Researchers at University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA have claimed record high breakdown voltage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) lateral Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on silicon [Mingda Zhu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
Tags: silicon diodes, GaN substrates
Fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a-chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA has launched what is claimed to be an industry-first 100G-CWDM system-on-chip fully integrated optoelectronic S-roC receiver IC ...
Tags: silicon photonics, receiver, transmitter
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for data-center servers and storage systems, has announced commercial deployments of its new 100Gb/s LinkX active optical ...
Tags: optical cables, Mellanox, Cables
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, transceiver
Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Gintech Energy has reported revenues of NT$15.567 billion (US$493 million), gross margin of 3.78%, net operating loss of NT$108 million, net loss of NT$378 million and net loss per share of NT$0.93 for ...
Tags: Crystalline silicon, solar cell
Significantly decreased global demand has pressed Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers to lower quotes from an average level of US$0.30-0.32/W for polycrystalline silicon models in February 2015 to that of US$0.28-0.32/W ...
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
Feetz, which specializes in customizable footwear using 3D printing, closed on a $1.25 million seed round. The capital infusion will be used to launch the Feetz platform directly to customers later this year via the first ...
Tags: 3D printing, Feetz, Sporting Goods
At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and provides gallium nitride-based power conversion ...
Tags: Transphorm, APEC, Electronics
At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has announced the expansion of its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon technology ...
Tags: Evatec Sputtering, PVD, Electronics
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching transistors based on its proprietary Island Technology for power conversion and control applications, has announced new top-side ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Power electronics, Electronics
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has introduced the EPC9115, a ...
Tags: EPC, DC-DC converter, Electronics
To provide an easy-to-use way for power systems designers to evaluate the performance of gallium nitride transistors and get their products into volume production quickly, Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which ...
Tags: EPC, FETs, Electronics
Cavendish Kinetics of San Jose CA, USA, which provides RF MEMS tuning solutions for smartphones, handheld and wearable wireless devices, says that its SmarTune antenna tuning solution is gaining significant traction in the LTE smartphone ...
Tags: MEMS, Cavendish Kinetics, Electronics
Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has demonstrated a 1-sun photovoltaic (PV) solar energy conversion efficiency of 15.3% using a gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: GaAs, PV, Electronics