RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA,is showcasing twelve new products at European Microwave Week in Amsterdam next week(29-31 October).These include new packaged ...
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro,NC,USA has been awarded a$2.1m contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)to enhance the thermal efficiency of gallium nitride(GaN)circuits used in high-power radar and other ...
Tags: RFMD, GaN technology, DAPPA, NJTT, military system
Cree, Inc. announces its latest silicon carbide (SiC) offering with low basal plane dislocation (LBPD) 100-mm 4H SiC epitaxial wafers. This LBPD material exhibits a total BPD density of < 1 cm-2 in the epitaxial drift layer, with BPDs ...
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Cree continues to lead the SiC materials marketplace in driving to larger diameters and this latest advancement lowers device cost and enables adoption for customers with existing 150-mm diameter device processing lines. 150-mm epitaxial ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced the availability of high-quality, low-micropipe 150mm 4H n-type silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers, with highly uniform epitaxial layers as thick as 100 microns available for immediate purchase ...
Tags: SiC wafer
GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks)die for high-capacity wireless point-to-point ...
EpiGaN starts 8-inch GaN-on-Si development on Aixtron reactors Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that new customer EpiGaN of Hasselt, Belgium, a start-up manufacturer of III-nitride epitaxial material, ...
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AIXTRON SE announced that EpiGaN, a new customer and a start-up manufacturer of III-Nitrides epitaxial material in Hasselt, Belgium, has successfully commissioned two new MOCVD systems, able to operate either in multiple 6” or in ...
Tags: MOCVD, GaN-on-Si Wafer
AWR Corp of El Segundo,CA,USA,a supplier of electronic design automation(EDA)software for designing RF and high-frequency components and systems,has expanded its AWR Design Forum(ADF)2012 Asia Pacific tour to include two stops in ...
Tags: AWR, EDA, ADF, design forum
The Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor device market is expected to reach $12.6m by the end of 2012, and the phenomenal growth rate of 60-80% year-on-year is expected to continue in subsequent years, according to the report ‘Gallium ...
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Silicon Valley-based Gaas Labs LLC,a private investment fund targeting the communications semiconductor market,has acquired privately held Nitronex Corp of Durham,NC,USA,which designs and makes gallium nitride(GaN)-based RF power ...
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Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has released a new suite of Verilog-A proprietary nonlinear device models for its gallium nitride(GaN)RF devices(available free to Cree's RF customers),developed for use with leading RF design platforms from ...
Tags: Cree, GaN, RF devices, Verilog-A RF device models, IMS
At the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada(17-22 June),Germany's Infineon Technologies AG has launched the BFx840xESD series of SiGe:C(silicon-germanium:carbon)heterojunction bipolar ...
Tags: Infineon, transistors, WiFi
Recognized as a compelling alternative to silicon for many RF applications,gallium nitride(GaN)technology has generated significant industry interest due to its performance advantages,but has faced significant challenges related to ...
Tags: NXP, RF applications, mainstream GaN
At the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada(17–22 June),Freescale Semiconductor of Austin,TX,USA,which provides RF power technology for cellular markets,has launched new Airfast transistors ...