Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
In booth #2321 at SEMICON China 2016 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (15-17 March), Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia (which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC ...
Tags: Monocrystal, Sapphire substrates, LEDs
The new season will debut on Discovery Family on Saturday, March 26th and will kick off with a special one-hour premiere. Hasbro Studios’ hit children’s series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has undergone a Game of ...
Tags: My Little Pony, Hasbro Studio
For fourth-quarter 2015, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $2.45m, more than halving from ...
Tags: Rubicon, Sapphire substrates
Crystal IS Inc of Green Island, NY, USA, an Asahi Kasei company that makes proprietary ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVC LEDs), has augmented its Optan SMD (surface-mount device) product line for instrumentation with the addition of ...
Tags: Crystal IS, UVC LEDs
The US Department of Energy's (DoE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Tennessee, has improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride ...
Tags: Solar Cells, vacuum-seal
After unveiling its third generation of in-situ metrology tools last October, in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that the EpiTT Gen3 is now available as the first representative of this Gen3 product class. ...
Tags: UV LED epitaxy, sapphire
Food packaging specialists Linpac and Graphic Packaging have jointly developed patisserie cartons that are suitable for packaging cakes, cream buns, gateaux and pastries. Through the partnership, Graphic Packaging has made carton board ...
Star Wars was not the only force making a come-back in 2015. The return of generic advertising brought with it a promise of increased profitability for the diamond trade. Even as numerous stories reflecting pain in the industry vied for our ...
It's been about half a year since the idea of Internet Plus Strategy was raised by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The strategy is an action plan to integrate the mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data and the Internet of Things with modern ...
Crystal IS Inc of Green Island, NY, USA, an Asahi Kasei company that makes proprietary ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVC LEDs), is now ISO 9001:2008 certified. The firm's UVC LEDs are based on Crystal IS' proprietary native aluminium ...
Tags: Crystal IS, UVC LEDs, Electronics
Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
Tags: Tsinghua Unigroup, semiconductor, Processing Machinery
Université Grenoble Alpes in France and Applied Materials in the USA have been developing techniques to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon substrates with a small offcut angle [Y. Bogumilowicz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
Tags: GaAs, Quasi-Nominal Silicon, MOVPE
Researchers in Germany are proposing scandium nitride (ScN) as a suitable buffer for gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon (Si) growth [L. Lupina et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p201907, 2015]. The attraction of ScN is a very small mismatch ...
Tags: GaN devices, microscope
The cover art of Faye Wong's album. [Photo/China.org.cn] Faye Wong has announced that she will release a new album entitled "Getting By", which will be her first album release in 12 years. The pop diva hasn't released a studio album in ...