Researchers in Europe have developed a low-temperature plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE) process for direct growth of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) on silicon (Si) substrates [Pavel Aseev et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, ...
LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics is not considering a merger with Taiwan-based Edison Opto in order to expand LED packaging capacity, according to Everlight chairman Robert Yeh. News recently spread in the market ...
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At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and provides gallium nitride-based power conversion ...
Tags: APEC 2015, GaN Power Devices
QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa Japan and the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics (NanoQuine) at the University of Tokyo have unveiled the prototype of their retina imaging laser eyewear for low-vision care. The plan is to ...
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Japanese producer of apparel zippers, YKK has developed an Eco-Dye technology at its Kurobe facility in Japan facility by using super critical fluid dyeing (SFD) technology. According to YKK, this technology enables it to reduce the ...
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Transphorm Inc, Transphorm Japan Inc, and Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd have announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor group's CMOS-compatible, 150mm wafer fab in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, has started mass production of gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Tags: GaN Power Devices, Electrical
SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of plasma etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment systems to compound semiconductors device makers, has announced metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) demonstration ...
Tags: metal-organic chemical, GaN-550 MOCVD system, Electrical
Epistar has invested NT$825 million (US$25.94 million) to merge with TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL), helping to enhance Epistar's capability in the lighting industry. Before the decision was made, many companies such as SemiLEDs and ...
Tags: LED Market, LED technologies, Lights
Apple’s range of Mac computing products could soon be powered by processors designed in Cupertino, according to a new report on Wednesday. According to the analysts at KGI Research (via 9to5Mac) the company wants to upscale the ...
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With China- and Taiwan-based suppliers eager to expand their presence, prices of fingerprint sensors are likely to fall below US$5 in 2015, according to industry sources. Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, FocalTech Systems, Egis ...
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Affected by the factors such as the slowdown in macro-economic growth, the decelerated growth of fixed-assets investment, and rapid capacity expansion of downstream sectors in the early stage, China’s machine tool industry has showed ...
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Following its Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) call issued in February, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £20m to 10 new research projects that aim to advance the ...
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For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
Tags: LED Makers, Entry Level, Electrical
The much-mooted 12-inch MacBook Air with Retina display has been tipped for a 2015 launch. The device currently only exists as hushed whispers at One Infinite Loop, but is set to begin mass-production in Q1 next year. This week’s ...
Samsung has successfully built new DRAM that can be packaged as a 4GB module for mobile devices. The new 8-gigabit LPDDR4 mobile DRAM is built using Samsung’s 20nm manufacturing process, and trumps the previous 4-gigabit DDR3 RAM ...
Tags: Samsung, Smartphones