After giving a trading update for first-half 2013 in late July, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has confirmed record revenue of £63m (up 84% from £34.3m for first-half 2012). EBITDA (earnings ...
Tags: IQE, Electrical, electronics
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin ...
Tags: Fraunhofer ISE Leti Soitec CPV Helmholtz, Electrical, Electronics
Contract IC fabricator TowerJazz and power management IC vendor DMB Technology have announced an AC-LED driver IC while analog IC specialist Linear Technology has developed a DC LED driver with spread-spectrum frequency modulation that ...
Tags: LED Driver ICs, 110V Controller
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) is showcasing drivers, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, optical communications components
Light manufacturer posts LED component total revenue of over 1 billion euros in fiscal 2013 From the first surface-mountable LED (TOPLED) in 1990 to the awarding of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis (German Future Prize) by the German Federal ...
Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer, Epistar, recently showcased its latest Embedded LED Chip (ELC) technology. The new ELC product reduces lead frame and wire bonding, and only requires a chip, phosphor and glue, said Hsieh Ming-Hsun, VP, R&D, ...
Spending on microwave RF power semiconductors has been kick-started by the availability of new gallium nitride (GaN) devices for 4-18GHz, says market intelligence firm ABI Research in its new report 'Microwave RF Power Semiconductors' (part ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers in France have developed a monolithic metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) process for growing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with a multiple quantum well (MQW) light converter [Benjamin ...
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ROHM Semiconductor of Santa Clara, CA (the US arm of system LSI, discrete components and module product maker ROHM Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan) has launched two 80milliOhm 1200V silicon carbide MOSFETs, the SCT2080KE and SCH2080KE, designed to ...
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KULeuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of Tsukuba, Japan have developed a solid-phase epitaxy ...
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA says that its highly integrated, low-noise amplifier front-end modules are being used by various OEMs to enable global positioning systems (GPS) and global navigation ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that it is supplying the main antenna switch driving RF performance in ...
Tags: Samsung, Smartphone
At the 2013 Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Conference & Expo in Novi, MI, USA (17-19 September), GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless provider of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Hybrid Vehicles
The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Research and Development Center for Semiconductor Lighting has been exploring the effect of p-type doping of the barriers in multiple quantum well blue-green (~500nm) light-emitting diode (LED) ...
Tags: Blue-Green LEDs, Electronics
China's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that it will impose provisional anti-subsidy duties on some US exports of solar-grade polysilicon, a major material for making solar cells. The ministry said a preliminary investigation found ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Chemicals