Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) has completed its acquisition of CyOptics Inc of Lehigh Valley, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and u2t Photonics AG of Berlin, Germany, which makes high-speed indium phosphide-based photodetectors and receivers as well as gallium ...
Tags: Fiber-optic communications, component, subsystem, Electrical, Electronics
Research firm IHS expects that there will be more than 100 billion GaN LED units to be shipped in 2013 and the revenue from GaN LED products will exceed 100 billion U.S. dollars. IHS expects that the total revenue of GaN LED products ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world's biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), says TUV SUD has confirmed that its latest commercial-sized (1.09m2) CIGS (copper ...
Tags: TSMC Solar CIGS, Electrical, Electronics, Solar
Widespread geographical diversification of PV installations will quadruple supply in five years, says Lux Research. EPIA's global solar forecast (click to enlarge) With high-profile bankruptcies, shrinking subsidies and a ...
Tags: PV, Electricity Supply
Manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group also wants to ride the upcoming wave of wearable tech, and has unveiled a wristband that can monitor a user's health and sync with a smartphone. When worn, the wristband can monitor a user's ...
Tags: Smart Watches, Wristband, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
Japan's Sharp said Thursday it will team with a large Chinese manufacturer to build a factory in Nanjing and mass-produce LCD screens for TVs, computers and tablets. Sharp said it will form a joint venture with China Electronics Corp. ...
Tags: Sharp, LCD Panel, Chinese Firm
It is reported that Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed silicon substrate green and yellow nitride semiconductor LEDs. Details of the development were published in the May 29th issue of IEEE Electronic ...
Tags: HKUST, Lighting, Semiconductor, LED
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has introduced the Infinera Intelligent Transport ...
Tags: Infinera, Transport Network
To meet the growing demand for gallium in LED manufacturing in North-East Asia, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is to invest in a new gallium chemicals facility to be located in South ...
Tags: 5N Plus, LED, Electrical, Electronics
In response to SSL Manufacturing R&D funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0000792, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the competitive selection of five projects for solid-state lighting (SSL), involving a total of ...
Tags: Lumileds Lighting, Electrical
Nippon Paint Co. has been granted a patent for a metal surface treatment liquid for cation electrodeposition coating which is comprised of zirconium ions, copper ions and other metal ions, and has a pH of 1.5 to 6.5, wherein the other metal ...
Tags: Paint, Coating, Construction
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA (maker of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, which it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products), says that its EnerPlex Kickr IV (a ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network ...
Tags: Infinera, Production Network