Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has received an order for a Compact 21T MBE research system for delivery in 2016 to a laboratory in ...
Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has expanded its offering of mid-power UV LEDs in the 365nm wavelength range with a new device featuring a silicone lens in a compact 1.6mm by 1.6mm by 1.4mm surface-mount package. Designed to ...
LED maker Kingbright Co LLC City of Industry, CA, USA has launched what it claims is the industry's smallest SMD LED, the HELI-UM series. The 0.65mm x 0.35mm x 0.20mm (0201) footprint of the HELI-UltraMiniature allows it to fit into ...
Japan's Rohm Semiconductor has announced the availability of a new 1700V silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) optimized for industrial applications, including manufacturing equipment and ...
Tags: SiC, MOSFET, manufacturing equipment
Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd of Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan has developed what is claimed to be the first 1.2kV-class power semiconductor device chip capable of large-current operation exceeding 20A. Picture: Forward current–voltage ...
At a ceremony at the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) National Centre for Power Electronics Annual Conference 2016 in Nottingham, UK, a post-graduate team from Imperial College London received the £2000 ...
Tags: GaN Systems, power conversion
BorgWarner delivers its pre-emptive on-demand transfer case for multiple Jaguar models. Initially available for the new Jaguar XF, BorgWarner will also provide the all-wheel drive (AWD) technology for the Jaguar XE and F-PACE crossover. ...
Tags: AWD, Jaguar Land Rover, control systems
Ceres Power has now finalised all agreements to begin its new relationship with Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd and M-Solv, as part of the funding arrangement from Innovate UK and The Office for Low Emission Vehicles ("OLEV") as ...
Tags: M-Solv, Ceres Power, alternative fuels
Production of the new GLC Coupe has started at Daimler's Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen, Germany. It is the second new model to be launched at the facility this year, expanding its production portfolio to ten models with the GLC ...
The international automotive supplier Continental supplies Alfa Romeo with its MK C1 for the Integrated Brake System (IBS) of the new Giulia. This marks the first time that the MK C1 electronic brake system enters series production ...
Tags: IBS, intelligent technologies
SsangYong Motor said that the company surpassed 100,000 units of production of its Tivoli-platform and held a ceremony to celebrate the event. Attended by 50 management and employees including Seung-Ki Song, the head of Production ...
Tags: SsangYong Motor, SUV market, XLV
ICT-STREAMS, a part of the European Union Horizon 2020 program, is a new three-year project launched on 1 February (followed by a kick-off meeting at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on 24-25 February) with the goal of ...
Tags: III-Vs-on-Si, silicon photonics
Researchers in Hong Kong and USA have been working on producing optically pumped micro-disk lasers on exact (001) silicon [Yating Wan et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol108, p221101, 2016]. The team from Hong Kong University of Science and ...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, Korea has launched Fx-CSP - a line-up of LED packages featuring chip-scale packaging (CSP) and flexible circuit board technology - for use in automotive lighting applications. "Our new Fx-CSP line-up ...
Zebra Technologies Corporation has unveiled its new ZD400-series desktop thermal printers. Designed for retail, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare industries, the ZD400-series is flexible and user-friendly, making ...