Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has expanded its family of radio-frequency power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) ...
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Spot prices of 553-grade silicon metal of 98.5% purity rose this week on supply tightness in China even as demand in the country as well as the rest of Asia remains strong. The export price was assessed by Platts at $1,870-1,950/mt FOB ...
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While mid-power LED chips account for only a small proportion of LED lighting currently, the proportion will grow fast over the next few years to reach about 50%, Philips Lumileds Lighting CEO Pirre-Yves Lesaicherre said during a Digitimes ...
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To increase the efficiency of voltage converters and minimize heat losses, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF in Germany are developing transistors based on gallium nitride, characterized by low ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has introduced the EPC2016 as the newest member of its family of enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs). The EPC2016 is a ...
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By blending their expertise, two materials science engineers at Washington University in St. Louis changed the electronic properties of new class of materials — just by exposing it to light. With funding from the Washington ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has launched the PE42820 and PE42821 single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switches for ...
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Union Process, Inc., known globally as a manufacturer of particle size reduction and dispersing equipment as well as related services for a broad range of research and industrial applications has manufactured and delivered a complete ...
Intel is planning a new range of low-power-consumption microprocessors intended to challenge ARM-based rivals in embedded and wearable computing. The new Quark range of Atom microprocessors will weigh in at one-fifth of the size of ...
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LiqTech International Inc's silicon carbide (SiC) membranes are now National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) certified, making them approved for use in drinking water systems. The LiqTech membranes have been tested and certified by NSF ...
The new pan-european strategy was developed with input from exhibitors, leading chip manufacturers, representatives from europe's leading semiconductor clusters, and other government authorities and constituencies in order to leverage ...
The patent-pending LED creates a more precise wavelength of UV light than today's commercially available UV LEDs, and runs at much lower voltages and is more compact than other experimental methods for creating precise wavelength UV light. ...
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A collaborative team led by Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc (APEI) and including Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America Inc, GaN Systems Inc, the University of Arkansas' National Center for Reliable Electric ...
Semiconductor laser developer BinOptics Corp, Ithaca, NY, USA, has incorporated its patented Etched Facet Technology (EFT) into a variety of silicon photonic applications. The company says creating indium phosphide-based lasers and other ...
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Researchers from the universities of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and of New Mexico (UNM) have demonstrated semipolar nitride semiconductor blue and green laser diodes (LDs) with part of the upper cladding replaced by indium tin oxide ...
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