Researchers in South Korea have used electrochemical potentiostatic activation (EPA) to alter the hydrogen content in p-type gallium nitride (GaN) layers with a view to improved performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [June Key Lee et ...
Tags: GaN layers, P-Gallium Nitride
Plextek RF Integration of Great Chesterford, near Cambridge, UK, which designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, says that its CEO Liam Devlin is presenting the paper 'Designing GaN PA MMICs' in the Microwave, ...
Tags: Plextek, Microwave Circuit
X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany and Exagan of Grenoble and Toulouse, France have entered into a joint development agreement to industrialize Exagan's GaN-on-silicon technology, begin producing high-speed power switching ...
Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan is launching what it claims is the industry's smallest enhancement-mode (E-mode) gallium nitride (GaN) power transistor, encapsulating into an 8x8 dual-flat no-lead (DFN) 'X-GaN' surface-mount package. A ...
Tags: Panasonic, GaN Power Transistor
North Carolina State University in the USA has developed a new edge termination technique for 4H polytype silicon carbide (4H-SiC) high-voltage devices [Woongje Sung et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 29 April 2015]. The ...
China's coal imports, including lignite, thermal and metallurgical coal, fell 32.7% year on year to 17.03 million mt in March, the ninth consecutive year-on-year decline, data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC) showed Monday. ...
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Registration is now open for the longest-running polyurethanes conference in North America. The 2015 Polyurethanes Technical Conference, hosted by the Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council, brings ...
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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
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has launched a 650W gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon carbide ...
US chemist David McGarvey, Ph.D, at the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and his team of researchers who are a part of a team led by the Natick Soldier Systems Center, is developing ...
Tags: army uniforms, protective suits, Self-Decontaminating Suits
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced a 25W gallium nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) for 6–12GHz performance. Leveraging the inherent benefits of GaN technology, the new MMIC enables extremely wide ...
Tags: integrated circuit, GaN technology
China's auto sales dropped 0.2 percent year on year to 1.59 million units in February, an industry association said on Tuesday. Vehicle output stood at 1.63 million units in the month, down 0.4 percent year on year, according to the China ...
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Teledyne Scientific & Imaging and test instrument maker Teledyne LeCroy of of Chestnut Ridge, NY, USA (a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc) say that researchers at the Microwave Electronics Lab at Chalmers University of Technology in ...
Tags: Wireless Transmission, 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
ROHM of Kyoto, Japan says that its SCT2080KE silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET has been adopted in the new SiC-Pulser Series of ultra-high-voltage pulse generators launched by Japan's Fukushima SiC Applied Engineering Inc. Picture: ...
Tags: Pulse Generators, Generators