Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
Tags: GaAsP solar cells, GaAsP, MBE, MOCVD
Zebra’s hands-free solutions are said to address need for faster picking as e-fulfilment booms. Zebra Technologies Corporation has responded to the industry’s need to increase operational visibility to ramp up efficiency and ...
Tags: Zebra, Total Wearable Solutions
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) says that in the last fiscal quarter it has delivered several hundred units of its gallium nitride (GaN)-based solid-state power ...
Tags: GaN-based SSPAs, HEMT, Advantech Wireless
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) has launched a new generation of gallium nitride (GaN)-based solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) with a number of improvements to ...
Tags: GaN-based SSPAs, Advantech Wireless, HEMT
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has developed a monolithic white light-emitting diode (LED) with blue light produced by electrical pumping, and green/'red' by optical pumping from the blue source [S. J. Kowsz et al, ...
For fiscal first-quarter 2017 (to 2 July 2016), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $697.6m, up ...
Researchers based in UK, France, Australia and the USA have developed a chemical epitaxial lift-off (ELO) technique for full 2-inch-diameter gallium nitride (GaN) grown on sapphire and free-standing substrates [Akhil Rajan et al, J. Phys. ...
Tags: GaN, HVPE, free-standing wafers
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that, for $76.5m, it has acquired the remaining 34% stake that it did not already own in the filter joint venture it created with ...
u-blox has expanded its product offering with automotive qualified product variants added to their range of positioning and cellular wireless connectivity modules. The additions comprise the NEO-M8Q-01A and NEO-M8L-01A, and respectively ...
Tags: U-Blox, Connectivity Modules
The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
Plextek RFI Ltd of Cambridge, UK, which designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, has announced a new reference design for a gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifier (PA) monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
Tags: MMICs, microwave, millimeter-wave modules
Airbus Defence and Space, which is reckoned to be the world's second largest space company (and a division of Airbus Group, Europe's top defence and space enterprise), has won its third contract in 18 months for its latest gallium nitride ...
Tags: GaN HEMT, SSPAs, Navigation Satellites
The Association of Global Automakers and the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA) have called upon Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to focus on safety first while changing the rules of 5.9 GHz Safety Spectrum band. ...
Tags: ITSA, public safety, lifesaving technology
Aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) buffer layers with high aluminium content are necessary for optimal UV-C LED performance. But their band-edge lies below 300nm, so established 405nm in-situ reflectance is insensitive to the surface ...
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added two new gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC BroadRange distributed amplifiers to its portfolio, for applications for including military/commercial ...
Tags: Custom MMIC, GaAs, monolithic microwave