While conventional LED materials enabled the start-up and initial development of the industry, higher performing products such as silicones can help solid-state lighting meet more challenging performance requirements for fast-growing ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA is introducing what it says is the first commercially available silicon carbide (SiC) six-pack power module in an industry standard 45mm package. Picture: Cree’s SiC six-pack power module. When ...
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Grenoble-based CEA-Leti (the French government’s Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology) reckons that Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture volume silicon photonics devices because of the success of the ...
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,25 commodities increased in prices, 22 fell and 53 remained unchanged on 13/05/2013.The largest rises were Hydrochloric acid (4.23%),Natural rubber (1.47%),Soda ash ...
According to the European solar manufacturers' initiative EU ProSun, Chinese dumping has already cost thousands of jobs in Europe. Only in the production of solar modules some 15,000 jobs have been lost since 2011, as well as thousands of ...
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Dual-colour lasers could pave way for more energy efficient LED lighting Researchers in the US have come up with a new semiconductor device that is capable of emitting two distinct colours and could potentially open up the possibility of ...
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For first-quarter 2013, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has introduced a new SPDT RF switch for harsh environment and space applications. ...
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Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) says that Fumihide ‘Humi’ Esaka will join the firm as its new CEO, starting 1 July. Transphorm reckons that ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,24 commodities increased in prices, 23 fell and 53 remained unchanged on 10/05/2013.The largest rises were Dried cocoons (3.33%),Urea (0.89%),Cotton yarn (0.81%),while the ...
Sono-Tek Corporation was founded in 1975 by Dr. Harvey L. Berger, Ph.D. (Inventor of the ultrasonic nozzle) The first ultrasonic nozzles were developed for use in oil burners and subsequently for the development of liquid fuel burners ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has launched gallium nitride (GaN)-based high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) epitaxial wafers on 150mm-diameter semi-insulating silicon carbide (SiC) substrates ...
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp says that it has begun shipping three new types of silicon carbide (SiC) power module for home appliances, industrial equipment and railcar traction systems. The modules, which use Schottky barrier ...
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Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has launched RF switching technology that aims to enable early adopters to implement carrier aggregation solutions. Carrier aggregation allows mobile service providers ...
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Garage door repair is not exactly a routine thing. However, once in a while you may have to look into it, because one fine day you do not want your garage door to collapse, right? It may happen that during this you might need the help of a ...
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