South China University of Technology has used low-temperature barriers between indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) to improve the light output power of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by 23% to 63.83mW at 65mA [Zhiting ...
Tags: Low-Temperature Barriers, Quantum
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has provided solar panels to Projecto YOSI, an organization working to keep Bolivia's Salar de ...
Tags: Solar Frontier, Solar Panels, PV
Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has expanded its offering of mid-power UV LEDs in the 365nm wavelength range with a new device featuring a silicone lens in a compact 1.6mm by 1.6mm by 1.4mm surface-mount package. Designed to ...
LED maker Kingbright Co LLC City of Industry, CA, USA has launched what it claims is the industry's smallest SMD LED, the HELI-UM series. The 0.65mm x 0.35mm x 0.20mm (0201) footprint of the HELI-UltraMiniature allows it to fit into ...
The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
Nanostructure-based CIGS (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film solar module maker Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA and Silicon Ranch are celebrating the completion of Mississippi's largest commercial solar facility to date, ...
Tags: Stion CIGSSe, Solar Facility
With the re-grouping of teams from III-V Lab (the joint Alcatel-Lucent, Thales and CEA-Leti industrial research laboratory), Almae Technologies SAS is taking over III-V Lab's facilities at Marcoussis, which is sited on the Plateau de Saclay ...
Tags: CEA-Leti, III-V Lab, laser components
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – has completed its strategic review and will ...
Tags: Emcore Corp, optical chips
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
Tags: semiconductors, Electronics
Ghent University/IMEC in Belgium and X-Celeprint in Ireland/USA claim "the first III-V optoelectronic components transfer printed on and coupled to a silicon photonic integrated circuit" [Andreas De Groote et al, Optics Express, vol24, ...
Micro-assembly equipment maker Finetech of Berlin, Germany says that a Lambda bonding system has been installed in the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The sub-micron accuracy bonder is ...
Tags: LED, packaging equipment
At the IEEE Honors Ceremony in New York City on 18 June, Dr David F. Welch - co-founder & president of Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical transport networking systems incorporating ...
Tags: Infinera, PICs, digital optical transport networking systems
BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia – which was spun off from the III-nitride department of Macquarie University in 2005 to develop a low-temperature process using remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) to grow materials ...
Researchers based in Taiwan and USA have increased the modulation bandwidth of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jin-Wei Shi, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 26 May 2016]. The enhanced bandwidth was ...
Stion Energy Services - the turn-key project development arm of Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes CIGS (copper indium gallium selenium) - recently completed the installation of the first utility projects in the State of ...