For first-quarter 2014, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $19.3m, up 3.8% on $18.6m last quarter although still down 13.8% on $22.4m a year ago. Fiscal Q1/2013 Q2/2013 Q3/2013 Q4/2013 Q1/2014 Revenue $22.4m $23.8m $20.5m ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched two high-power monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
Tags: M/A-COM X-band radar, Electrical, Electronics, Amplifiers
Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
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RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched a new portfolio of L- and S-band high-gain amplifiers covering 1.2-1.4GHz and 3.1-3.5GHz specifically for commercial and military ...
Tags: power amplifier, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers in Taiwan have produced indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) with low interface trap densities directly on silicon [Yueh-Chin Lin etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p041202, 2014]. InGaAs ...
Researchers at Georgia State University, the University of Leeds and China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a way to use standard semiconductors to detect light over a much broader range of wavelengths, potentially opening up ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has claimed a leadership position in point-to-point (PtP) wireless backhaul with ...
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RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched ten new 1 Watt and 2 Watt broadband amplifiers suitable for defense, EW/ECM (electronic warfare/electronic counter-measures), radar, ...
Tags: power amplifier
At the EDI CON 2014 Electronic Design Innovations Conference in Beijing (8-10 April), Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) ...
Tags: Peregrine CMOS SOI, Electrical, Electronics
ETH Zürich and Philips Technologie GmbH have developed 981nm-wavelength passively mode-locked electrically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (EP-VECSELs) with “the shortest pulses (2.5ps), highest average ...
Tags: EP-VECSELs InGaAs GaAs
In booth #512 at EDI CON 2014 Electronic Design Innovations Conference in Beijing China (8-10 April), Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on ...
Fangliang Gao and Guoqiang Li of South China University of Technology have developed a technique to grow high-quality indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on gallium arsenide substrates using an ultrathin amorphous buffer [Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Ammono S.A. in Warsaw, Poland, which produces bulk gallium nitride (GaN) using ammonothermal technology, and the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Unipress) say they have conceived proprietary new ...
RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched a new family of coaxial X-band high-gain power amplifiers. These RF amplifiers are typically used as driver amplifiers or ...
Tags: power amplifier, Electrical, Electronics
MEI Wet Processing Systems and Services (a subsidiary of MEI LLC) of Albany, OR, USA has launched the FluidJet batch wet processing system for metal lift-off in MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) and compound semiconductor manufacturing, ...
Tags: metal lift-off system, semiconductor, metal