BASF is presenting numerous new solutions for the packaging and furniture industry, automotive and electrical engineering at this year’s Fakuma, the international trade fair for plastics processing, in Friedrichshafen. From October ...
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Since the beginning of 2015, the flame-retardant polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) Ultradur B4450 G5 (halogen-free) from BASF has been used in the mass production of the MiniSKiiP Dual power semiconductor modules from the company SEMIKRON. ...
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Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that is the market leader in power semiconductors for the twelfth consecutive time. Following the firm's acquisition of International Rectifier at the beginning of 2015, Infineon has a market ...
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Richard Eden, senior analyst (Power Semiconductors) at market research firm IHS Technology, attended the recent PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), and in a Research Note has ...
Tags: GaN SiC, Power electronics
After a successful 2013, the market for RF power semiconductors for wireless infrastructure blew off the chart in 2014, according to a new report from market analyst firm ABI Research. The Asia-Pacific region, and China specifically, ...
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK is participating in a £9.5m government initiative to modernize the UK energy infrastructure to cope with the unprecedented change in energy consumption, generation and distribution. UK ...
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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After two tough years of stagnation, in 2014 the power semiconductor device market returned to growth, rising by 8.4% to $11.5bn, according to the report 'Status of the Power Electronics Industry (February 2015 edition)' from Yole ...
ALLOS Semiconductors GmbH of Dresden, Germany, which was founded in June, says that it has acquired (via auction) the exclusive ownership of all technology, know-how and intellectual property of the former AZZURRO Semiconductors AG, which ...
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Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK and the Cambridge Centre for GaN (part of University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) have grown cubic GaN on 3C-SiC on silicon wafers by metal-organic chemical ...
Tags: green LEDs, silicon wafers, Electrical
Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor supplier GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA has announced availability of a gate driver evaluation board and has expanded its design support for its SiC junction transistor (SJT, claimed ...
Tags: SiC Junction Transistors, Driver Evaluation Board, Electrical
Electrical test instrument and system provider Keithley Instruments Inc of Cleveland, OH, USA has introduced new enhancements to its parametric curve tracer (PTC) configurations that incorporate high-power SourceMeter source measure unit ...
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The next-generation power semiconductor market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 63% between 2011 and 2017 to more than $500m, forecasts market research firm The Information Network in its report 'Next-Generation ...
Tags: Power Semiconductor, Electronics
Spending on microwave RF power semiconductors will rise to more than $300m by 2019 as the availability of new gallium nitride (GaN) devices for 4-18GHz becomes more pervasive, according to the report 'Microwave RF Power Semiconductors' from ...
Tags: ABI RF power semiconductors GaN, Electrical, Electronics
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, is to give application-focused ...
Tags: EPC, E-mode, GaN, FETs, Electrical, Electronics