silicon to play major role in LED production 13 Dec 2013 IHS predicts rapid transition to GaN-on-silicon LED manufacture for backlighting and some general lighting applications. Silicon switch In a dramatic change from the status ...
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At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington D.C., USA (9-11 December), nanoelectronics research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium reported the first functional strained germanium (Ge) quantum-well channel ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for wireless connectivity and cellular mobility, has developed an advanced envelope tracker to enhance the system-level ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), nanotechnology and semiconductor applications, says that the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research ...
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The penetration of gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers into the light-emitting diode (LED) market is forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 69% from 2013 to 2020, by which time they will account for 40% of ...
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The penetration of gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers into the LED market is forecast to increase at a CAGR of 69% from 2013 to 2020, by which time they will account for 40% of all GaN LEDs manufactured, according to IHS. In ...
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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 ...
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An Accenture survey of 252 CIOs and 405 CMOs shows that, despite IT’s years of work toward business alignment, it remains far removed from marketing. Apparently, more IT executives care about the IT-marketing relationship than ...
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Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company, will introduce its new dynamic flat X-ray detector at the RSNA 2013 Technical Exhibition, 1 December to 5 December 2013, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Teledyne DALSA's latest advances in ...
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Canon U.S.A., Inc. will showcase its latest eye care technologies, including its new imageSPECTRUM (v5.0) Image Management System software, during the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), November 15-19, at ...
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GT Advanced Technology (GTAT) announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire substrate materials for US $578 million (NT $17 billion). Feeling the effect, Chinese sapphire substrate ...
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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 ...
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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) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has shipped its 2 billionth UltraCMOS chip (shipped to ...
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Canada-based QImaging has announced the introduction of its optiMOS scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera that is suitable for a broad range of fluorescence microscopy applications. optiMOS is an alternative to traditional charge-coupled device ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2014 (ended 28 September 2013), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $310.7m, up 6% on $293m last quarter and 48.2% on $209.7m a year ago. The growth is attributed ...
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