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
In booth 1655 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach, CA, USA (20–24 March), Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA is demonstrating its fast-switching silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices
South China University of Technology has shown improved power and efficiency performance for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with 1.2% indium-content multiple-quantum-well (MQW) barriers [Zhiting Lin et al, J. ...
Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
Energized by demand from hybrid and electric vehicles, power supplies and photovoltaic (PV) inverters, the emerging global market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors will rise from just $210m in 2015 to ...
Tags: Semiconductor Market, GaN, SiC
VerLASE Technologies LLC of Bridgewater, NJ, USA (a spin-off from technology development firm Versatilis LLC of Shelburne, VT, USA) says that the US Patent Office has issued US Patent No. 9,269,854, a fundamental patent covering the use of ...
Tags: 2D Nanocrystals microLED
At the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara (1-3 March), SoraaLaser of Goleta, CA, USA (which is commercializing visible laser light sources for display, automotive and specialty applications) is presenting its light source ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported full-year revenue for 2015 of €197.8m, up 2% on 2014's €193.8m. Contrary to expectations, San'an Optoelectronics Co Ltd (China's largest ...
Researchers in Canada claim the highest reported optical-to-electric power conversion of more than 65% (Figure 1) for a 150W/cm2 (~1500 suns) tuned narrow spectrum input from high-powered laser diodes [S. Fafard et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Korea University has been working to improve metal contacts on aluminium gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Dae-Hyun Kim et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol55, p032102, 2016]. In particular, the research team added ...
Tags: AlGalnP, Tantalum barrier, LED
Crystal IS Inc of Green Island, NY, USA, an Asahi Kasei company that makes proprietary ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVC LEDs), has augmented its Optan SMD (surface-mount device) product line for instrumentation with the addition of ...
Tags: Crystal IS, UVC LEDs
After unveiling its third generation of in-situ metrology tools last October, in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that the EpiTT Gen3 is now available as the first representative of this Gen3 product class. ...
Tags: UV LED epitaxy, sapphire
At the 13th Innovationsforum for Automation in Dresden, Germany (21-22 January), deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany received the 'Innovations Award for Automation, which is awarded annually by ...
Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
Tags: LED Light, LED lighting
The open-access paper The role of photonics in energy, authored by a team including Zakya Kafafi of Lehigh University, editor of the Journal of Photonics for Energy, traces the development of the science of light from the Arab scholar Ibn ...