A desiccant is a material that removes moisture from the air and is a hygroscopic substance that induces or sustains a state of dryness in its local vicinity in a moderately well-sealed container. This material for specialized purposes may ...
The XLamp XH LED family is cost optimized for applications such as linear SSL and offers longer life at elevated temperatures relative to plastic packages. Cree has introduced the XLamp XH-G and XH-B mid-power LEDs that are packaged on a ...
An Australian-UK consortium is offering a epitaxial silicon carbide buffer layer for 300mm silicon wafers, claiming it will improve gallium nitride growth for GaN-on-Si LED fabrication. The buffer is the result of over 10 years research ...
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,13 commodities increased in prices, 31 fell and 56 remained unchanged on 30/05/2013.The largest rises were Palm Oil (1.33%),Soybean meal (0.93%),DAP (0.55%),while the ...
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Nitronex LLC of Durham, NC, USA, which designs and makes gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si)-based RF power transistors for the defense, communications, cable TV and industrial & scientific markets, has fully qualified its NPT1015 ...
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The UK Government’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has announced a £2m boost for research into the development of gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors by Netherlands-based electronics firm NXP ...
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The Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Facility (QMF) of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and its industry partner, plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK, have ...
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China Steel Corp (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan announced that its cold rolling and coil-coating project in Vietnam will start to produce in the third quarter of 2013. This plant which owns annual capacity of 1.2 ...
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Synthetic diamond materials firm Luxembourg-registered Element Six (part of the De Beers Family of Companies, and co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Group4 Labs Inc of Menlo ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that, in his invited talk at the LED Technology Forum in Singapore (7-10 ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has ranked number 1 in the 10 BEST of VLSIresearch’s 2013 Customer Satisfaction Survey. The distinction is given to the top-voted focused supplier of chip ...
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US employee benefits-only agency Digital Insurance has purchased Fallick Insurance Services of Mountain View, California, with an aim to enhance employee benefits client services. The acquired enterprise will join the Los Altos/Silicon ...
Starting in late 2011, the power electronics downturn in 2012 was quite severe, exhibiting a 20% drop. The market suffered from the global economic downturn, combined with external factors such as China controlling what happened in some ...
If you didn't notice AGC Group when it opened its new digs in the Silicon Valley last week, you can perhaps be forgiven. After all, a four-person office operating out of one of the few buildings in Cupertino without an Apple sign on it is ...
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Stapp brings more than a dozen years of executive experience in LED lighting technologies to Aledia, most recently in senior management positions at OSRAM, a global leader in SSL manufacturing and marketing. As general manager and senior ...