3D-Micromac AG of Chemnitz, Germany (which supplies laser micromachining systems and roll-to-roll laser systems for the photovoltaic, medical device and electronics markets) says that its microDICE laser micromachining system has been ...
Tags: High-Power Diodes, power device
By the end of 2016, more than half of all new automotive 77GHz radar systems worldwide will be equipped with chips from Munich-based Infineon Technologies AG, meaning that about one in 15 new cars will use a driver assistance system using ...
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 ...
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 announced its SiGe Terabit ...
Tags: TowerJazz RF CMOS SiGe
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched two new broadband 75Ω monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) front-end, low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) designed ...
Tags: Skyworks
Rearchers in China claim the first radio frequency (RF) switch device based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs)-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) technology [Zhou Jiahui et al, J. Semicond. 2016, vol37, ...
Tags: InGaAs MOSFET RF switch
GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced new radio-frequency silicon solutions, further ...
Tags: Wireless Devices, semiconductor
GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced the availability of a new set of process design kits ...
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
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has unveiled its suite of 75Ω low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) and high-performance switches supporting higher data rates across ...
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd of Petah Tikva, Israel (which provides products and services for satellite-based broadband communications) has signed a development agreement with a major aerospace systems integrator to further develop both its ...
Université Grenoble Alpes in France and Applied Materials in the USA have been developing techniques to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon substrates with a small offcut angle [Y. Bogumilowicz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
Tags: GaAs, Quasi-Nominal Silicon, MOVPE
Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has appointed Arjang J. (AJ) Roshan as president & CEO, effective 15 February. He replaces Jacques L’Ecuyer, who co-founded the firm in 2000 and ...
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
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