Aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) buffer layers with high aluminium content are necessary for optimal UV-C LED performance. But their band-edge lies below 300nm, so established 405nm in-situ reflectance is insensitive to the surface ...
Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA (which provides crystalline nitride materials, crystal growth and fabrication equipment, and power switching electronics) and Quora Technology Inc have announced a strategic partnership in the ...
Tags: Kyma technologies, GaN, Quora
During the St Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016, Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia (which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LEDs, optical products and RFIC applications) has signed a memorandum of ...
Tags: Monocrystal, Sapphire substrates
BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia – which was spun off from the III-nitride department of Macquarie University in 2005 to develop a low-temperature process using remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) to grow materials ...
Researchers based in Taiwan and USA have increased the modulation bandwidth of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jin-Wei Shi, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 26 May 2016]. The enhanced bandwidth was ...
Xidian University in China has used pulsed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to increase indium gallium nitride (InGaN) room-temperature channel mobility to 1681cm2/V-s, which is claimed to be a record [Yachao Zhang et al, ...
Building on the new commitments to the Global Lighting Challenge announced in early June during the Clean Energy Ministerial, the US Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing funding for nine research and development projects that will ...
For first-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...
Tags: Rubicon Sapphire, substrates
"We not only produce energy-efficient bulbs, but also strive to take the quality of lighting to the next level," says Michael Yu, CEO of the Taiwan-based Liquidleds. He made the comment while marking the debut of the world's first soft ...
Tags: LED Filaments, LED light bulbs
Researchers in Hong Kong and China have claimed the first demonstration of gallium nitirde (GaN) fully vertical p-type-intrinsic-n-type (p-i-n) junction diodes on silicon (Si) [Xinbo Zou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
Tags: GaN devices, Silicon Substrate
In response to increased demand for 4- and 6-inch sapphire substrates, Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia (which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LEDs, optical products and RFIC applications) plans to ...
Researchers based in China, Singapore and Turkey have used an extremely thin layer of silicon dioxide (SiO2) insulator as a charge inverter in indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), improving light output power and ...
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has confirmed that investment firm Paragon Technologies Inc of Easton, PA, USA, ...
Researchers in France claim the first demonstration of 10GHz large-signal microwave power performance for flexible aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [S. Mhedhbi et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
In celebration of World Water Day, Bacardi has launched an in-house initiative to remove straws and stirrers in cocktails at company events. Starting in its North America regional headquarters office in Coral Gables, Fla., and its Bombay ...