Japan's Sharp Corp has used a concentrator triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor photovoltaic cell to achieve a solar energy conversion efficiency of 44.4%, exceeding the record of 43.5% for concentrating conversion efficiency set in ...
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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) has announced two funding opportunities relating to solid-state lighting. Both opportunities seek proposals for “transformational advances in ...
Tags: Solid-state lighting, LEDs, ARPA-E
Dialog Semiconductor Plc (FWB: DLG), a provider of highly integrated power management, audio and short-range wireless technologies, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire iWatt Inc. ("iWatt"), a leading ...
OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA – says it has achieved Milestone 6 ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has completed its rights ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA says that RF-Lambda of San Diego, CA, USA, which makes and distributes RF components for analog wireless networks in North America, ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in second-quarter 2013 it delivered a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactor (ordered in fourth-quarter 2012) to the ...
The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST), a program of the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently released a new publication to aid owners and facility managers of ...
Test, measurement and monitoring equipment supplier Tektronix of Beaverton, OR, USA says that its next generation of high-performance real-time oscilloscopes will incorporate IBM's latest 9HP silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip-making process. ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA reflected on its role in helping land NASA's Curiosity rover safely on Mars as program managers say the mission is reaching a key ...
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TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world's biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), says TUV SUD has confirmed that its latest commercial-sized (1.09m2) CIGS (copper ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd says that samples of 350mW GaN-on-Si LEDs are now available. The entry-level lighting products are manufactured on Plessey’s 6-inch MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN I/C) line at its Plymouth, England facility. The ...
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Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in MEMs and LED manufacturing, and breakthroughs in silicon photonics and printed/flexible electronics. But what comes next? The ...
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Mott has introduced two ultra high purity gas filters to its all 316LSS Defender Filter product line. Mott adds that as more semiconductor manufacturing companies have moved to 300 mm and now 450 mm platforms, the gas volumes required for ...
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Diodes Incorporated is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets. Yesterday, it announced a miniature DC/DC converter ...