X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading More than Moore foundry, has announced the industry’s first cost-efficient 180nm SOI technology for automotive and industrial applications that need to operate in harsh environments. X-FAB's new ...
Tags: X-FAB, SOI technology, high-voltage devices, auto accessories
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, Korea has introduced new chip-on-board (COB) LED package lineups, including small LES (light-emitting surface) COB packages, high CRI (color rendering index) COBs and vivid COBs which, due to their ...
Tags: Samsung LEDs, LED Packages
Princeton Power Systems of Princeton, NJ, USA - which designs and manufactures products for energy management, micro-grid operations and electric vehicle charging - has demonstrated for the first time a grid-tied bi-directional power ...
Tags: SiC JFETs, Power Converter
Solar Junction Corp (SJC) of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes what are reckoned to be the highest-efficiency commercially available multi-junction solar cells for terrestrial concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) applications, has announced plans ...
KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has used corrugated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (CELOG) to create heterojunctions consisting of n-type indium phosphide (n-InP) and p-type silicon (p-Si) [Y. T. Sun et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Tags: corrugated epitaxial, silicon
Japan's Rohm Co Ltd has started mass production of what it claims is the first silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a trench structure (where the gate is formed on the sidewall of a groove in ...
Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) has introduced the G2020 Series, its latest three-phase uninterruptible power system (UPS), in which silicon carbide (SiC) power modules in a three-level design enable 98%-efficient power protection ...
Tags: Toshiba SiC power modules, Electrical, Electronics, UPS
Soitec of Bernin, near Grenoble, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, has announced a definitive agreement to sell its solar system business - including all technology assets and ...
Tags: Soitec, Core Semiconductor
North Carolina State University in the USA has developed a new edge termination technique for 4H polytype silicon carbide (4H-SiC) high-voltage devices [Woongje Sung et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 29 April 2015]. The ...
Mercedes-Benz has completed construction of a crash test facility at its Sindelfingen site in Stuttgart, Germany, said to be the world's most advanced. The new technology centre for vehicle safety (TFS) comprises a complete 90x90 ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Crash Test, vehicle safety
Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings launched the Water & Wastewater App designed to provide users with protective coating recommendations for the following water and wastewater operations: conventional water treatment, membrane ...
Cabela’s Inc. announced its interest in opening a store in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Upon receiving final approval and permits from the city of Abbotsford and the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, ...
Researchers in Europe have developed a low-temperature plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE) process for direct growth of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) on silicon (Si) substrates [Pavel Aseev et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, ...
Skysilicon Co Ltd of Chong Qing City, China (which makes discrete power devices and power ICs, MEMS sensors and compound semiconductor devices) has released what is reckoned to be China's first gallium nitride (GaN) power device ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si MISHEMTs, Electronics
McLanahan’s grocery store is located in Jamaica Junction or Chromic Town and it is here where the rise of electronic cigarettes is quite evident. The grocery store displays popular electronic cigarettes and a multitude of accessories ...
Tags: Electronic Cigarettes, Cigarettes