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 announced the availability and full technical support for 17 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has received an order for its railcar traction inverter with all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules (made with SiC transistors and SiC diodes), placed by Odakyu Electric Railway Co Ltd. This is the ...
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Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK has been awarded a grant by the UK's Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to evaluate the feasibility of using its unique stress relief technology to enable the production of low-cost, high-brightness ...
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 a gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) HEMT ...
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For fiscal third-quarter 2014 (to end-March), LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $405.3m, down 2.4% on $415.1m last quarter but up 16% on $348.9m a year ago. Fiscal Q3/2013 Q4/2013 ...
How much of Walmart's revenue comes from its shoppers' food stamps? The store isn't required to say. But a January Court of Appeals ruling could change that. If the unanimous decision by the Eighth Circuit's panel of three judges holds, the ...
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Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed conventional aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with record-breaking figures-of-merit (FOMs) for frequency and breakdown performance [Kumud ...
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Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA says that it has achieved another milestone for next-generation gallium nitride (GaN) radio-frequency (RF) semiconductor technology. Through the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Near ...
Tags: GaN-on-Diamond, GaN-on-SiC
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has signed a $9.7m agreement with the Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Directorate within the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to transfer and produce a 0.14μm gallium nitride ...
Tags: RF Micro Devices, GaN technology
Momentive Performance Materials Quartz Inc. (MPM) has increased and expanded its manufacturing capacity of tantalum carbide coatings (TaC) in response to the larger demand for silicon carbide power (SiC) devices and increased need for ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, Decoration
STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveilled a family of high-voltage silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFET products, enabling power supply designers to drive up energy efficiency in applications such as solar inverters and electric ...
Tags: Sic Power Mosfets, STMicroelectronics, high-voltage silicon carbide
Researchers in France have developed a technique to directly grow graphene on aluminium nitride (AlN) crystalline templates on silicon substrates [A. Michon et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, p071912, 2014]. Up to now, attempts to use ...
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"With this question my brother and I started an interesting conversation which ended in underneath proof of concept. The tldr [sic] answer is: "Yes, that is possible." Those lines are from the question-and-answer posed on a Tuesday blog ...
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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 added to its GaN in Plastic series with a wideband packaged ...
Tags: military radar, reliable high-voltage operation, CW modes
At last year’s IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) introduced the first - and only - ...
Tags: Transphorm GaN-on-Si, Electrical