For first-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...
Tags: Rubicon Sapphire, substrates
Researchers in Hong Kong and China have claimed the first demonstration of gallium nitirde (GaN) fully vertical p-type-intrinsic-n-type (p-i-n) junction diodes on silicon (Si) [Xinbo Zou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
Tags: GaN devices, Silicon Substrate
A team led by Alexander Spott of University of California, Santa Barbara – in collaboration with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison – has fabricated what is said to be the first ...
In hall 9, booth 316 at PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany (10-12 May), Japan's Rohm Semiconductor is showcasing its latest power products for high-speed switching and high-power performance, while ...
Fabless high-temperature and and extended-lifetime semiconductor firm CISSOID of Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium has delivered the first prototypes of a three-phase 1200V/100A silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET intelligent power module (IPM) to ...
Researchers in Hong Kong and USA have developed indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) microdisk lasers directly integrated on silicon (Si) with performance comparable to the best reported for similar devices on gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
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Semiconductor process equipment maker SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan is employing about 20 more people at its locations in North America, China, Taiwan and Singapore, as well as its subsidiary Samco-UCP in Liechtenstein, in order to better ...
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In 2014, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of the gallium-nitride-based blue-light LED and its use for new, efficient LED-based white lamps. The development efforts in this field, however, do not stop there. The ...
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Power management company Eaton today announced that the Texas Rangers have installed its advanced light-emitting diode (LED) system at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas. The system features industry-leading control functions that will ...
Tags: Eaton, Texas Rangers, LED, Globe Life Park, Energy Efficiency
HRL Laboratories LLC in the USA has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) vertical tunneling Schottky barrier diode (TBS) that gives good combined on and off performance, compared with vertical Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Y. Cao et al, ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) says that its new non-hermetic 25Gbit/s 1.3μm distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes for 100Gb/s transceivers are now fully ...
Tags: Oclaro, Transceivers, components
SpeciaLase, which is a partnership between DataLase Ltd., the UK headquartered specialiser of inline digital printing, and SATO Corporation, a provider of Auto-ID solutions, is cementing its future in the Asia-Pacific region with the ...
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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 made available the EPC9066, EPC9067 ...
Market sectors encompassing telecommunications, consumer electronics, innovative energy applications in transportation, electricity generation and other market sectors are increasingly valuing power semiconductor devices as usage of these ...
Tags: AC driver, railway applications, high power
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has launched 1310nm and 1550nm high-power ...
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