In conjunction with the Defense Manufacturers Conference (DMC 2013) in Orlando, FL (2-5 December), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA is releasing new gallium arsenide ...
EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), nanotechnology and semiconductor applications, has launched the EVG 720 automated ultraviolet ...
Tags: electrical, LED, EVG
The UK-based semiconductor company says that it has doubled efficacy since shipping its first GaN-on-Si LEDs back in April, and that its roadmap includes eclipsing the efficacy advantage currently held by sapphire-based LEDs. Plessey has ...
Tags: MID-Power LED, LED Lighting
Soraa, the world leader in the development of gallium nitride on gallium nitride (GaN on GaN™) LED technology, announced that it will open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Buffalo, New York. In partnership with the State of ...
Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor supplier GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA has announced the immediate availability of a new family of industry-standard surface-mount SMB (JEDEC DO-214AA)-packaged SiC Schottky ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that, in a gala ceremony at the 2013 Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards in London, UK on 27 November, its Group CEO Dr Drew Nelson was presented with ...
Tags: IQE Elektra, Electrical, Electronics
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - and silicon wafer manufacturer SunEdison Inc of St. Peters, MO, USA have entered into a patent cross-license ...
Tags: Soitec SOI engineered substrates, Electrical, Electronics
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA recently opened its newest design center in Seoul, South Korea, strategically situated close to key customers (including some of the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Taiwan is the world’s leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world’s capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). Meanwhile, worldwide ...
The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has reported a triple-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell with an efficiency of 39.2%, ...
Tags: Spain, IES-UPM, reach, efficiency, triple-junction, CPV, solar cell
The design and placement of glass is a vital component of green architecture. It allows for natural light and integrates the interior of office and residential buildings with the exterior. Natural light improves productivity in the ...
Tags: Green Architecture, Glass
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 completed its 2013 initiative to deliver a higher ...
Tags: Peregrine, Lab Facilities
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Fuji Electric Corp of America have been developing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cell structures in efforts to extend the conversion efficiency of multi-junction photovoltaic (PV) ...
Tags: Nitride Barriers, Electrical
Japan’s Tottori University has produced blue-green light-emitting diode (LED) structures using zinc sulfide telluride (ZnSTe) material [Kunio Ichino et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p112102, 2013]. The researchers see their work as ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that China-based concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell maker Guangdong Redsolar Photovoltaic Tech Co Ltd has purchased multiple TurboDisc ...
Tags: Redsolar, MOCVD Systems