20 June 2012 Cubic silicon carbide grown with quality similar to hexagonal SiC Cubic silicon carbide(3C-SiC)is considered to be very suitable for making highly efficient solar cells but the material quality has been poor compared with the ...
Tags: hexagonal SiC, Solar cells, Cubic silicon carbide, highly efficiency
Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has launched a 40V,0.25µm,GaN-on-SiC HEMT process die product family,with power and bandwidth capabilities through the Ku-band that enables the replacement of travel-wave tubes with solid-state ...
Tags: Cree, GaN-on-SiC, HEMT, Amplifier
Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has announced the qualification and production release of two new gallium nitride(GaN)processes:G40V4(a 0.25µm process with operating drain voltage up to 40V)and G50V3(a 0.4µm process with operating ...
Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has released an updated process design kit(PDK)based on Agilent Technologies'Advanced Design System(ADS)software that will provide microwave and RF design engineers with a comprehensive suite of design and ...
Tags: Cree, GaN-on-SiC, HEMT, PDK, Software
In booth 1625 at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS 2012)in Montreal,Canada(19-21 June),StratEdge of San Diego,CA,USA(which designs and produces packages for microwave,millimeter-wave,and high-speed digital devices)is ...
Tags: StratEdge, CMC, Circuit Board
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro,NC,USA says that its Foundry Services business unit has updated its process design kits(PDKs)for use with Agilent Technologies Inc's Advanced Design System(ADS)2011 electronic design ...
Raytheon Company of Waltham,MA,USA says that its technology facility in Glenrothes,Scotland,UK has been awarded grant funding by the Technology Strategy Board(TSB,the UK government's national innovation agency)that will be used to support ...
Tags: Raytheon, SiC-on-Silicon, ICs, Energy
Cree has released an updated,advanced process design kit(PDK)based on Agilent Technologies'Advanced Design System(ADS)software that will provide microwave and RF design engineers with a comprehensive suite of design and simulation tools for ...
Tags: Cree, Agilent Technologies, GaN-on-SiC HEMT Devices, PDK, ADS
Following opening of the competition last Autumn and closing for applications in December,the'Technology Inspired Innovation'competition for collaborative research&development funding in the UK has now resulted in 43 projects being chosen ...
Tags: UK funds, compound semiconductor, Photonics and Electrical Systems
5 June 2012 Kyma demos K-Slice diamond wire technology on sapphire boules Picture:First slices from a 2"LED quality sapphire boule using Kyma's K-Slice super-abrasive diamond wire technology in a commercial multi-wire saw ...
Tags: Kyma Technologies Inc., K-Slice diamond wire technology
4 June 2012 Cascade launches first fully automatic high-power device measurement probe system Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton,OR,USA,which provides equipment for the precision contact,electrical measurement and test of ICs,optical ...
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A little bit of semiconductor magic made a lot of difference to RF power amplifiers,and looks like it will do the same for mains PSUs. That magic is the'two-dimensional electron gas'that forms between layers in certain semiconductor ...
Tags: GaN, semiconductor, RF power amplifiers, GaAs, SiC, PSU, JFET
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has developed a prototype forced-air-cooled three-phase 400V output inverter with all-silicon carbide(SiC)power modules that has a power density of 50kVA per liter.The module,which is rated at ...
Tags: Mitsubishi Electric, all-SiC inverter, Tokyo, electric resistance
In the presence of Flemish Minister Ingrid Lieten and Limburg Governor Herman Reynders,EpiGaN nv of Hasselt,Belgium has officially opened its new production site in Research Campus Hasselt(RCH)as the location for volume production of its ...
SemiSouth Laboratories Inc of Starkville, MS, USA (which designs and manufactures silicon carbide device for high-power, high-efficiency, harsh-environment power management and conversion applications) claims that, after first ...
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