Fairchild Semiconductor of San Jose CA, USA, which makes silicon chips for power and mobile designs, has announced silicon carbide (SiC) suitable for power conversion systems. The firm notes that, in an effort to achieve higher power ...
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Provider of semiconductor diagnostic, characterization and defect localization solutions, DCG Systems Inc of Fremont, CA, USA says that a major Japanese power device manufacturer has purchased a DCG ELITE (Enhanced Lock-In Thermal Emission) ...
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In hall A5, booth 343 at electronica 2012 in Munich, Germany (13–16 November), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA is announcing the commercially availability of what it claims is the industry’s first fully qualified, production-ready ...
Tags: power module, silicon carbide, high-frequency module, power converters
Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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There are many different areas of application for the NeoMag pump from DST Dauermagnet-SystemTechnik GmbH. As a result of ATEX certification, the centrifugal pump with the Borohardcan silicon glass separating can has now also become the ...
Mitsubishi Electric has developed a prototype electric vehicle (EV) motor system with an incorporated silicon carbide inverter. The company claims that the EV motor system is the smallest of its kind, measuring half the dimensions of the ...
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs and customizable SoCs, and subsystems) has expanded its family of radio-frequency transistors based on gallium ...
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The assets were purchased from Twin Creeks’ lenders in a private sale for approximately $10 million and royalties that will be based on future sales. GT expects that Twin Creeks’ unique Hyperion™ ion implanter ...
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SemiSouth Laboratories Inc of Starkville, MS, USA, which designs and manufactures silicon carbide (SiC) devices for high-power, high-efficiency, harsh-environment power management and conversion applications, is to close down, according to ...
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In conjunction with the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) in Orlando, FL (26-29 November), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has announced what it claims is ...
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Oclaro of San Jose,CA,USA,which makes lasers and optical components,modules and subsystems for the optical communications,industrial and consumer laser markets,has agreed to sell the assets of its Santa Rosa thin-film filter business to ...
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Denmark’s LiqTech International Inc has entered into an exclusive close cooperation agreement with engineering and construction company Constructora Conconcreto South America in Colombia and Venezuela following a successful 12-month ...
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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 family of 1200V Schottky diodes based on silicon carbide (SiC) material and technology. ...
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This quarter, Plessey Semiconductors plans to sample its GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. Samples are due out in December with production sales beginning in March for both LED die and packaged devices. It is the culmination of a decade of ...
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It is 50 years since laser scientist Dr Nick Holonyak and his team of researchers at General Electric made the breakthrough with a new type of alloy that allowed them to create the first practical, visible-spectrum LED and paved the way for ...
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