Worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 2.2 percent year over year to $295 billion in 2012, according to the latest version of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Semiconductor Application Forecaster (SAF). The industry witnessed ...
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Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN) a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical markets, today announced that it has relaunched its website to reflect the company's focus on market ...
LED chip and lighting array maker Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA has closed an agreement with Tokyo-based semiconductor manufacturer Toshiba Corp (announced on 22 April), which aims to strengthen and extend their strategic technology ...
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Singapore, a beautiful garden city, is famous for its cleanness. Spark LED high bay light, based on LED technology, is energy saving, environmental friendly and durable. The installation of Spark LED high bay light in this beautiful city ...
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Researchers in Korea have used three-dimensional (3D) graphene foam as a transparent conductor for the p-contact of blue nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Byung-Jae Kim et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol102, p161902, 2013]. The ...
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Researchers based in China and Sweden have proposed fast chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene as a route to more cost-effective transparent conducting layers (TCLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Xu Kun et ...
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has announced a program authorizing the repurchase of up to $75m of the firm’s common stock. Under the program, stock ...
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XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, has appointed Dr John R. Tuttle to ...
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to improve by advancing chip and manufacturing technologies. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich ...
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Independent package design and assembly company Sencio launched nCapsulate freeform packaging technology, which adds an extra dimension to sensor and MEMS encapsulation. As nCapsulate offers freedom of shape when encapsulating ...
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Grenoble-based CEA-Leti (the French government’s Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology) reckons that Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture volume silicon photonics devices because of the success of the ...
As Intel mulls a plan to expand its contract-manufacturing operations, the company has lost ground as the world's top semiconductor company to chip suppliers benefitting from the success of mobile devices, according to a study by IC ...
Adaptive forward lighting, in other words glare-free camera-controlled headlamps that react instantly, will be helping drivers even more in the future thanks to additional intelligent functions. The key to this complex functionality is the ...
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Breakthrough Innovation Provides Rapid Payback of Less than a Year While Outperforming Traditional Lighting DURHAM, NC -- Building upon the success of the CR Series downlights, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) introduces Cree® Full Definition ...
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Dual-colour lasers could pave way for more energy efficient LED lighting Researchers in the US have come up with a new semiconductor device that is capable of emitting two distinct colours and could potentially open up the possibility of ...
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