Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh,NC,USA,which provides crystalline gallium nitride(GaN),aluminum nitride(AlN)and aluminum gallium nitride(AlGaN)materials and related products and services,is to enter the GaN crystal growth equipment ...
Taiwan researchers have achieved a reduction in luminous efficiency droop from 42%to 7%by inserting p-type indium gallium nitride(p-InGaN)between the active light-emitting and electron-blocking layers of a nitride semiconductor ...
4 September 2012 Hitachi Cable demo first GaN vertical diode with 3000V breakdown and 1mΩcm2 on-resistance Picture:GaN substrates for power devices.Hitachi Cable Ltd says that it has succeeded in the trial manufacture of what is ...
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3 September 2012 EPC releases safe operating area data for its eGaN FETs Efficient Power Conversion Corp(EPC)of El Segundo,CA,USA,which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon(eGaN)power field-effect transistors(FETs)used in ...
Meaglow Ltd of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada – a privately held firm that produces a range of epitaxy equipment and MBE and MOCVD accessories, as well as providing specialized thin films to research institutes and industry - says that ...
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Light source manufacturer Ushio Inc of Tokyo, Japan says that in November it will begin sales of Superline LEDs, a series of LED MR16 halogen replacement lamps from Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting ...
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According to a filing on 24 August with the US Securities&Exchange Commission(SEC),HexaTech Inc of Morrisville,NC,USA has raised$500,000 in new debt financing involving six investors.A further$54,496 remains still to be raised from ...
Ushio to sell Soraa MR16 LED lamp 31 Aug 2012 As of November 1,Ushio will begin selling the Superline LED MR16 lamps based on Soraa's GaN-on-GaN technology through Ushio's subsidiaries in Japan,Taiwan,Korea,Singapore and Germany.Ushio ...
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Triangular quantum well injection boosts nitride LED efficiency by 80% The State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technology of Sun Yat-sen University has reduced the forward voltages and increased the device efficiency of ...
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Researchers in Switzerland and the USA have reported the first large-signal performance for a gallium nitride on silicon(GaN-on-Si)high-electron-mobility transistors with output power density of 2W/mm and associated peak power-added ...
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Comtech Telecommunications Corp says that its subsidiary Comtech PST Corp in Melville, NY, USA has been awarded a $3.1m contract for solid-state, high-power RF switches from a major domestic prime contractor. The firm says that the ...
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Using GaN as a substrate holds promise for many industries,but has immediate applications for light-emitting diodes(LEDs),which Soraa manufactures.A major advancement in a commercially viable new substrate is a promising disruptive ...
Solid State Lighting (SSL) refers to a type of lighting that utilizes light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), or polymer light-emitting diodes as sources of illumination rather than electrical filaments or gas. ...
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AIXTRON SE announced a new MOCVD system order from existing customer Jilin University China. The contract is for one CCS reactor in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration, which will be dedicated to the growth of gallium nitride materials for UV ...
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LEDs How it works A Light Emitting Diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction of the device. The effect is a form of electroluminescence where incoherent and ...