In booth J2554 of its local agent APEC at the SEMICON Taiwan show in Taipei (5-7 September) and in booth 354 at European Microwave Week (EuMW 2018) in Madrid, Spain (23-28 September), EpiGaN nv of Hasselt, near Antwerp, Belgium - which ...
Tags: GaN Epiwafer, epitaxial wafer
Sanan Integrated Circuit Co Ltd (Sanan IC) of Xiamen City, Fujian province (China’s first 6-inch pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry) has announced its entry into the North American, European and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets ...
Tags: integrated passive device, filters
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA (which makes lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting and power semiconductors) has announced the pricing of $500m of its 0.875% convertible senior notes due 2023 in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers. ...
Tags: LED lighting, LEDs
ON Semiconductor of Phoenix, AZ, USA – which supplies power management, analog, sensors, logic, timing, connectivity, discrete, system-on-chip (SoC) and custom devices – has extended its silicon carbide (SiC) diode portfolio by ...
ROHM of Kyoto, Japan is to provide full-SiC (silicon carbide) power modules to the VENTURI Formula E team during season 4 (2017–2018) of FIA Formula E (the world’s first formula racing championship for all-electric vehicles), ...
Tags: Power Modules, silicon carbide
SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (an Orbotech company that manufactures etch, PVD and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets) has won an ...
Tags: SPTS, GaN-on-SiC, LED
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp (TDSC) - spun off from Toshiba Corp in July - has enhanced its diode portfolio with the addition of six Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) fabricated with silicon carbide (SiC) and housed in ...
Tags: Toshiba, Schottky Barrier, Package
After being showcased at the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington DC, USA (17-22 September), Tokyo-based Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (SEI) has launched the EpiEra high-quality ...
Tags: Sumitomo Electric, SiC Epiwafer
In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany recently shipped a comprehensive EpiCurve TT/Pyro 400 in-situ metrology hybrid system to an industrial customer in North America. The metrology station combines automated in-situ ...
Tags: MOCVD, GaN-on-SiC
Honda Foundation (a public-interest incorporated foundation created by Honda Motor Co Ltd’s founder Soichiro Honda and his younger brother Benjiro Honda) says that the Honda Prize 2017 will be awarded to Kyoto University professor ...
Tags: Power Devices
State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute says that associate professor of nanoengineering Dr Woongje Sung has been selected to receive $750,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop silicon ...
Tags: Power Electronics Chips, Suny Poly
At the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington DC (17-22 September), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp unveiled a silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect ...
Tags: Power Device, Mitsubishi, SiC Mosfet
Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to expand its facilities for producing high-quality-grade silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers for power devices - which have already been marketed under the trade name High-Grade Epi (HGE) - ...
Tags: SiC power devices, semiconductors
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin-film technology firm Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland has reported repeat sales of automated P-300BV vacuum batch production systems to major Asian discrete device manufacturers. Even if the 300mm wafer size ...
Tags: LED lighting, MEMS
The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $30m in funding for 21 projects as part of the CIRCUITS program (‘Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies ...
Tags: WBG devices, electronics devices