UK-based Plessey Semiconductors is to lead a £1.3m UK government-funded project in conjunction with Aixtron Ltd (the UK subsidiary of deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany) and Bruker Nano ...
Tags: Semiconductors, deposition equipment, LEDs
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has established a joint venture with Cardiff University to lead the development and commercialization of compound semiconductor technologies in Europe. IQE says that ...
Tags: electics, IQE, semiconductor
Using infrared light-emitting diodes (IREDs) from Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany as the light source, Fujitsu Ltd's ARROWS NX F-04G (marketed by telecoms firm NTT DOCOMO Inc, currently only in Japan) is said to be the ...
Tags: Osram IR LED, LED light, electric components, LED lamp, LED panel
At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of NXP Semiconductors N.V. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands and a special general meeting of shareholders of Freescale Semiconductor Ltd of Austin, TX, USA, NXP's proposed acquisition of ...
Tags: NXP Freescale
What is decribed as the first European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) to be sent into space has completed its second year of operations. Hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) on its Earth-observing Proba-V mini-satellite in ...
With funding of about €3.9m from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 12 partners in the German automotive sector, its supply industry and the sciences (led by Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany) are ...
China has begun to implement its investment plans aiming to boost development of the local semiconductor industry, and will inject a total of CNY600 billion (US$19.4 billion) into the industry over the next five years, according to industry ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched a new generation of its compact high-power Duris S 8 LED with significant efficacy improvement of up to 17%, achieved by introducing a new leadframe material and chip ...
Tags: Osram LEDs, LEDs
Richard Eden, senior analyst (Power Semiconductors) at market research firm IHS Technology, attended the recent PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), and in a Research Note has ...
Tags: GaN SiC, Power electronics
The infrared (IR) LED market for surveillance applications will grow from $94m in 2014 to $120m in 2015, according to '2Q15 Gold Member Report - 2015 Global LED Supply and Demand Market' from LEDinside (a division of TrendForce). ...
KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has used corrugated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (CELOG) to create heterojunctions consisting of n-type indium phosphide (n-InP) and p-type silicon (p-Si) [Y. T. Sun et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Tags: corrugated epitaxial, silicon
In booth 4D18 at PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Asia 2015 in Shanghai (24–26 June), GaN Systems Inc in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Power electronics, Transistor
NXP Semiconductors N.V. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands has agreed to sell its RF Power business for $1.8bn to Jianguang Asset Management Co Ltd (JAC Capital, a subsidiary of China state-owned investment company JIC Capital). NXP's RF Power ...
Tags: RF Power Business, JAC
After a successful 2013, the market for RF power semiconductors for wireless infrastructure blew off the chart in 2014, according to a new report from market analyst firm ABI Research. The Asia-Pacific region, and China specifically, ...
GaN Systems Inc in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications – is claiming that its GS66504B – one of a family ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Power electronics, GaN SiC