Oracle Networking Group in the USA believes that it has made the first demonstration of an integrated surface-normal coupled laser array on a silicon-on-insulator photonics platform [Shiyun Lin et al, Optics Express, vol24, p21455, 2016]. ...
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications) has rounded out its CATV product portfolio to include two new control ...
Tags: Qorvo, CATV, DOCSIS 3.1
In the afternoon of October, 17, as the last conducting wire passed through the No.1705 Tower pulley led by the main hauling cable and running board, completing the riveting line operation, the span of ±800kV Lingzhou-Shaoxing UHV DC ...
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Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) claims a record low subthreshold swing of 68mV/decade for a gallium arsenide (GaAs) field-effect transistor (FET) [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 24 ...
At the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE2016) in Milwaukie, WI, USA (18-22 September), VisIC Technologies Ltd of Nes Ziona, Israel - a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) ...
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VisIC Technologies Ltd of Nes Ziona, Israel, a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) founded in 2010, has launched a new ...
Tags: VisIC, MISHEMTs, new 650V GaN power switch
Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...
Tags: InGaN Laser diodes, cw, SINANO
The global radio frequency (RF) IC market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% from 2016 to 2020, forecasts a report by Technavio. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the main demand-generating region and ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – says that it has expanded its intellectual property (IP) portfolio to ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has announced a strategic partnership with automated test equipment ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched two RF switches suitable for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications including the connected home. In addition to the ...
Raytheon UK's Integrated Power Solutions (IPS) business unit in Glenrothes, Scotland, has developed a high-temperature, small-form-factor bridge leg power module. Aimed at high-speed switching applications, the module has potential uses in ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched what it claims is the fastest gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Tags: Peregrine, GaN FET Driver
With the re-grouping of teams from III-V Lab (the joint Alcatel-Lucent, Thales and CEA-Leti industrial research laboratory), Almae Technologies SAS is taking over III-V Lab's facilities at Marcoussis, which is sited on the Plateau de Saclay ...
Tags: CEA-Leti, III-V Lab, laser components
The pan-European REFERENCE research project - created to leverage disruptive radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) technology in developing industrial solutions for the performance, cost and integration needs of RF front-end modules ...
Tags: RF-SOI, ECSEL, 4G+communications