Liberty Mutual Insurance has awarded two Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company plants with safety awards. Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company, the largest manufacturer of refrigerated trailers, saw its Paragould Arkansas and Clearfield, ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton, OR, USA, which provides equipment enabling precision contact, electrical measurement and test of wafers, ICs, IC packages, circuit boards and modules as well as MEMS, 3D TSV and LED devices, has acquired ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has introduced new MicroDieSingulator (MDS) systems. The systems deliver plasma-based singulation of semiconductor dies from 4-inch, 6-inch, and 8-inch wafers mounted ...
Tags: Plasma-Therm, MDS Systems
Researchers in Taiwan have used nanopyramid nitride semiconductor structures to explore long-wavelength green, olivine and amber light-emitting diode (LED) structures [Shih-Pang Chang, Optics Express, Vol. 21, p23030, 2013]. The team was ...
Tags: Nitride LEDs, Electronics
Prince George, BC: The BC Forest Safety Council (BCFSC) has launched a new health and wellness program focused on increasing the physical activity levels and overall health of log truck drivers in British Columbia. The Healthy Hauler ...
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Due to the slow growth in the GaAs device market and increasing use of multi-band GaAs power amplifiers in cellular applications, total demand for semi-insulating (SI) GaAs epitaxial substrates (from manufacturers such as IQE, VPEC, Kopin, ...
Tags: EPI Production, Electronics
A strong close to 2012 allowed the gallium arsenide device market to grow by about 2% to record revenue of slightly more than $5.3bn for the year, due mainly to the cellular segment, as most other segments for GaAs devices were flat or ...
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TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has announced the release of new gallium nitride (GaN) transistors that offer what is claimed to be superior gain, thermal management and efficiency for commercial and defense RF amplifier ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK’s University of Nottingham has purchased two GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems for its School of Physics and ...
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Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University has developed near-green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using a new indium gallium nitride (InGaN) growth process that gives devices with a higher peak external quantum efficiency of 48.6% ...
Tags: LEDs, Near-green LEDs, InGaN MOCVD
Showa Denko (SDK) is launching silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers with a diameter of 6 inches (150mm) - the largest size currently available, it is claimed - for use in power devices. The firm is also selling a new grade of 4-inch ...
Tags: Epiwafers, Inverter Power Devices
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the University of Oklahoma will receive the first shipment of Veeco’s new GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system early in ...
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA is partnering with Asia-based original device manufacturer (ODM) Wistron NeWeb Corp (WNC), which supplies connected home solutions for a number of branded original ...
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PVA TePla of Wettenberg, Germany has launched the baSiC-T physical vapor transport (PVT) crystal growth system (which uses sublimation of a source powder at high temperatures) for the mass production of silicon carbide (SiC) material. ...
Tags: PVT System, Modular
Diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany has launched a fiber-coupled, multi-bar diode laser module capable of delivering up to 6kW output at a wavelength mix of 9xxnm through a 1000μm, 0.22NA fiber. The micro-channel-cooled unit ...