ACCO Semiconductor Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a fabless provider of RF front-end components manufactured using standard high-volume bulk CMOS processes for smart-phone and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, has closed a $35m funding ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that its G5+ C multi-wafer batch metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) platform has been qualified for the manufacturing of specific buffer layers as ...
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held fabless ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the XLamp XP-G3 LED, which delivers 31% more lumens and 8% higher lumens-per-watt (LPW) than the XP-G2 LED. Leveraging key elements of Cree's SC5 Technology Platform, the high-power XP-G3 LED ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has improved the luminous efficacy of its high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by as much as 7.5% by reducing the unwanted effect of efficiency droop at high currents. This ...
Tags: Osram LED, Blue High-Power LEDs
Following greatly increased use in the optical communications industry over the past 15 years, the global market for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) will grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.9% from ...
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Researchers in France claim the first demonstration of 10GHz large-signal microwave power performance for flexible aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [S. Mhedhbi et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
DENSO International America Inc of Southfield, MI, USA (a subsidiary of Japan-based automotive technology, system and component supplier DENSO Corp) has invested in TriLumina Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufactures and integrates ...
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has announced its SiGe Terabit ...
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The US Department of Defense's Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Devices for Sensing Branch (AFRL/RYDD) has issued a Request For Information (RFI) titled 'Development of Large Diameter Silicon Carbide Substrate and ...
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, has made available the EPC9066, EPC9067 ...
Market sectors encompassing telecommunications, consumer electronics, innovative energy applications in transportation, electricity generation and other market sectors are increasingly valuing power semiconductor devices as usage of these ...
Tags: AC driver, railway applications, high power
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has launched 1310nm and 1550nm high-power ...
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Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – has launched the Medallion 7110 series of ...
Advantech Wireless Inc of Montreal, Canada (which manufactures satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems) has launched the 2500-G Series 50W Ku-band gallium nitride (GaN)-based airborne-grade solid-state power block/block up-converter ...
Tags: GaN HEMT, Advantech Wireless