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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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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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd says that Verbatim is to launch a new range of LED-based products that are built around Seoul Semiconductor’s patented nPola technology. nPola minimizes defects in the LED chip’s ...
Verbatim will launch a new range of LED products based on Seoul Semiconductor (SSC)’s ”nPola” technology. Since 2010, Verbatim has been introducing a growing portfolio of high performance LED lamps to the lighting ...
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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, ...
Swiss IGBT driver manufacturer CT-Concept is to open custom design centre in Ense, Germany. It will develop semi-custom gate-drive designs based on its driver cores, and produce full-custom drivers using the firm's Scale-2 chipset for ...
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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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Aegis Lightwave Inc of Woburn, MA, USA and Photop Technologies Inc of Fuzhou, China (both subsidiaries of II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA) have merged under the Photop brand identity. Founded in 2003 through a merger of four firms ...
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Researchers in Singapore claim the first DC and microwave performance measurements for 0.15μm-gate aluminium gallium nitride(AlGaN)on gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors(HEMTs)on silicon substrates with gold-free ...
Two years after breaking the 200 lumens-per-watt (LPW) R&D efficacy barrier, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) delivers another industry first with the introduction of the Cree XLamp® MK-R LEDs. The new MK-R LEDs leverage the SC³ ...
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