Lasers and infrared LEDs for self-driving cars More than ten years ago, Osram Opto Semiconductors supplied infrared laser diodes for the first laser sensors in cars. As one of the first suppliers of powerful infrared LEDs (IREDs), Osram ...
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The new SFH 7060 sensor from Osram Opto Semiconductors is designed to measure pulse rates and the oxygen saturation level of blood. It offers excellent signal quality and low energy consumption. The main applications for this component ...
Tags: Osram, LED Optical Sensor, Smartwatch
For full-year fiscal 2015 (ending 2 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported record revenue of $3.26bn, up 42% on fiscal 2014's $2.29bn. For the fiscal ...
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Solvay Specialty Polymers, a world leader in the research, development and manufacturing of high-performance materials designed to master the most challenging requirements in the semiconductor industry, will showcase at Semicon Taiwan 2015 ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has launched its Half-Bridge Evaluation Board, which demonstrates ...
Tags: GaN Transistor Circuit, power switching semiconductors
It's hard to escape the positive vibe that is currently circulating within the optics industry. As well as publishing record results in quarter one, many of the industry's big hitters have also published encouraging growth forecasts for ...
Tags: optics industry, cosmetic medical systems, semiconductor tools
With feed-in tariffs (FiTs) in the key markets of Germany and Italy about to be reduced, and financial problems spreading around the Mediterranean, there has been speculation of an accompanying decline in demand for solar cells used to ...
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Pocket projector; mini projector; pico-projector; nano-projector. The muddle of names that has sprung up around these miniature display products succeeds at least in dragging our thoughts away from the projectors that we are more familiar ...
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In a dramatic change from the status quo, nearly half of all gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs will be produced on silicon substrates by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new report by analysts at IHS, who forecast that the ...
Tags: LED Production, GaN LEDs, sapphire wafers
Pricing pressures and a varied international outlook are still facts of life for industrial laser vendors, but overall demand remained in line with expectations during the first quarter of 2014. The regular survey of vendors carried ...
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The European machine vision (MV) industry is in “an excellent condition”, according to the German VDMA’s latest market survey. published earlier in July. It states that the MV sector’s turnover grew more strongly ...
Tags: Machine Vision, strong growth, software
The global market for laser materials processing systems reached a volume of US$ 11.6 billion in 2014. According to a preliminary analysis of 2014 data produced by Optech Consulting, based in Taegerwilen, Switzerland, that figure is up 8% ...
Tags: laser systems, fiber lasers, semiconductors
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has announced availability of its complete chipset for CWDM ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has received the 2015 National Export Award (PNE) from Mexico. The PNE is one of four national awards given by Mexico's federal ...
Tags: Skyworks, Mexico's National Export Award, integrated circuit modules
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched the Soleriq L 38, the first filament LED in the Soleriq product family. With a long and thin shape (a length of 30mm and a diameter of 1.8mm), the LEDs provide the basis ...
Tags: Osram, Filament LEDs, lighting