GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched a new family of 802.11ac power amplifiers (PAs) optimized for WiFi infrastructure and multimedia applications, including ...
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Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, TX, USA, which provides RF power technology for cellular markets, has launched a gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) control circuit specifically designed to optimize the ...
A transnational team of researchers has reported the first electrically pumped exciton-polariton laser device using an arsenide semiconductor microcavity [Christian Schneider et al, Nature, vol. 497, p348, 2013]. The team was variously ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has announced 15 new gallium nitride (GaN) amplifiers and transistors along with two new GaN processes – to be displayed in ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its AWL9281 and AWL9581 WiFi front-end integrated circuits (FEICs) have been selected for use with the industry’s ...
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Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, TX, USA, which provides RF power technology for cellular markets, has introduced an enhancement-mode pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistor (pHEMT) low-noise amplifier (LNA) based on GaAs process ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched three broadband solderable flip-chip devices, namely a ...
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For first-quarter 2013, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported revenue of $26.4m, down 7.2% on $28.4m a year ago and 13.4% on $30.5m last quarter. The firm had ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its AWL9581 802.11ac front-end IC (FEIC), AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA), AWT6624 HELP4 PA, and AWC6323 HELP3E ...
Researchers based in China and Sweden have proposed fast chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene as a route to more cost-effective transparent conducting layers (TCLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Xu Kun et ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has launched gallium nitride (GaN)-based high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) epitaxial wafers on 150mm-diameter semi-insulating silicon carbide (SiC) substrates ...
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has launched RF switching technology that aims to enable early adopters to implement carrier aggregation solutions. Carrier aggregation allows mobile service providers ...
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For first-quarter 2013, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $22.4m, down 5% on $23.5m a year ago but up 18% on $18.9m last quarter. Fiscal Q1/2012 Q2/2012 Q3/2012 Q4/2012 Q1/2013 Revenue $23.5m $25.2m $20.8m $18.9m $22.4m ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that a leading US wireless compound semiconductor device manufacturer has placed follow-on orders for Plasma-Therm VERSALINE wafer processing, etch modules. The ...
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The University of Salford is to conduct theoretical work on third-generation solar cells, which aim to use to semiconductor nanostructures to significantly increase the electricity produced by sunlight – from about 10% efficiency to ...
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