Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, South Korea has introduced new color quality improvements for its small-LES (light-emitting surface) chip-on-board (COB) package LC series: the LC010, LC020 and LC040. The improvements are based on ...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, South Korea has introduced a full line-up of chip-scale LED packages (CSP), including 0.6W-class and 3W-class packages, CSP arrays, and PoW (Phosphor on Wafer) packages. Samsung says that its CSP ...
Smartphone chipset solution providers have recently stepping up efforts to win more orders for system chips, including image signal processors, modems, and RF (radio frequency) chips, instead of focusing competition on the core number of ...
Tags: Smartphone Chipset, Chipset
Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd has launched a version of its low-mid-power 5630 package series that attains what is claimed to be record luminous efficiency of 210-220lm/W (at a color temperature of 5000K), as well as a tight ...
Tags: Everlight LEDs, LED designs
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that Seoul-based LG Innotek (a subsidiary of South Korean electronics company LG Group) has selected an AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) reactor for the development of ...
Tags: SiC Epiwafers, Aix G5 WW System
In booth #2321 at SEMICON China 2016 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (15-17 March), Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia (which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC ...
Tags: Monocrystal, Sapphire substrates, LEDs
CCL Industries, a provider of label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, has acquired the assets of Brazil-based privately owned Powerpress Rotulos & Etiquetas Adesivas (Powerpress) for $10.25m. ...
Tags: CCL Industries, Powerpress, packaging
The Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV has developed new ultra barrier films for the flexible encapsulation of organic electronics (OEs) Currently, the facility for coating films by atomic layer deposition ...
Ruling has divided opinion among experts and presents a case that ‘will have long-lasting implications for the application of design rights´for UK creatives. Magmatic, the firm behind the popular Trunki case, has lost its ...
Tags: Trunki, Magimatic, PMS International, Kiddee
The global chip-on-board (COB) LED market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 35.51% during 2016-2020, according to a report by market research firm TechNavio. Key COB LED vendors are listed as Citizen Electronics, Cree, ...
Tags: COB LEDs Lighting market
In booth #2244 at the 31st IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach (20-24 March), Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on ...
Tags: GaN FETs, DC-DC Converter
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has reported full-year revenue for 2015 of €197.8m, up 2% on 2014's €193.8m. Contrary to expectations, San'an Optoelectronics Co Ltd (China's largest ...
Temperature measurement during metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of GaN-on-silicon (GaN/Si) devices is challenging, notes in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany. Theoretically, conventional infrared ...
Tags: MOCVD, GaN devices
SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (an Orbotech company that manufactures etch, PVD and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets) has been ...
Tags: SPTS, ESTnet Awards