Metrology and inspection equipment maker Lasertec Corp of Tokyo, Japan has launched the GALOIS defect inspection and review system series, designed specifically for the inspection and analysis of gallium nitride (GaN) wafers. The firm is ...
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Temperature measurement during metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of GaN-on-silicon (GaN/Si) devices is challenging, notes in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany. Theoretically, conventional infrared ...
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The global gallium nitride (GaN) power device market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.5% from 2016 to $2.6bn in 2022, according to the report 'GaN Power Devices Market - Global Forecast to 2022' from ...
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Electronic hardware and software design solutions provider Mentor Graphics Corp of Wilsonville, OR, USA says that Xiamen San'an Integrated Circuit Co Ltd (San'an IC) of Xiamen Torch High-tech Industrial Development Zone, China has selected ...
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When people think about wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials for power electronics applications, they usually think of gallium nitride (GaN) or silicon carbide (SiC) – which is not surprising, since SiC and GaN are currently the ...
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT of Aachen, Germany has worked with RWTH Aachen University’s Institute of Physics (IA) to develop an analysis technology that, for the first time it is claimed, allows the structural ...
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Following the announcement on June 30 that Epistar is acquiring Formosa Epitaxy (FOREPI), Epistar will have over 400 MOCVD reactors including those from FOREPI's China subsidiaries, more than double the GaN MOCVD of its nearest competitor, ...
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has signed a $9.7m agreement with the Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Directorate within the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to transfer and produce a 0.14μm gallium nitride ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has introduced what it claims are the world's first 6-inch gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) wafers for manufacturing RF power transistors for both military and commercial use. The ...
Researchers in Japan have been developing planarization techniques for gallium nitride (GaN) surfaces [Shun Sadakuni et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol52, p036504, 2013]. The researchers from Osaka University, Ritsumeikan University and Ebara ...
Two semiconductor materials companies, France-based Soitec and Japan’s Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., have signed a licensing and technology-transfer agreement under which Sumitomo Electric will use Soitec’s proprietary ...
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Nichia Corporation is a Japanese chemical engineering and manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokushima, Japan with global subsidiaries, that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of phosphors, including light-emitting ...
NGK Insulators, Ltd. has announced it has developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that double luminous efficiency of a LED light source compared to conventional materials. With the assistance of a research institute outside the Company, a ...
In this week's update:Are GaN-on-GaN LEDs closer to reality than previously thought?Update on our latest Webcast;DOE updates its SSL manufacturing roadmap;and OLEDs still trail LEDs in cost,but Plextronics hopes to change that. Back at ...
Soitec and Silian enter joint development agreement on GaN template wafers Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga ...
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