China’s Xidian University has produced ‘normally-off’ gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with a thin high-aluminium-content aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier layer [Kai Zhang et al, ...
Tags: Xidian University, normally-off, GaN, HEMTs
Semiconductor materials distributor Wah Lee Industrial has reported revenues of NT$2.89 billion (US$97.95 million) for October 2013, down 5.5% sequentially but up 9.9% on year. Cumulative sales through October reached NT$28.38 billion, ...
Tags: Semiconductor, materials
Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor supplier GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA has announced the immediate availability of 8000V SiC PiN rectifiers; 8000V SiC Schottky rectifiers, 3300V SiC Schottky rectifiers and 6500V SiC ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Semiconductor capital equipment provider OEM Group of Phoenix, AZ, USA has opened its new Sales and Service Center in Yokohama, Japan. Operating from this strategic central location, OEM Group Japan G.K. has doubled its staffing in the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
With LED backlighting technology approaching saturation point in the liquid-crystal display (LCD) television panel market this year, suppliers of light-emitting diodes are turning their attention to the new growth opportunity in the ...
Tags: LED market, LED Backlighting, LED
With LED backlighting technology approaching the saturation point in the LCD TV panel market in 2013, suppliers of LEDs are turning their attention to the new growth opportunity in the fast-expanding lighting segment. The proportion of ...
Tags: backlighting LCD, LED Backlighting, LED, Lights, Lighting
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA says that HTC and Samsung are ramping Skyworks' SkyOne, a highly customizable, fully optimized front-end solution, in several of their recent smartphone launches. The ...
Tags: semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics, HTC, Samsung
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications, says that researchers at Germany's Ulm University have used LayTec's EpiCurve TT ...
Tags: LayTec HVPE GaN, Electrical, Electronics
By using a unique silicon fin replacement process, Imec of Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated what it claims are the first III-V compound semiconductor FinFET devices integrated epitaxially on 300mm silicon wafers. The nanoelectronics ...
Tags: FinFETs III-V CMOS, Electrical, Electronics
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 its 2 billionth UltraCMOS chip (shipped to ...
Tags: Peregrine SOS SOI RF CMOS, chip, Electrical, Electronics
For third-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $11.1m, down 45% on $19.9m ...
Chinese Academy of Sciences' Semiconductor Lighting R&D Center at the Institute of Semiconductors in Beijing has developed an electrically driven color-tunable light-emitting diode (LED) based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum wells ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 28 September 2013), JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported revenue of $429m, up 1.8% on $421.3m last quarter and 1.9% on $420.9m a year ago (and at the high end of the guidance range of $410-430m). ...
Universal Display Corp. announced that the Japanese IP High Court delivered a decision reversing the Japanese Patent Office’s (JPO) prior invalidation of the broad claims in the Company’s Japanese Patent No. JP-4511024 (the JP ...
Tags: IP High Court, OLED Patent
Scientists from IBM and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic hydrogel that can deliver ...
Tags: Cancer Drug, Medicine