As 2016 comes to an end, there were many exciting and surprising technology breakthroughs, based on statistics complied by LEDinside there were at least 10 major technology advancements this year. American researchers make droop free LEDs ...
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has launched two new power amplifiers (PAs) including what is claimed to be the first ...
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The US Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA a contract modification to develop a transition to production process to incorporate gallium nitride (GaN) components into existing and future AN/TPY-2 radars. ...
SENTECH Instruments GmbH of Berlin, Germany says that the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (CNR-IMM) in Catania – which is part of the Physics and Matter Technologies Department (DSFTM) of the National Research Council ...
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UK-based LED maker Plessey has announced the first standard LED module based on its Stellar beam-forming technology. The new standard module is said to open up opportunities for creativity in industrial and architectural lighting design. ...
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UK-based process equipment maker Oxford Instruments has announced the development and launch of a silicon carbide (SiC) via plasma etch process using its PlasmaPro100 Polaris etch system. SiC is becoming an increasingly important ...
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A master supply agreement has established e2v inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (which provides solutions, sub-systems and components to the medical & science, aerospace & defense and commercial & industrial markets) as the global supplier of 100V ...
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is expanding its lineup of gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs) to include models operating at frequencies of 13.75–14.5GHz with saturated output power of 100W (50.0dBm) ...
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Researchers in the USA have grown two-dimensional (2D) layers of gallium nitride (GaN) using a graphene encapsulation on silicon carbide (SiC) substrate [Zakaria Y. Al Balushi et al, Nature Materials, published online 29 August 2016]. The ...
Tags: 2D GaN, graphene encapsulation, SiC
Exhibiting for the first time at an electronic warfare (EW) exhibition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on stand 26 at the Electronic Warfare GCC Conference (EW GCC 2016) in Abu Dhabi (25-26 October) UK-based TMD Technologies Ltd (TMD) - ...
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In booth 156 at European Microwave Week (EuMW 2016) in London, UK (3–7 October), Wolfspeed of Research Triangle Park, NC, USA — a Cree Company that makes gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) high-electron-mobility ...
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Institute of High Pressure Physics (IHPP) and TopGaN Ltd, both of Poland, have been jointly developing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) waveguide structures for use in blue laser diodes (LDs) [Grzegorz Muziol et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol9, ...
Researchers in China have developed indium gallium nitride (InGaN) photovoltaic devices that increase in efficiency with temperature up to 423K [Zhaoying Chen et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p062104, 2016]. "The positive efficiency ...
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At the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE2016) in Milwaukie, WI, USA (18-22 September), VisIC Technologies Ltd of Nes Ziona, Israel - a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) ...
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Power supply design firm Telcodium of Boucherville, QC, Canada, in collaboration with Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA — which designs and manufactures JEDEC-qualified 650V gallium nitride (GaN)-based devices for ...
Tags: Telcodium, Transphorm, GaN FETs