Bridgelux’s strategic partnership with one of China’s largest electronic company China Electronics Corporation (CEC) and its LED industry strategy has made CEC the ideal acquisitor among potential buyers, wrote Bridgelux CEO ...
Tags: Bridgelux, LED lighting, smart lighting
Materials manufacturer Indium Corp of Clinton, NY, USA (which supplies to the electronics, semiconductor, thin-film, thermal management and solar markets) says that its new EZ-Pour gallium trichloride (GaCl3) simplifies the use of gallium ...
Tags: Indium Corp, Gallium Trichloride, electronics, semiconductor
ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA, which manufactures wet-chemical processing equipment (especially for emerging markets and other cost-conscious users of ≤200mm substrates), has sold a Solstice S8 plating system to semiconductor ...
Tags: ClassOne, TRUMPF, Gold Plating
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has launched a highly integrated, low-power-dissipation, small-form-factor single- ...
Tags: semiconductor, wireless networks
After in June launching what it claimed was the lowest-resistance 650V-blocking-voltage transistor (specifying an Rdson as low as 15mOhm), VisIC Technologies Ltd of Rehovot, Israel, a fabless developer of devices based on gallium nitride ...
Tags: VisIC, transistor, semiconductor
In response to the shift in the lighting market toward semiconductor-based technologies creating new growth opportunities, lighting company Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany says that it is to invest about €3bn in new technologies and ...
Tags: Osram, Lighting, Opto Semiconductors
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has announced the appointment of Dr Wyn Meredith as director of the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC), the new joint venture between IQE plc and Cardiff University to be ...
Tags: IQE, Compound Semiconductor
One year ago, Seoul Semiconductor filed a patent infringement lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court asserting that Craig’s sales of LED backlighting unit products infringed five of Seoul’s patents. On July 23, 2015, the court ...
Tags: Seoul Semiconductor, LED chips, LED products
HexaTech Inc. announced today that it has received a continuation of funding under the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) development program. The cost-share extension is valued at $1.2 million over 1 ...
Tags: HexaTech, AlN, semiconductor
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq:VECO) announced today that it has shipped the 50th TurboDisc® EPIK™700 GaN Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System reactor since its introduction ten months ago. After its launch in ...
Tags: Veeco, MOCVD system, reactor
Seoul Semiconductor affiliate’s acquisition proposal of Sensor Electronic Technology (SETi) has been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense, according to a report by The Korea Times. "Seoul Viosys, an affiliate of Seoul ...
Tags: Seoul Semiconductor, UV LED chips, Viosys
ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON), driving energy efficiency innovations, has introduced an array of new AEC-Q100-compliantintegrated circuits (ICs) optimized for implementation into next generation automobile designs. The NBA3N200/1/6S ...
While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light. Researchers at Arizona State ...
Tags: ASU, White Lasers, LEDs
AIXTRON, a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced that Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei has ordered an AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead system (CCS) for pilot production of ...
Tags: AIXTRON, Asahi Kasei, UV LEDs
Rubicon Technology (Rubicon), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2015 and announced the signing of ...