Fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a-chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA has launched what is claimed to be an industry-first 100G-CWDM system-on-chip fully integrated optoelectronic S-roC receiver IC ...
Tags: silicon photonics, receiver, transmitter
Following the acquisition in December of the semiconductor & nanotechnology business of Oerlikon's Advanced Technologies Segment, Evatec Ltd of Flums, Switzerland (which makes thin-film deposition and etch processing equipment for ...
Tags: Evatec, PVD, Electronics
Zhejiang University in China and University of Cambridge in the UK have jointly developed ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) based on metal-semiconductor Schottky junctions between silver nanowires (AgNWs) and gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Global demand for fine-pitch LED display panels grew on year by 70% in 2014 and is estimated to hike at a CAGR of 110% during 2014-2018, but prices are expected to drop in 2015 due to possible oversupply arising from an increase in ...
Tags: LED Display, LED
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, says that at the end of December it received an order for an MBE412 system (for delivery in 2015) from ...
Tags: Electronics Equipment Maker, MBE412 system, Electrical
Taiwan topped global rankings last year for LED component output value, and the industry is expected to keep up 14% growth throughout 2015 to reach US $5.37 billion, according to statistics compiled by Taiwan’s Photonics Industry and ...
Tags: LED Component, LED Chip
Epistar has invested NT$825 million (US$25.94 million) to merge with TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL), helping to enhance Epistar's capability in the lighting industry. Before the decision was made, many companies such as SemiLEDs and ...
Tags: LED Market, LED technologies, Lights
The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
Tags: LED Lighting, diode applications, Electrical
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has received a new purchase order for indium phosphide (InP) materials worth $3.25m from a leading global substrate manufacturer. Produced by IQE’s Wafer Technology ...
Tags: Wafer Technology, Electrical
Following its Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) call issued in February, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £20m to 10 new research projects that aim to advance the ...
Tags: Functional Materials, Electronics
Evatec Ltd of Flums, Switzerland, which makes thin-film deposition and etch processing equipment for semiconductor, MEMS, optical and optoelectronic applications, has agreed to acquire the Advanced Technologies Segment of Oerlikon of ...
Tags: deposition systems, packaging, Electrical
The Optical Society (OSA) and the IEEE Photonics Society have named Paul Daniel Dapkus, the W. M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), as recipient of the 2015 John Tyndall Award for ...
Tags: metal-organic chemical, Electrical
Taiwan LED maker Advanced Optoelectronic Technology (AOT) has reported its revenues during the third quarter of 2014 reached NT$1.79 billion (US$57.28 million), up 5.86% on quarter, with a gross profit margin of 12.43%, down 7.54pp on ...
Tags: LED maker, handset backlighting, Lights
North Carolina State University (NCSU) has been developing homo-epitaxy of non-polar aluminium nitride (AlN) with a view to deep ultraviolet (DUV, less than 300nm wavelength) optoelectronics [Isaac Bryan et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol116, ...
Tags: aluminium nitride, UV LED
Samsung Electronics will reportedly withdraw from the global LED lighting market due to low-price pressure from China-based makers, while Taiwan-based TSMC Solid State Lighting will reportedly cease operations, according to industry ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Samsung, Lighting