The HB-LED Standards Committee of industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has approved its first standard ‘SEMI HB1: Specifications for Sapphire Wafers Intended for Use for Manufacturing High ...
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Rapidly declining pricing, softening demand and a still uncertain global economy are creating challenges for manufacturers at all stages of the optical industry supply chain, according to the Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound ...
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Delta Microelectronics has become a Globalfoundries channel and Asic partner covering Europe,Middle East and Africa(EMEA). The semiconductor design and production services firm Delta will offer Globalfoundries semiconductor fabrication ...
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The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month.Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager at Verbatim,describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes(LEDs)have become an ...
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Finalists for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Best Partnership Award (announced in London on 22 November) included a laser engineering research partnership involving Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CSTG) of Hamilton ...
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Wireless infrastructure GaAs device revenue boosted by shrinking cell sizes According to Strategy Analytics’ recent market report ‘Wireless Infrastructure Markets: 2011-2016’, gallium arsenide (GaAs) device revenue ...
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The French government is supporting the creation of a number of collaborative research programmes in areas such as 3D semiconductor research,automotive electronic systems and nanotechnologies for smartphones. At the heart of many of these ...
RF Micro Devices Inc(RFMD)of Greensboro,NC,USA,a manufacturer of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies,has appointed Alan Hallberg as corporate vice president and chief marketing officer(CMO).As ...
18 October 2012 RFMD introduces new CATV control components RF Micro Devices Inc(RFMD)of Greensboro,NC,USA,a manufacturer of radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies,has introduced two new CATV control ...
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According to the recently released Strategy Analytics and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service(GaAs)Forecast and Outlook'GaAs Industry Forecast:2011-2016',the overall gallium arsenide device market grew by 6%to a record$5.2bn in ...
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Increasing brightness capability has seen coloured LEDs move into applications that were previously the domain of filtered incandescent light. Perhaps the most obvious example is in car rear light clusters where red-emitting LEDs ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc(RFMD)of Greensboro,NC,USA,a designer and manufacturer of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies,says that its PowerSmart Power Platforms-the industry's first and only ...
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Slow growth in the gallium arsenide (GaAs) device market, coupled with a shift away from GaAs technology for handset switches, reduced demand for semi-insulating GaAs bulk substrates by 4% in 2011, according to the recently released report ...
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Using GaN as a substrate holds promise for many industries,but has immediate applications for light-emitting diodes(LEDs),which Soraa manufactures.A major advancement in a commercially viable new substrate is a promising disruptive ...
Product announcements during the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada in late June highlighted how military applications will continue to grow and drive the fundamental development of semiconductor ...
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