NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan has used hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layers to release nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from sapphire and transfer them to commercially available adhesive tape [Toshiki Makimoto ...
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Researchers in Taiwan and USA have developed lateral insulated-gate bipolar junction transistors (IGBTs) using 4H silicon carbide (SiC) technology [Kuan-Wei Chu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 9 January 2013]. ...
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Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), announced revenue of $346.3 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2013, ended December 30, 2012. This represents a 14% increase compared to revenue of $304.1 million reported for the second quarter of fiscal ...
Linköping University spin-off Graphensic AB of Mjärdevi Science Park, Linköping, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency has granted it about €60,000 in financial support for business development. The firm reckons ...
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Microsemi has introduced silicon carbide (SiC) standard power modules with industrial temperature grade. Designed for use in high power switch mode power supplies, motor drives, uninterruptible power supplies, solar inverters and oil ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has launched a new generation of industrial-temperature silicon carbide (SiC) standard power modules, ...
GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua,NH,USA(a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar,LED and other specialty markets)says that it is ...
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Researchers at University of Notre Dame and Kopin Corp have developed high-performance nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with indium gallium nitride (InGaN) channels [Ronghua Wang et al, Appl. Phys. Express, ...
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Digi-Key has added two new product lines to its global distribution websites. The new lines are GeneSiC Semiconductor, the supplier of silicon-carbide devices and capacitive touch screen specialist Precision Design Associates (PDA). ...
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Global Internet-based electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp of Thief River Falls, MN, USA has agreed to distribute worldwide the silicon carbide (SiC) technologies of GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA, which develops ...
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The number of countries where a controversial movie trailer on YouTube has been blocked increased to five by Monday, as Google ran into legal threats in some of these countries. Malaysia is the latest country in which Google has blocked ...
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"Apple Maps is the worst-received new product to come out of Cupertino since the 1993 launch of the Newton...the child of a nasty divorce between two of the world's most powerful companies." " -- Forbes magazine Those two companies are ...
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Light output power increased 23% over conventional lateral LEDs. Korea's universities have used aluminum-alloyed graphite as a thermally conducting substrate to improve the light output power performance of nitride semiconductor LEDs by ...
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LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole ...
A hacker today claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals who are seeking Wall Street jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job ...
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