Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK and the Cambridge Centre for GaN (part of University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) have grown cubic GaN on 3C-SiC on silicon wafers by metal-organic chemical ...
Tags: green LEDs, silicon wafers, Electrical
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has introduced a new Ostar Stage LED for stage lighting that, compared with previous members of the product family, offers more than twice the lumen output but with a component surface ...
Tags: LED Boosts, stage lighting, Electrical
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has signed an agreement for Japanese company Daito Electron Co Ltd ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Daito Electron, Electrical
NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan has used a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layer to release and transfer gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) from sapphire substrate to thermally conducting copper, ...
Tags: Boron Nitride, GaN Transistors
STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveiled new automotive-qualified silicon carbide (SiC) diodes for on-board battery chargers (OBCs) in electric vehicles such as plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) that demand high power-handing capability ...
Tags: on-Board Battery Chargers, 650V SiC Diodes, Electrical
Continuing strength in China and a resurgent US economy are combining to drive accelerated growth in the worldwide market for semiconductors used in industrial applications in 2014, according to IHS. Global market revenues for industrial ...
Tags: industrial semiconductors, Global market revenues, Lights
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany and Corning Inc announce a co-marketing agreement to promote Corning Fibrance Light-Diffusing Fiber, a first-of-its-kind technology that embeds lighting into products using Osram laser ...
Tags: Osram, Blue laser, optical fiber
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, is exhibiting at the Electronica 2014 trade fair in Munich, Germany ...
Tags: GaN Systems, semiconductors
At the Electronica 2014 trade fair in Munich, Germany (11-14 November), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has unveiled the P 13 as the latest addition to its Soleriq P series of LEDs. The Soleriq P 13 has a brightness ...
Tags: Osram LEDs, High-Flux LED
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2014 (to 3 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $718.2m, up 22% on $587m last quarter and 51% on $477m a year ...
Tags: Skyworks, semiconductors
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 27 September 2014), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $89.2m (at the high end of the $83-91m ...
Funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, the Hi-Q-LED project has made advances with green LEDs, diminishing the ‘green ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched the surface-mountable Displix Oval, which is claimed to be the first LED with oval light-radiating characteristics for large-screen video walls, gas station price signs and ...
Tags: Mountable LED, Osram
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that the headlights on the new Mercedes Benz CLS class of cars are equipped with its Oslon Compact high-power LEDs, which can be arranged very close together in the headlight with a ...
Tags: Compact LEDs, Mercedes Benz
Professor Venkat Selvamanickam at the University of Houston has received a $1,499,994 grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative to produce high-efficiency, inexpensive thin-film photovoltaics. The SunShot Initiative ...
Tags: Thin-Film PV, Metal Foil