Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched two new Wi-Fi switches suitable for WLAN networks, repeaters, ISM-band radios, Bluetooth systems, smartphones, and ...
Tags: Skyworks, Wi-Fi switches, SPDT
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has announced a strategic partnership with automated test equipment ...
Pasternack Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes both passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) has launched a line of high-rel frequency dividers that cover wide frequency bandwidths from 0.5 to 18GHz and are available ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has used limited-area epitaxy (LAE) on semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) substrates to reduce misfit dislocation (MD) densities in multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) says that it has completed the exchanges for all $65m of its 6% convertible senior notes due 2020. Between 8 and 18 August, ...
Tags: Oclaro, revenue, convertible debt
Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
Tags: GaAsP solar cells, GaAsP, MBE, MOCVD
America’s back, free trade agreements are helping (particularly with China), and Europe remains on Australian business horizons despite Brexit. This is according to the 2016 DHL Export Barometer. However, exporters are muddling ...
BEIJING – Athletes and spectators aren’t seeing trash pile up at the venues where they are competing and cheering. Comlurb, Rio’s sanitation company, is using trucks equipped with Allison transmissions to efficiently ...
LED lighting technology firm Flip Chip Opto Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has launched its Ares Series UV-A spectrum flip chip COB (chip-on-board) LED module as part of the firm's standard product line up. The Ares Series is based on patented ...
Tags: Flip Chip Opto Inc, Ares Series UV-A, DBR
For full-year fiscal 2016 (ended 26 June), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $1.62bn, down slightly on $1.63bn for fiscal 2015, as growth in commercial lighting and stable LED revenue was offset by lower consumer lighting ...
Tags: Cree Inc, revenue report, LED products
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical transport networking systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that its portfolio of dense ...
For first-half 2016, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €55.5m, down 31% on first-half 2015's €80.7m, reflecting the ongoing weak demand environment in the firm's ...
Tags: Aixtron SE, MOCVD, GaN
Privately held integrated optical communications component and sub-system developer ColorChip of Yokneam, Israel has raised $20m in new growth funding to ramp-up operations and drive an accelerated product roadmap. The funding is in ...
Tags: Optical transceivers, ColorChip, PICs
Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA has given the US Army a look into the future of missile defense technology, as the firm provided its comprehensive vision for the next generation of air and missile defense radar. The information was ...
Tags: Raytheon, LTAMDS, Missile Defense Sensor
Stion Energy Services (SES) - the turn-key project development arm of Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes CIGS (copper indium gallium selenium) photovoltaic modules – says that a 722kW solar array using frameless modules ...