Printed electronics are rapidly gaining popularity across applications for their benefits of low cost, high throughput, ease of manufacturing, and use in new applications. Industries are strongly backing innovations in this domain due to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Packaging, Printing, Printed Electronics
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has received the ‘red dot award: product design 2013’ for its ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN, LED Mr16 Lamp
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that its UltraCMOS phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer and prescaler ...
Researchers at Purdue and Harvard universities have developed gallium arsenide (GaAs) enhancement-mode (E-mode) surface/n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (NMOSFETs) with a maximum drain current of 336mA/mm, which ...
Tags: NMOSFETs, GaAs, GaAs transistor ALE
Building solar voltaic cells from nanowires instead of standard metal conductors can increase the amount of energy that can be captured by a factor of 15, according to a new study by scientists from the Nano-Science Center in Denmark. The ...
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The Netherlands-based textile and graphics printing equipment supplier Stork Prints BV has developed a new hybrid screen for the textile printing market. The new NovaScreen® 195-19% is a combination of the existing open area NovaScreen ...
Tags: Stork, Debuts Novascreen, Textile Printing
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” ...
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Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have succeeded in developing electrically powered nano-scale lasers that operate effectively at room temperature – a step that could pave the way for their use in a variety of practical ...
For 2012, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported record full-year revenue of £88m, consisting of £69m (79%) from Wireless, £18m (20%) from Photonics, and £0.95m (1%) from ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that, in the next few years, the use of patterned sapphire substrates (PSS) ...
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Taiwan-based sapphire wafer makers are expected to have 2013 revenues decreasing by 10% from 2012 because many China-based fellow makers will bring production capacities into operation in 2013 and this will cause price drops, according to ...
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The first millimeter-wave power demonstration of aluminium gallium nitride/gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN) grown on a (110) silicon substrate has been claimed by a French team of researchers [A. Soltani ...
PPG Industries has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for “significant achievements” in advancing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting technology. Dennis O’Shaughnessy, Ph.D., PPG associate ...
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Soraa has received the prestigious “red dot award: product design 2013” for its full-visible-spectrum SORAA VIVID LED MR16 lamp. The red dot is the international prize for high design quality. The competition’s jury only ...
UK-based etch and deposition system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), a division of Oxford Instruments, has announced an evolution in batch etch technology with the launch of its PlasmaPro1000 Astrea etch system, a large ...
Tags: Oxford Instruments, HB-LED Production, Plasma Technology