Plextek RF Integration of Great Chesterford, near Cambridge, UK, which designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, says that on 3 December at 18:00GMT (10:00PT/13:00ET/19:00CET) its CEO Liam Devlin is presenting ...
Tags: Plextek, GaN Transistors, GaN transistor
Researchers based in USA have been studying performance improvements in aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) ultraviolet (UV) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) gained from using free-standing gallium nitride substrates instead of gallium nitride on ...
Tags: AlGaN, Ultraviolet photodetectors, HVPE
CEA-Leti and its partners in the European FP7 project PLAT4M today announced they have built three silicon photonics platforms. The four-year project, which launched in 2013, aims at building a European-based supply chain in silicon ...
Tags: Leti, Silicon Photonics
Privately held integrated optical communications component and sub-system developer ColorChip of Yokneam, Israel has raised $25m in a round of growth funding. Founded in 2001 by Dr Shimon Eckhouse and professor Shlomo Rushin of the School ...
Tags: Colorchip, Optical transceivers, PICs
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has agreed to buy the 8-inch ...
Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France and its partners say that they have built three silicon photonics platforms, as they reach the mid-point of the four-year European Union Seventh Framework Program (EU FP7) project ...
Tags: Leti, silicon photonics, STMicroelectronics
The photonic integrated circuit (PIC) market was $0.19bn in 2013 and is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.3% from 2015 to $1.3bn in 2022, according to the new market report 'Photonic IC Market - Global ...
Ferroelectric materials have applications in next-generation electronics devices from optoelectronic modulators and random access memory to piezoelectric transducers and tunnel junctions. Now researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...
Recently, quantum dots (QDs)—nano-sized semiconductor particles that produce bright, sharp, color light—have moved from the research lab into commercial products like high-end TVs, e-readers, laptops, and even some LED lighting. ...
Tags: quantum dots, LED lighting, QD light
Soraa, the world leader in the development of advanced lighting products and gallium nitride on gallium nitride (GaN on GaN) LED technology, announced today that it will open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Syracuse, New York. In ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN LED lamps, lighting products
Solvay Specialty Polymers, a world leader in the research, development and manufacturing of high-performance materials designed to master the most challenging requirements in the semiconductor industry, will showcase at Semicon Taiwan 2015 ...
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In 2007 Sony grabbed the world's attention with its XEL-1 TV, offering pitch-black blacks and superb motion resolution from a wafer-thin, low power consumption panel. Despite its modest 11-inch size, the milestone product put organic light ...
Tags: OLED products, OLED display, Sony, Samsung
Last week Samsung became the latest big-hitter to change its strategy in the LED lighting sector, with the Korean technology conglomerate making a significant retreat. Having identified the emerging application as a key growth area just ...
Tags: Samsung, LED Lighting, luminaire markets
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has acquired a High Density Radical Flux plasma technology that enables low-temperature Bosch polymer removal. High Density Radical Flux (HDRF) was developed by ...
Tags: Plasma-Therm, plasma technology, HDRF
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, is to open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Syracuse, NY. In partnership with the ...