Due to the major aggressive expansion plans of some Chinese LED companies, 220 gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactors will be installed in 2015, according to the latest data from the IHS LED ...
Tags: GaN MOCVD LEDs Epistar Sanan OptoElectronics, LED companies, Electronics
Due to the major aggressive expansion plans of some China-based LED companies, IHS forecasts that 220 gallium nitride (GaN) reactors will be installed in 2015. This new capacity expansion is slightly different from what happened several ...
Tags: GaN, MOCVD Companies, Lights
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has developed silicon substrate applications for integrating power drivers on single-chip devices, with volumes of such devices being 75% smaller than those of conventional models, and the company ...
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Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited (SFCE) announced that it has signed an MOU with Lattice Power to acquire a 51% ownership stake in the company. SFCE's successful bid in Lattice Power is a milestone for the listed company as it ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has added to its full-visible-spectrum LED product portfolio by launching a PAR20 lamp with ...
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Hong Kong-based Shunfeng International Clean Energy Ltd (SFCE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to acquire a 51% ownership stake in Lattice Power Corp of Nanchang, China, which claims to have been the first company to realise ...
Tags: silicon LEDs, LED lighting
Researchers at University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA have claimed record high breakdown voltage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) lateral Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on silicon [Mingda Zhu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
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Global LED lighting market value reached JPY1.7 trillion (US$48.7 billion) in 2014, accounting for 28.9% of total lighting value, and will increase to JPY5.5 trillion in 2020, with the corresponding market value proportion to rise to 58%, ...
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At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and provides gallium nitride-based power conversion ...
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At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has announced the expansion of its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon technology ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching transistors based on its proprietary Island Technology for power conversion and control applications, has announced new top-side ...
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Following the acquisition in December of the semiconductor & nanotechnology business of Oerlikon's Advanced Technologies Segment, Evatec Ltd of Flums, Switzerland (which makes thin-film deposition and etch processing equipment for ...
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To provide an easy-to-use way for power systems designers to evaluate the performance of gallium nitride transistors and get their products into volume production quickly, Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has appointed Ann Reo as senior VP of product development. Reo has more than 20 years of ...
Tags: Soraa, engine design, Electronics
SAGE SatCom of San Diego, CA, USA (part of telecoms solutions provider REMEC Broadband Wireless), which provides compact Ka-band block up-converter (BUC) and transceiver solutions, is now shipping its high-power 20 watt linear Ka-band BUC ...
Tags: GaN, M&C, Electronics