RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched a new family of low-noise amplifiers (LNA) capable of high gain and broadband performance between 9kHz and 18GHz frequencies, which ...
Tags: LNA GaAs pHEMT, Electrical, Electronics
Demand for gallium is forecast to rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This strong growth is not, however, likely to result in any ...
Tags: Gallium Market, GaN-Based LED
Demand for gallium will rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes, but this strong growth is unlikely to result in any tightness in supply as the ...
Tags: Gallium, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has joined a new consortium to establish a pan-European supply chain capability for the high-volume production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA says that GIT Japan Inc - a provider of interface technologies between people and information, and a competence center for ultrawideband (UWB) chipset and module development - has selected ...
As high-data-rate applications put more strain on LTE wireless networks, solutions such as small-cell base-stations (BTS) and carrier aggregation will be needed to bridge the bandwidth gap in high traffic areas. In response to broader ...
Tags: GaN HEMTs, LTE wireless networks
Researchers based in USA and South Korea have developed a gate stack for III-V quantum well metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (QW MOSFETs) based on a bilayer dielectric of beryllium oxide (BeO) and hafnium dioxide (HfO2) ...
Tags: InGaAs MOSFETs QW MOSFETs InGaAs ALD, Electrical, Electronics
For first-quarter 2014, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $19.3m, up 3.8% on $18.6m last quarter although still down 13.8% on $22.4m a year ago. Fiscal Q1/2013 Q2/2013 Q3/2013 Q4/2013 Q1/2014 Revenue $22.4m $23.8m $20.5m ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched two high-power monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
Tags: M/A-COM X-band radar, Electrical, Electronics, Amplifiers
Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
For first-quarter 2014, Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has reported record ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched a new portfolio of L- and S-band high-gain amplifiers covering 1.2-1.4GHz and 3.1-3.5GHz specifically for commercial and military ...
Tags: power amplifier, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers in Taiwan have produced indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) with low interface trap densities directly on silicon [Yueh-Chin Lin etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p041202, 2014]. InGaAs ...
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has claimed a leadership position in point-to-point (PtP) wireless backhaul with ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, components
RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched ten new 1 Watt and 2 Watt broadband amplifiers suitable for defense, EW/ECM (electronic warfare/electronic counter-measures), radar, ...
Tags: power amplifier