In booth 1127 at OFC/NFOEC 2013 in Anaheim, CA, USA (19-21 March), OneChip Photonics Inc of Ottawa, Canada, which designs optical chips and transceivers based on monolithic photonic integrated circuits (PICs) fabricated in indium phosphide ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has released its second generation SiC MOSFET. According to the firm, the new 1200V MOSFETs deliver leading power density and switching efficiency at half the cost per amp of Cree’s previous generation ...
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Nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has announced the launch of its fully integrated silicon photonics platform through a cost-sharing multi-project wafer (MPW) service via ePIXfab, the EU-funded silicon photonics ...
Tags: silicon photonics, Nanoelectronics, optical transceivers
National Formosa University in Taiwan has developed a liquid-phase deposition (LPD) process of textured zinc oxide on III-V semiconductor to provide improved absorption of multi-junction solar cells [Po-Hsun Lei et al, J. Phys. D: Appl. ...
Tags: ZnO, germanium solar cells, solar cells
As sapphire substrate makers brace for a year of consolidation, 2013 could deliver the killer application, reports Compound Semiconductor. Will 2013 be a year of two halves for manufacturers of sapphire substrates? Overcapacity and falling ...
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CPA Global, an intellectual property (IP) management and software specialist, has opened a new office in Silicon Valley, to help meet the massive demand for IP management services in the region and to enable the company to better serve its ...
Tags: software, Consumer Electronics
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,9 commodities increased in prices, 31 fell and 60 remained unchanged on 15/03/2013.The largest rises were Nickel (1.05%),Chloroform (0.74%),Toluene (0.62%),while the ...
In booth 1136 at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) at the Anaheim Convention Center, California (17–21 March), micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti ...
A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (ended 27 January), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, has reported revenue of $238.4m, a drop of almost 5% on fiscal Q3/2012's $243m a year ago but ...
Tags: Finisar, Electrical, Electronics, fiber-optic communications component
At the SEMICON China show in Shanghai next week (19-21 March), Shanghai-based dielectric and through-silicon via (TSV) etch tool supplier Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc (AMEC) is making its solid-state lighting (SSL) market debut ...
Tags: MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics
Is it time for high-brightness LED manufacturing to get serious about process control? If so, what lessons can be learned from traditional, silicon-based integrated circuit manufacturing? The answer to the first question can be ...
Tags: LED manufacturing, LED substrate, MOCVD
Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
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Soraa announced yesterday the next generation of its high external quantum efficiency GaN on GaN LEDs. As described in Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 223509, Soraa’s new LED outperforms the best-documented LED laboratory result by Nichia ...
Tags: Soraa, LED outperforms, GaN LEDs, LED laboratory
Asahi Glass and nMode Solutions of Arizona have formed a semiconductor packaging company called Triton Micro Technologies to develop via-fill technology using ultra-thin glass to make interposers for 2.5D and 3D semiconductors. "The ...
Tags: Asahi Glass, nMode Solutions of Arizona, semiconductor packaging