UK-based aerospace, defense and security technology provider QinetiQ Group plc has acquired Redfern Integrated Optics Inc (RIO) of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2000 in Australia before moving to San Francisco, CA, USA in 2003, RIO is ...
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Philips, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Xicato, Qualcomm, the American Lighting Association and more will share their vision for the future of solid state lighting at?LEDs and the SSL Ecosystem 2014: Lighting in the Information Age. This 15th annual ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, solid state lighting, LED
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, says that Dr John Glaser has joined its ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
At the 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu, Hawaii (9-13 June), a team at Purdue University, SEMATECH of Albany, NY, USA (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials ...
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MicroSense LLC of Lowell, MA, USA, which supplies dimensional non-contact wafer metrology equipment for manufacturing silicon, compound semiconductor and power devices as well as magnetic metrology systems for MRAM (magnetoresistive ...
Tags: LED, LED Chip, LED component
At the PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Asia 2014 conference in Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, China (17-19 June), Michael de Rooij (executive director, Application Engineering) from Efficient Power ...
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Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA has entered into a letter of intent with Singapore-based Solar Silicon Resources Group Pte Ltd (SSRG) to acquire their assets and merge their business interests. Magnolia's subsidiary ...
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The first half of 2014 is drawing to a close but the wait continues for a strong economic upturn that would globally spark sustainable sales growth in the high-tech industry. So far, what many industry observers and economists can point ...
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QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa, Japan and the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics (NanoQuine) at the University of Tokyo have announced the development of wearable see-through display Laser Eyewear (LEW) based on laser retina ...
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At the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has reported what are claimed to be the highest-performing III-V metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs). The research ...
In the 'Global and China RF Industry Report, 2013-2014', market analayst firm Research In China notes that the biggest event in the RF industry in 2014 is RF Micro Devices' 'takeover' of Triquint Semiconductor. Triquint suffered ...
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Crystal IS Inc of Green Island, NY, USA, an Asahi Kasei company that makes proprietary ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVC LEDs) grown pseudomorphically (strained) on aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, has announced availability of its ...
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ABB of Zurich, Switzerland, which focuses on electric power engineering and industrial automation, has granted 5m Swiss Francs to the ETH Zurich Foundation to support the development of high-performance power semiconductors, with the aim of ...
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Ichor Systems Ltd, an OEM licensed supplier of re-manufactured equipment & services based in the Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride, UK, is to create new jobs and triple its capacity with a move to new 36,600ft2 premises at ...
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Spending on RF power semiconductors for the wireless infrastructure markets leapt up again in 2013 to more than $1bn, according to the latest study ‘RF Power Semiconductors’ from ABI Research’s High-Power Active Devices ...