Global process control and yield management product leader KLA-Tencor’s newly launched Taiwan Training Facility continues to reflect the market’s important role in the company’s business strategy. New Taiwan training ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has introduced its new silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET product family with new 1200V solutions. The new SiC ...
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has appointed Shenzhen-based Upstar Technology - one of the fastest-growing providers of electronic components and solutions in ...
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In a further move to strengthen its leading position in the market for light-emitting diodes (LED), Osram today officially opened its LED assembly plant in Wuxi, China. The factory has a floor area of about 100,000 square meters and will ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota Motor in association with Denso and Toyota Central R&D Labs has developed a new silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor for use in automotive power control units (PCUs). The new use of new semiconductor in ...
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Brewer Science Inc of Rolla, MO, USA, which provides thin-wafer-handling materials, processes and equipment, has unveiled the Apogee bonder for temporary wafer bonding applications. The firm says that this marks a milestone in leveraging ...
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For fiscal second-quarter 2014 (to end-March), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $42.2m, down 4.5% on ...
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Researchers in Germany have developed two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) gallium nitride (GaN) channel structures with record mobility [B Reuters et al, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol47, p175103, 2014]. Mobility for 2DHGs in GaN is usually ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has shipped an EVG510 semi-automated wafer bonding system and an EVG620 automated bond ...
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SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of plasma etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment systems to compound semiconductors device makers, has relocated its US East Coast regional office. Due to a rise in customers in ...
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Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-diamond wafers have been proven by Raytheon Company to significantly outperform ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has started shipping samples of new 1200V hybrid silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor modules for high-frequency switching applications. Featuring SiC diodes, the modules achieve high efficiency, ...
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LED package industry market scale reached US$7.2 billion in 2013, up 20% from the year before, according to LEDinside. China has become the largest maker of LED products, and the rapidly increasing LED lighting penetration rate in the ...
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Demand for gallium is forecast to rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This strong growth is not, however, likely to result in any ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has introduced the Apex Gas Mixing System for point-of-use gas mixing. The system generates precise binary gas mixtures on a single platform for ...
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