor ...
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AIXTRON SE announced that more than 200 participants,mostly manufacturing customers,attended its MOCVD seminar for LED production held at the AIXTRON China Ltd.Training Center&Lab in Suzhou,China. The seminar was co-organized by the China ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany says that over two hundred participants,mostly manufacturing customers,attended its MOCVD seminar for LED production held today(September 14)at the Aixtron China Ltd Training ...
Dongguan Tianyu Semiconductor Technology Co Ltd,which claims to be the first manufacturer of silicon carbide(SiC)epitaxial wafers in China,has started to expand its SiC epiwafer business globally after the completion of three contracts in ...
All American extends distribution agreement with GeneSiC Electronic component distributor All American Semiconductor has signed extended its distribution agreement with GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles,VA,USA,which develops silicon ...
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Certification service provider, Integrated Service Technology (IST), has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Hong Kong-based testing service firm Intertek to combine resources such as the US Energy Star ...
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The EU research project GECCO with their partners from Madrid, Bristol, Lodz, as well as Osram aim at vertically oriented LEDs that can boost the light output by a factor of 10. The European scientists expect that new three-dimensional ...
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Skyworks launches analog solutions for automotive toll tag systems Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors)has introduced analog solutions for low-noise receivers ...
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