The sluggish growth of the mono-Si market this year is notable given the fact that many cell manufacturers had switched from multi-Si to mono-Si production in the second half of 2014. Statistical research conducted by EnergyTrend for the ...
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Sandia National Laboratories in the USA has reported aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) laser structures emitting ~350nm ultraviolet radiation from optical and electrical pumping [Mary H. Crawford et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol8, p112702, ...
Tags: AlGaN, ultraviolet lasers, LEDs
Solvay Specialty Polymers, a world leader in the research, development and manufacturing of high-performance materials designed to master the most challenging requirements in the semiconductor industry, will showcase at Semicon Taiwan 2015 ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has acquired a High Density Radical Flux plasma technology that enables low-temperature Bosch polymer removal. High Density Radical Flux (HDRF) was developed by ...
Tags: Plasma-Therm, plasma technology, HDRF
US-based cider maker Angry Orchard has introduced a new glass christened the Orchard Glass, designed for hard cider. Cider is a beverage that caters to unique taste that lies somewhere between wine and beer. The cider makers wanted to ...
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From the exterior plastic smartphone case, wearable device wrist bands, semiconductors IC packaging, specialty material for crucial optoelectronic components to aeronautics and military applications, there are several large chemical ...
The average monthly price of sapphire has fallen by more than 30% year on year this September, according to the latest 2015 Global Sapphire and LED Chip Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. This decline is the result of ...
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets, has expanded its range of laser diode and avalanche photodiode ...
Tags: optical chips, subsystems
Researchers based in China and Canada have developed single-mode ridge waveguide Fabry-Perot (RW FP) laser diodes using a pair of etched trenches that are slanted to reflect out unwanted wavelengths [Xun Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
Tags: laser diodes, packages
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed an n-type gallium nitride (n-GaN) tunnel junction (TJ) intracavity contact to reduce threshold current and increase differential efficiency in its m-plane III-nitride ...
Tags: VCSEL, n-GaN, GaN substrates, MOCVD, MBE
Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has been studying ways to improve the performance of p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) in terms of hole density and contact resistance with nickel/gold [Bo-Sheng Zheng et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol118, ...
Tags: nickel caps, Diodes, Electronics
Osaka University in Japan has developed a plasma pre-treatment for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) on gallium nitride (GaN) that avoids creating enlarged etch pits [Hui Deng et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p051602, 2015]. Surface ...
Researchers in the USA have developed vertical Schottky and pn gallium nitride (GaN) diodes on silicon with performance comparable to devices grown on much more expensive substrates [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, ...
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and University of California Santa Barbara in the USA have developed a wafer bonding technology for III-V materials and silicon (Si) using transparent conductive oxide (TCO) interlayers of ...
Tags: electronic components, semiconductor, TCO IZO Tandem solar cells
Researchers in China and Hong Kong have claimed the highest output power density and power-added efficiency reported to date for gallium nitride (GaN)-based enhancement-mode metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors ...
Tags: GaN MIS-HEMTs, PECVD ALD MOCVD