Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has shipped the first RF switches built on its ...
Since the polycrystalline silicon solar cell sector has come to a bottleneck hiking energy conversion rates and cost is increasing, monocrystalline silicon solar cells seem to have an advantage in terms of overall cost-effective ratio and ...
Tags: solar cell, Global Market
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers Neo Solar Power, Gintech Energy and Solartech Energy as well as solar wafer makers Gigastorage and Green Energy Technology (GET) have all reported consolidated revenues for April, with Neo ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has demonstrated gallium nitride (GaN) vertical Schottky and p-n diodes on silicon Si substrates “for the first time” [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
Tags: GaN, MOCVD, Gallium Nitride Diodes
Crystalline silicon solar cell makers Gintech Energy and Motech Industries have released first-quarter 2014 financial reports, recording net EPS of NT$0.60 and NT$0.35 respectively. Gintech posted consolidated revenues of NT$4.287 billion ...
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Japan’s TDK will establish a product development base in California’s Silicon Valley that will focus on next-generation electronics parts. The center will be ready during the current fiscal year, which ends next March. TDK ...
Tags: TDK, Electronic Parts
On May 5, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced its affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) from the People’s Republic of China (China), the ...
Tags: Electrical Steel, DOC, Iron, Steel
There is likely to be concentration of PV systems installed around China due to government-offered feed-in tariff subsidies in the second half of 2014, and consequently Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers are expected to ...
Tags: PV System
For first-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €43.9m, down 14% on €51.1m last quarter but up 9% on €40.2m a year ago. Of total revenue, 73% (€32.1m) came from ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD, LED, Electrical, Electronics, deposition equipment
People are forever complaining about how the digital world has robbed them of something or other. Peace. Anonymity. Freedom itself. I just see possibilities. So I've been keen to follow a new kind of connection made possible by the ...
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For first-quarter 2014, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has reported revenue of $7.4m, down 5% on $7.8m last quarter ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has announced the availability and full technical support for 17 ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has received an order for its railcar traction inverter with all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules (made with SiC transistors and SiC diodes), placed by Odakyu Electric Railway Co Ltd. This is the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
According to Yole Développement's new market research report 'LED Front-End Manufacturing Trends' (which covers substrates, epitaxy, lithography, plasma etching & deposition, PVD and testing), the LED substrate is one of the key ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK has been awarded a grant by the UK's Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to evaluate the feasibility of using its unique stress relief technology to enable the production of low-cost, high-brightness ...