Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has teamed up with research institution Fraunhofer IISB (Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology) in Erlangen, Germany, to develop 150mm silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxy ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has signed an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement with ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO) of Tokyo, Japan has begun operations with an AIX 2800G4 HT Planetary Reactor system. The 11x4”-wafer configuration metal-organic ...
Tags: Mitsubishi, GaN-on-Si, power amplifiers
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, says that, on 3 September (at 11am-12pm ...
Google and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) have launched the Little Box Challenge, an open competition with a $1m prize to create a much smaller but higher-power-density ...
Tags: inverters, GaN SiC, Power Inverter
Agnitron Technology Inc of Eden Prairie, MN, USA is scheduled to ship its latest 1500°C+ reactor upgrade for the Veeco metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) D-series Legacy System platform. The single 2”- or ...
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SoloPower Systems of Portland, OR, USA, which designs, manufactures and deploys copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) flexible thin-film solar technology, is collaborating with the US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) - an ...
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Aerovox Corp. has developed a patent-pending technology that increases the stability of polypropylene film capacitors in high temperature applications. The company’s new UltraTherm(TM) technology improves dielectricThe insulating ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, is showcasing its latest devices in booth 13 at the 16th European ...
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Wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) are best positioned to address emerging power electronics performance needs in electric vehicles (EVs), with SiC displacing silicon as early ...
Tags: Power electronics GaN SiC, Electric Vehicle, Electrical, Electronics
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Vishay Semiconductor GmbH of Heilbronn, Germany has acquired a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system (delivered at the end of March) to expand its infrared ...
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The silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 42% from 2014 to $3182.89m in 2020, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets (‘Silicon carbide (SiC) in semiconductor ...
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Under the leadership of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the multi-national R&D project MANGA (Manufacturable GaN-SiC-substrates and GaN epitaxial wafers supply chain) says that it has succeeded in implementing a supply chain for the ...
Tags: GaN Technologies, HEMT structures, electronics components
Directed by Infineon Technologies AG together with partners Aixtron, SiCrystal AG and SMA Solar Technology AG, the three-year German project NeuLand (begun in late 2010) has developed highly integrated components and electronic circuits ...
Based on a scenario where electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles (EV/HEV) begin adopting gallium nitride (GaN) in 2018-2019, the ramp-up of the GaN power device market will be quite impressive starting in 2016, at an estimated ...
Tags: Yole GaN HEMT Power electronics, Electrical, Electronics