A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
Tags: GaN p-n junction diodes, GaN Power Switches, solid-state lighting
After the RF Power business of NXP Semiconductors N.V. was acquired by China's Jianguang Asset Management Co Ltd (JAC Capital), the newly created firm Ampleon of Nijmegen, The Netherlands has extended its portfolio of gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Tags: Ampleon, GaN RF Power Transistor, broadband
University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, and University of Crete have been exploring the potential of Frster resonant energy transfer (FRET) from an indium gallium nitride (InGaN) single quantum well (SQW) to a light-emitting ...
Tags: InGaN, InGaN quantum well, FRET
The new Oslux SFH 4786S infrared LED (IRED) from Osram is around one-third thinner than its predecessor. (Osram Opto Semiconductors/LEDinside) The new Oslux SFH 4786S infrared LED (IRED) from Osram Opto Semiconductors enables iris ...
Tags: Osram, IRED, smartphones
Certain LED manufacturers have turned their attention to niche lighting market applications in the wake of declining LED profits, but MLS is ambitiously vying the IC semiconductor industry and emerging markets to boost its profitability in ...
Tags: MLS, IC Semiconductor, LED display
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that its new Oslux SFH 4786S infrared LED (IRED) enables iris recognition systems to be made less complex and with lower profiles. At 1.6mm high, the new IRED is about a third ...
Tags: Osram IR LED, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Electronics
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has completed its acquisition of Japan-based FiBest ...
Tags: M/A-COM, optical networking components, semiconductors
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that, as a more efficient successor to the P3W LED (with more output from a smaller package), its new Osram Ostar Projection Power LED light source enables users to equip even ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has unveiled new Quantum Colors conversion technology – developed in part in the SSL4EU and Hi-Q-LED projects funded by the European Union (EU) and the German Ministry of Education ...
Tags: Backlighting LEDs, Osram
Hybrid optoelectronic devices based on blends of hard and soft semiconductors can combine the properties of the two material types, opening the possibility for devices with novel functionality and properties, such as cheap and scalable ...
Tags: LEDs Performance, LED
For smart lighting solutions and colored lighting applications, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched Duris S 5 Color LEDs - available in four color versions: Red (620nm), Amber (610nm), Green (545nm) and Deep ...
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that a new Apex SLR ICP (inductively coupled plasma) etch system from its Advanced Vacuum division in Lomma, Sweden (which supplies vacuum solutions including ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd in the UK has been improving its indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-on-silicon light-emitting diode (LED) technology [Liyang Zhang et al, Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol3, p457, 2015]. A light output ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon LEDs, Plessey MOCVD
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, says that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TMSC, the ...
Tags: GaN Systems, E-mode GaN FETs, TSMC
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, says that, to support its accelerating ...
Tags: EPC, GaN, semiconductors