Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA says that its highly integrated, low-noise amplifier front-end modules are being used by various OEMs to enable global positioning systems (GPS) and global navigation ...
In booth 360 at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2013) in London, UK (23-25 September), the Optical Internetworking Forum is hosting a record number of multi-vendor interoperability demonstrations. Addressing a wide ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which manufactures semiconductors, components, and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a ceramic gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Sic, Electronics
At the 2013 Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Conference & Expo in Novi, MI, USA (17-19 September), GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless provider of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Hybrid Vehicles
The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Research and Development Center for Semiconductor Lighting has been exploring the effect of p-type doping of the barriers in multiple quantum well blue-green (~500nm) light-emitting diode (LED) ...
Tags: Blue-Green LEDs, Electronics
TeraXion Inc of Quebec, Canada (which designs and manufactures optical components and modules for high-speed fiber-optic transmission networks, fiber lasers and optical sensing applications) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, optical components
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, has appointed Bill Gregorak as chief financial officer. Prior to joining Ascent Solar, ...
Tags: Ascent Solar CIGS, Electrical, Electronics
To increase the efficiency of voltage converters and minimize heat losses, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF in Germany are developing transistors based on gallium nitride, characterized by low ...
Tags: IAF FBH, Electrical, Electronics
By blending their expertise, two materials science engineers at Washington University in St. Louis changed the electronic properties of new class of materials — just by exposing it to light. With funding from the Washington ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Metal
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a new high-power amplifier suited to C-band radar and ...
Tags: Plastic Packaging, Electrical, Electronics
cynora GmbH and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) jointly announce the successful launch of Project cyFLEX. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) will serve as a basis for generating flexible and luminescent surfaces for smart ...
Tags: Luminescent Packaging, Lighting
A collaborative team led by Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc (APEI) and including Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America Inc, GaN Systems Inc, the University of Arkansas' National Center for Reliable Electric ...
Researchers from the universities of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and of New Mexico (UNM) have demonstrated semipolar nitride semiconductor blue and green laser diodes (LDs) with part of the upper cladding replaced by indium tin oxide ...
Tags: Iii-Nitride Lasers, Electrical
Azzurro has announced both production and lab milestones in wavelength variation using its GaN-on-Si LED template wafers and Air Water is working on a GaN-on-SiC-on-Si architecture with a new Aixtron MOCVD reactor. While the LED industry ...
Tags: LED Substrate Strategies, Lighting
Growing demands in the LED market were fueled by decreased product prices, government bans on incandescent light bulbs, and shift away from traditional lighting to more energy efficient LEDs. Financial service company Credit Suisse believes ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights