SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of plasma etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment systems to compound semiconductors device makers, has launched an atomic layer deposition (ALD) system focusing on gate oxide ...
Researchers in Germany are proposing scandium nitride (ScN) as a suitable buffer for gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon (Si) growth [L. Lupina et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p201907, 2015]. The attraction of ScN is a very small mismatch ...
Tags: GaN devices, microscope
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
Lasers and infrared LEDs for self-driving cars More than ten years ago, Osram Opto Semiconductors supplied infrared laser diodes for the first laser sensors in cars. As one of the first suppliers of powerful infrared LEDs (IREDs), Osram ...
Tags: Lasers, self-driving cars, LEDs
Speaking at a press conference with Taiwanese media at Semicon Taiwan on Sept. 2, 2015, Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura shared his observations on lighting technology trends and commented on Taiwanese LED manufacturers situation. Nakamura ...
Jijun Feng and Ryoichi Akimoto based in China and Japan have developed low-threshold green and green-yellow laser diodes (LDs) based on a beryllium zinc cadmium selenide (BeZnCdSe) quantum well [Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p161101, 2015]. ...
Tags: laser diodes, zirconium dioxide
Pocket projector; mini projector; pico-projector; nano-projector. The muddle of names that has sprung up around these miniature display products succeeds at least in dragging our thoughts away from the projectors that we are more familiar ...
Tags: Pocket Projectors, miniature display products, LEDs, laser
Pricing pressures and a varied international outlook are still facts of life for industrial laser vendors, but overall demand remained in line with expectations during the first quarter of 2014. The regular survey of vendors carried ...
Tags: laser vendors, fiber lasers, semiconductor
The optoelectronic components market is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.41% from 2015 to $55.53bn by 2020, according to the report 'Optoelectronic Components Market by Component (LED, Laser Diode, Image ...
Veeco Instruments announced today that Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM), a leading electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has purchased a GEN200® Molecular Beam Epitaxy System and S UMO® Effusion Cells for production of ...
Tags: Veeco, Asahi Kasei, MBE, IR sensor production
Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) of Sugar Land, near Houston, TX, USA, a manufacturer of fiber-optic access network products (including components, modules and equipment) has announced a new optical engine for use in 100Gbps transceivers ...
Tags: Optical Engine, fiber-optic
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
The global gallium nitride (GaN) industrial devices market is rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.1% from $481.8m in 2014 to $1315m in 2021, forecasts Transparency Market Research in its report 'GaN Industrial Devices ...
Tags: industrial devices, LED devices
The global semiconductor laser market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.1% from $4.8bn in 2013 to $7.7bn by 2020, forecasts a report 'Semiconductor Lasers Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, Laser diodes
University of Oklahoma in the USA has developed interband cascade (IC) lasers on indium arsenide (InAs) substrates with low threshold and high-current operation [Lu Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p251102, 2015]. The researchers claim ...