DayStar Technologies Inc (DSTI) of Kelowna, BC, Canada, which was founded in California in 1998 to make copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, says that it is negotiating the potential sale of its CIGS solar ...
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has announced the next generation of its high external quantum efficiency ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN, LED, USA
Researchers in China have developed an atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique to create distributed Bragg reflectors (DBR) for increasing nitride semiconductor light-emitting diode (LED) output power by up to 43% [Hongjun Chen et al, Appl. ...
Tags: DBR ALD MOCVD LEDs GaN, Lighting, LED
University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA and epiwafer maker IQE have claimed record-breaking balanced frequency performance for a nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) using indium aluminium gallium nitride ...
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has received an award from the US Department of Energy for its work in the ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN, Electronics, Lighting
Flisom AG of Duebendorf, Zurich, which was spun off from the Laboratory of Solid State Physics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 2005 to develop technologies for industrial roll-to-roll manufacturing of ...
Tags: Empa Flexible CIGS, Flisom, company news
Dublin-based fab-less chip company Ikon Semiconductor has jumped into the competitive LED light bulb market with its first product: a dimmable single-stage ac-dc converter. Like iWatt's new chip for non-dimmable bulbs (see page??), Ikon ...
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Germany-based Azzurro Semiconductor AG has turned out sample 8-inch Ga-on-Si (gallium on silicon substrates) LED epitaxial wafers and plans to begin volume production as soon as the end of the second quarter of 2013, according to company ...
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What will be the trend of the distribution market in 2013? The lines between engineering and purchasing will continue to blur, validating the importance of a next generation distribution model. This next generation approach is less ...
Photovoltaic inverter design is now seen as the crucial element in solar power development, writes James Turner, and he discusses some of the challenges that can shape PV inverter design. Over the last few years the photovoltaic (PV) ...
Cadence Design Systems has agreed to acquire Cosmic Circuits Private, a developer of analogue and mixed signal intellectual property (IP) cores for the 40nm and 28nm semiconductor process nodes. Bangalore-based Cosmic Circuits is also ...
Tags: Cadence Design Systems, Cosmic Circuits Private, semiconductor process
ARM’s close collaboration with the foundries on next generation processes is paying off. Globalfoundries says that an ARM chip made on its 14nm finfet policy delivers twice the power efficiency of its ‘super low power’ ...
Tags: ARM, ARM chip, dual Cortex ARM A9 cores
"HomePlug AV is used in set-top boxes in Europe and is starting in the US," Greenvity CEO Hung Nguyen. "Any lighting system needs to be interoperable with set-top boxes. HomePlug Green PHY co-exists and inter-operates with HomePlug AV." ...
Tags: HomePlug AV, set-top boxes, US
Xylem Inc., has introduced its Bell & Gossett series e-90 in-line centrifugal pump, specifically designed for the commercial HVAC market. The company made the announcement at the 2013 AHR Expo in Dallas. Featuring a high hydraulic ...
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U.S. 8,178,160 B2 PPG Industries has been granted a patent for a method for preparing a decorative and durable coating having a homogeneous hue comprised of dry-blend mixing a first powder coating composition having a first hue and a ...
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