A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
Tags: GaN p-n junction diodes, GaN Power Switches, solid-state lighting
Gooee, the original ‘Full-Stack’, smart lighting ecosystem provider that connects OEMs to the Internet of Things, has developed, out of Silicon Valley, a multi-protocol enterprise IoT gateway that connects lighting and sensing ...
Tags: Gooee, smart lighting, Sensing
We have heard it for a while now – “with the advent of LEDs, retrofit lamps are on their way out, and the future belongs to dedicated products such as integrated fixtures”. Today I’d like to take another look at this ...
Tags: LED Lighting, bulb, integrated fixtures
Université Grenoble Alpes in France and Applied Materials in the USA have been developing techniques to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon substrates with a small offcut angle [Y. Bogumilowicz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
Tags: GaAs, Quasi-Nominal Silicon, MOVPE
Delphi is planning to improve its self driving technology by incorporating vehicle-to-everything (V2E) capabilities into its Audi SQ5 self driving car. The company introduced the car at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and it is ...
Tags: Delphi, Self Driving Car, sensor
Online search giant Baidu Inc said on Monday that it has set up a new business unit to spearhead its automobile efforts and plans to put self-driving cars on the roads in the next three years. The Beijing-based company, which successfully ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that its new Oslux SFH 4786S infrared LED (IRED) enables iris recognition systems to be made less complex and with lower profiles. At 1.6mm high, the new IRED is about a third ...
Tags: Osram IR LED, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Electronics
The market for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) was $611.3m in 2014 and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.99% from 2015 to $2105.3m in 2020, according to the report ‘VCSEL Market: ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (ended 1 November 2015), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $321.1m, up 8% on $297m a year ago and up 2.3% on $314m last ...
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Electric vehicle startup Faraday Future has selected North Las Vegas in Nevada to set up its proposed factory, with first car set to roll off the plant in 2017. The company previously announced that it was considering sites in California, ...
Tags: CES electronics show, electric highway, EV
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) planned 12-inch wafer fab in China could be vying for 16nm chip orders from China's local IC design houses specializing in the development of LCD driver ICs, touchscreen controllers, TDDI ...
Tags: IC industry, LCD driver
Seoul Semiconductor announced that it has prevailed in a series of patent invalidation actions against Japanese lens maker Enplas also concluded royalty-bearing licenses regarding LED technology with North American television makers, which ...
Tags: Semiconductor, backlighting units, LED chips
Nanodiamond enhanced polymeric heat sinks for LEDs. (Carbodeon/LEDinside) European company Carbodeon has been granted a US patent for its technology which enables detonation-synthesised diamond particles (nanodiamonds) to be combined with ...
Tags: Nanodiamond, LED lighting, mobile devices
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd says that it has prevailed in a series of patent invalidation actions against Japanese lens maker Enplas Corp and has also concluded royalty-bearing licenses regarding LED technology with ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED chips
Ford is releasing a new software update for more than 5 million SYNC-equipped vehicles dating back to the 2011 model year, adding more convenience for Apple iPhone users with Siri Eyes-Free capability. "SYNC, Ford's entertainment and ...
Tags: Ford, Apple, SYNC Software Update