VisIC Technologies Ltd of Rehovot, Israel, a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) metail-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) founded in 2010, has unveiled what it ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, power transistor
A team at IBM Research's Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, with support from the firm's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has developed what it says is a relatively simple, robust and ...
Tags: IBM III-Vs-on-Si, Electrical, Electronics, IBM
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) system maker Park Systems Corp of Suwon, South Korea has launched NX-Hivac, which is claimed to be the only high-vacuum AFM system on the market that meets the current and future needs for failure analysis in ...
Tags: AFM, Park Systems
Soitec of Bernin, near Grenoble, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, has announced a definitive agreement to sell its solar system business - including all technology assets and ...
Tags: Soitec, Core Semiconductor
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has expanded its portfolio of RF switches with a suite of analog control ICs for a variety of Internet of Things applications including ...
Tags: Skyworks, switching technologies
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched three UltraCMOS glitch-less RF digital step attenuators ...
Korea Institute of Science and Technology has presented what it says is the first demonstration of indium gallium arsenide on-insulator (In0.53Ga0.47As-OI) transistors with a buried yttrium oxide (Y2O3 BOX) layer [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched two UltraCMOS RF switches that expand its existing ...
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
Knowles has expanded its DLI ‘UX’ ultra-high K dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The material is chosen for its ability to permit electrostatic attraction and repulsion to take place across ...
Tags: material, capacitor, Electronics
Skysilicon Co Ltd of Chong Qing City, China (which makes discrete power devices and power ICs, MEMS sensors and compound semiconductor devices) has released what is reckoned to be China's first gallium nitride (GaN) power device ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si MISHEMTs, Electronics
Zhejiang University in China and University of Cambridge in the UK have jointly developed ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) based on metal-semiconductor Schottky junctions between silver nanowires (AgNWs) and gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA - a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has teamed with Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan (its parent ...
Tags: Semiconductor, integrated circuits
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
Fabless design house VLC Photonics of Valencia, Spain - which provides optical integration solutions and services including photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design or in-house chip characterization and test, together with fabless ...
Tags: Wafer Standard Design Services, packaging services, Electrical