Since the US Department of Commerce in early June imposed preliminary anti-subsidy tariffs on solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers, solar cells and PV modules imported from China, China-based wafer makers have lowered quotes from ...
Tags: Solar-Grade Wafer, Anti-Subsidy
Hiwin comes with a bright picture for its robot shipments this year. (A Hiwin medical robot shown) Impressed by the sanguine outlook of the robot market, Chairman Eric Chuo of the Hiwin Group recently forecasted its?industrial robot ...
Tags: taiwan, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Robot, Machine
Semiconductor manufacturer Scaleo chip has introduced new family of powertrain microcontrollers, the OLEA to control the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. OLEA, the new family of powertrain microcontrollers embedding two unique ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter (ended 27 April), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its seventh consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $306m (up ...
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Researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at temperatures greater than 350°C (about 660°F). Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), their work could improve the ...
Tags: SiC Power electronics HEV, Electrical, Electronics, circuits
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, says that Dr John Glaser has joined its ...
Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs, Electrical, Electronics
An international team of researchers has been exploring nanomembranes of beta-phase gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) as a channel material for high-voltage field-effect transistors (FETs) [Wan Sik Hwang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Transistor
MicroSense LLC of Lowell, MA, USA, which supplies dimensional non-contact wafer metrology equipment for manufacturing silicon, compound semiconductor and power devices as well as magnetic metrology systems for MRAM (magnetoresistive ...
Tags: LED, LED Chip, LED component
At the PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Asia 2014 conference in Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, China (17-19 June), Michael de Rooij (executive director, Application Engineering) from Efficient Power ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and National Taiwan University (NTU) have been optimizing ammonia-based molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for gallium nitride (GaN) growth on a range of substrates [Erin C. H. Kyle et al, J. Appl. ...
Tags: GaN MBE Veeco, Electrical, Electronics
Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA has entered into a letter of intent with Singapore-based Solar Silicon Resources Group Pte Ltd (SSRG) to acquire their assets and merge their business interests. Magnolia's subsidiary ...
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CareDx. which two weeks ago entered into an agreement to acquire ImmuMetrix Inc., has announced that it intends to make an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock with the intent of realizing $50 million. Brisbane, CA–based ...
Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials, due to booming demand for PV silver paste, has seen output short of total order volumes by 30% currently, according to company chairman Chen Chi-jen. Giga Solar shipped 40 ...
Tags: PV, Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The government of Pakistan has announced some new tax measures in its federal budget 2014-15, introducing 10 percent customs duty on flat rolled silicon and alloy steel imports to bring them to a par with flat rolled products of non- alloy ...
Tags: Import Duty, Alloy Flat Steel
Japanese spot import prices of high-carbon ferrochrome rose this week as Indian producers cut output amid a decline in domestic chrome ore feedstock supplies, market sources said Friday. Platts assessed the spot price of high-carbon lumpy ...