Demand for gallium will rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes, but this strong growth is unlikely to result in any tightness in supply as the ...
Tags: Gallium, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Dow Corning Corp of Midland, MI, USA, which provides silicon and wide-bandgap semiconductor technology, has introduced a product grading structure for silicon carbide (SiC) crystal quality that specifies new tolerances on killer device ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has joined a new consortium to establish a pan-European supply chain capability for the high-volume production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Researchers based in Singapore and Turkey have demonstrated a last quantum barrier (LQB) structure for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that improves the electron blocking and hole injection of an aluminium ...
Tags: LEDs GaN InGaN MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics, LED
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA says that its filtering solutions and multi-band, multi-mode PA modules (MMPAs) for LTE smartphones have captured 18 reference ...
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy plans to merge with PV module maker Apollo Solar Energy, a subsidiary solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), while GET plans to merge with fellow maker Utech Solar, a Gintech ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, taiwan
Most of China-based polysilicon makers are disappointed with the punitive tariff rates their government is going to impose on polysilicon imports from the US, South Korea and Europe, because they think that such tariffs are insufficient to ...
Tags: based polysilicon, Electrical, Electronics
Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its ProEficient and ProVantage power amplifiers (PAs) have been selected by multiple Chinese OEMs to enable wireless connectivity in ...
Tags: Smartphone, Electrical, Electronics, Consumer Electronics
National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO, India's largest domestic aluminium producer) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for sourcing an environmentally friendly technology for a 10 tonne per annum (TPA) gallium extraction plant that ...
Tags: Recovered gallium, Electrical, Electronics
The board of directors of analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has elected CEO David J. Aldrich to the additional post of chairman of the board. Previous chairman David J. McLachlan remains a member of the ...
Tags: Skyworks, Electrical, Electronics
Electronics have become an integral, almost mundane, part of our everyday lives. The convenience they bring is great, but there is a downside to their presence. The other day, one of the students I work with took apart a plug-in air ...
Tags: E-Waste, Oncoming Tide
Continental partners with Schaeffler to present the Gasoline Technology Car (GTC) at the 35th International Vienna Motor Symposium scheduled to be held during 08-09 May 2014 in Austria. The joint GTC project demonstrates how a networked ...
Illinois Capacitor has introduced four new lines of surface mount electrolytic capacitors, with maximum temperature ratings of 105°C to 125°C.? These cost-effective products are designed to handle a wide range of applications in ...
Tags: conductors, dielectrics, Electrical, Electronics
Overall, 2014 is expected to be a great year for the supercapacitor industry. This is the prediction of technology market analyst IDTechEx which looked at last year's industry results and estimated a 30% CAGR for the supercapacitor market ...
Tags: supercapacitor, Electrical, Electronics
GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Merrimack, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and power electronics markets) says that it will ...
Tags: GT Sapphire furnace, Electrical, Electronics