Soitec of Bernin, France has introduced its eSI90 substrate, the newest high-end wafer in its radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) product family. The eSI90 is designed to improve the RF performance of mobile communication ...
Tags: chipmakers, foundries, high-end wafer, Electrical
As the US Department of Commerce reduced the average anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariff rate imposed on China-made PV modules in 2012 from 30% to 17.50% at a review in early January, prices for polycrystalline silicon solar cells ...
Tags: Solar Cells, PV Modules
For fiscal second-quarter 2015 (ended 28 December 2014), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $413.2m, down 3.4% on $427.7m last quarter but similar to $415.1m a year ago and in the upper half of the target range of $400-420m ...
Tags: LED Demand, LED Lighting Offsets, Electrical
Transphorm Inc, Transphorm Japan Inc, and Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd have announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor group's CMOS-compatible, 150mm wafer fab in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, has started mass production of gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Tags: GaN Power Devices, Electrical
Some Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, due to a fear of losing competitiveness in the US market arising from anti-dumping tariffs being levied at an average rate of 19.50%, have reduced quotes to avoid losing orders from ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Lights
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced the next phase in its ongoing plan to improve safety and reduce methane emissions from its gas system through an expanded strategic alliance with Silicon Valley based Picarro Inc. PG&E ...
Tags: methane emissions, gas system, Auto
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has judged that imported PV products from China and Taiwan have been substantially detrimental to the US PV industry and consequently, about 70% of Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell ...
Tags: PV Makers, solar cell, Lights
Many Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been mulling relocating some of their production capacities abroad to evade US anti-dumping tariffs at an average rate of 19.50%, but they should carefully evaluate the ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Moving Production Abroad, Lights
McGill University in Canada claims to have created the first electrically injected rolled-up semiconductor tube laser [M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p021114, 2015]. Although rolled-up heterostructure lasers have been ...
Tags: optical pumping, tube lasers, Electrical
Copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar panel developer Siva Power of San Jose, CA, USA has received an award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative recognizing its innovative technology and processes that, it is ...
Tags: Electrical solar panels, innovative technology, Electrical
ShopClues, an Indian online marketplace said it has raised over US $100 million in Series D from a group of investors led by Tiger Global, which also saw investments from a majority of existing investors. Founded in Silicon Valley in June ...
Tags: online marketplace, Apparel
Ford opened its Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto at Stanford Research Park to improve its innovation in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, and big data solutions. With the new research center, Ford is expected to become ...
Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its Technologies Group experienced more than 20% growth in 2014, marking its third consecutive year of high growth. ...
Tags: synthetic diamond solutions, emerging markets, Electrical
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 60V EPC2102 and the 80V ...
Tags: power conversion system, chip-scale package, Electrical
The International Trade Commission (ITC) of the United States ruled Wednesday that an American industry is materially injured by reason of imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China, paving the way for the U.S. ...
Tags: PV Products, Punitive Duties