Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor supplier GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA has announced the immediate availability of a new family of industry-standard surface-mount SMB (JEDEC DO-214AA)-packaged SiC Schottky ...
Driven mainly by heat spreaders for high-power device thermal management, the diamond materials market for semiconductor devices will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% to more than $43m in 2020, according to the base ...
Tags: Semiconductors, Diamond Materials
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN-on-GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, is to open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Buffalo, NY. In partnership with the ...
Tags: GaN-on-GaN, LED, Electrical, Electronics
In what he describes as "the mother of all conspiracy theories," an Arizona-based talk radio host says the powers that be are intentionally destroying large bodies of water in a bid to create a multi-trillion-dollar biofuel industry. ...
Tags: algae, conspiracy, ocean, oil
It is one of the latest forms of "greenwashing" that has many thinking they are "recycling" solid waste, but the practice of dumping biosolids (which is really just concentrated human waste) on farm fields is a serious environmental ...
Tags: local, farms, waste, fertilizer
Graphene on silicon carbide (SiC) has been shown to give an accurate resistance standard and to outperform the presently used gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices in many aspects. Now, researchers at the Centre for Metrology and Accreditation of ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor supplier GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA has announced the immediate availability of 8000V SiC PiN rectifiers; 8000V SiC Schottky rectifiers, 3300V SiC Schottky rectifiers and 6500V SiC ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The company also announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire material. GT will own and operate ASF® furnaces and related equipment to produce the material at an Apple facility in ...
Tags: Apple, Sapphire Materials
In either a cautious or a more aggressive scenario, LED applications will be the key drivers for the bulk gallium nitride (GaN) market, reckons market research firm Yole Développement in its report 'Free-Standing & Bulk GaN ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that Shinry Technologies Co Ltd of Shenzhen, China, which focuses on energy-efficient applications in transportation and lighting, has employed its 1200V C2M family of silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs in its ...
Tags: Cree SiC MOSFET, Electrical, Electronics
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK has secured £1m in funding to help it speed the development and commercialization of its silicon carbide (SiC)-on-silicon technology for power devices. The benefit of SiC-based devices is ...
Tags: SiC power converters SiC-on-silicon driver ICs, Electrical, Electronics
With analysts predicting significant growth in the silicon carbide (SiC) power device market, in order to meet an anticipated spike in demand Japan’s Toshiba is expanding its family of 650V SiC Schottky barrier diodes (SBD). The ...
Tags: Toshiba, SiC Schottky
LayTec is proud to announce that Epistar Corp. has qualified LayTec’s in-situ metrology Pyro 400 for its GaN LED production. The LED manufacturer based in Taiwan will not use high accuracy GaN surface temperature sensing with Pyro ...
Tags: GaN LED Production, Lighting
Markets for pulsed RF power devices up to 18GHz are expected to show continued solid growth over the next five years - exceeding $250m by 2018 - despite the current economic turmoil and cuts in defense spending, according to the study ...
Tags: ABI RF power semiconductors GaN, Electrical, Electronics
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, says that Epistar Corp (Taiwan's largest LED chipmaker) has qualified the Pyro 400 ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor, photovoltaic applications