The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA have jointly demonstrated that Alta's solar material retains its high efficiency in real-world conditions, particularly on hot ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, automotive industry
Soraa has recently released the first GaN on GaN LED in a 50W halogen equivalent MR16 lamp with several new features.This LED has a gallium nitride substrate, triangular shaped chip, simplified epitaxial structure and an original ...
Gallium-nitride-on-silicon architecture inches closer to sapphire-based LED performance levels but a significant gap remains. Plessey Semiconductors has announced the PLB010350 LED that it is manufactured on its gallium-nitride-on-silicon ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
Plasma etch, deposition and thermal wafer processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (a Bridgepoint portfolio company) has acquired XACTIX Inc of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, which is claimed to be the market-leading ...
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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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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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United Silicon Carbide Inc (USCi) of Monmouth Junction, NJ, USA has selected the TCAD simulators of Silvaco Inc of Santa Clara, CA, a provider of technology computer-aided design (TCAD), circuit simulation and electronic design automation ...
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New advancements in LED technology have allowed for it once more to step up its game. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute?recently announced that they have successfully created "the first ...
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Widespread geographical diversification of PV installations will quadruple supply in five years, says Lux Research. EPIA's global solar forecast (click to enlarge) With high-profile bankruptcies, shrinking subsidies and a ...
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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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TurboDisc MaxBright® MHP™ GaN MOCVD Multi-Reactor System Veeco MOCVDs are crucial to LED chip production. The quality, efficiency, and yield of epitaxial wafers may affect the cost and output of the LED epitaxial wafer plant. ...
Tags: LED MOCVD, LED Equipments
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,22 commodities increased in prices, 32 fell and 46 remained unchanged on 01/07/2013.The largest rises were Silver (5.94%),Acrylic acid (1.66%),Iron ore (1.50%),while 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 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in LED manufacturing. The latest manufacturing, materials and production developments will be showcased at SEMICON West 2013, which ...