Tokyo-based Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd(SEI),a provider of advanced optical solutions,is expanding its optical device portfolio with the introduction of a 4-channel ROSA with optical demultiplexer for 40Gb/s QSFP+LR4. QSFP+is a ...
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Intel on Thursday demonstrated multi-gigabit wireless docking technology that affords speeds of up to 7Gbps, 10 times the rate of the fastest Wi-Fi networks based on the IEEE 802.11n standard. At its annual Intel Developers Forum, the ...
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University of Glasgow and UniversitéParis researchers have demonstrated for the first time RF performance of 50nm gate-length diamond field-effect transistors(FETs)[Stephen A.O.Russell et al,IEEE Electron Device Letters,published ...
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Kalray is sampling a 28nm multicore processor. Its Multi-Purpose Processor Array (MPPA)-256 processor is fabbed by TSMC. First products to be ramped in volume will be processors for signal processing in an imaging application. Product ...
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The Institute of Physics(IoP)is to celebrate 50 years of the laser diode at the University of Warwick later this month. "In October 1962,four papers were submitted for publication reporting the realisation of the first lasers operating in ...
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Researchers in Switzerland and the USA have reported the first large-signal performance for a gallium nitride on silicon(GaN-on-Si)high-electron-mobility transistors with output power density of 2W/mm and associated peak power-added ...
Tags: GaN/Si, HEMTs, high-electron-mobility transistors, frequency performance
Design of Glasgow's semiconductor laser with monolithically integrated dynamic polarization control.Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a technology that allows the manufacture of semiconductor lasers and associated ...
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UK / USA - Three draft control protocol standards are available for public review on the PLASA website until early October. They may be downloaded for free at the web address below. BSR E1.37-2 - 201x, Additional Message Sets for ANSI ...
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Reducing noise at high frequency in nitride-on-silicon transistors France’s Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN) has produced the first benchmark for low-noise gallium nitride on silicon transistors in ...
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A major fabless semiconductor company is emerging from the UK's high tech start-up community. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips is to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer ...
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IDG News Service-Wi-Fi chip makers are lining up to add WiGig technology to their wireless LAN products,preparing the way for tri-band equipment that can deliver multi-gigabit speeds within a room. On Monday,Marvell Technology Group ...
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Product announcements during the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada in late June highlighted how military applications will continue to grow and drive the fundamental development of semiconductor ...
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University of Massachusetts Lowell, Universidad de Salamanca, and North Carolina State University have integrated aluminium oxide dielectric into III-V ballistic deflection transistors (BDTs) for the first time [Vikas Kaushal et al, IEEE ...
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Israel-Waves Audio has announced that it has become a new member of the AVnu Alliance,an industry forum dedicated to the advancement and certification of Audio/Video Bridging(AVB)devices.As part of this relationship,Waves will be a presence ...
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The Millimeter-Wave Electronics Group of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(ETH)Zurich has been exploring the use of Teflon amorphous fluoropolymer(AF)as an interlayer dielectric for III-V double heterostructure bipolar ...
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