Researchers in China have developed a silicon dioxide (SiO2) on aluminium oxide (Al2O3) passivation for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that offers more than two orders of magnitude reduced current leakage under reverse ...
The University of Glasgow has been awarded £3m in government funding for equipment to support pioneering research to improve the efficiency of electronic and optical components, which includes developing advanced processes on multiple ...
Tags: OIPT, Electrical, Electronics
Taiwan-based IC design companies have seen their order visibility for September remain unclear, predicting third-quarter sales will grow within a range of 10% sequentially, according to industry sources. Recent reports of slow sales of ...
Tags: IC Design Firms, IC vendors
SEMICON Taiwan is set to open in September amidst an improving global and regional outlook for 2013 and 2014 that sees Taiwan remaining the largest and strongest market for semiconductor manufacturing. SEMICON Taiwan 2013, to be held ...
Tags: Semiconductor Market, Electrical
The UK's capacity in power electronics has received an £18m boost from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) with the opening of the first EPSRC National Centre of Excellence for Power Electronics. As ...
Tags: Power electronics, Electrical, Electronics
Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in MEMs and LED manufacturing, and breakthroughs in silicon photonics and printed/flexible electronics. But what comes next? The ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in LED manufacturing. The latest manufacturing, materials and production developments will be showcased at SEMICON West 2013, which ...
Northrop Grumman Corp of Redondo Beach, CA, USA has developed two new 0.1μm gallium arsenide (GaAs) high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) broadband three-stage high-power amplifiers ...
Tags: Northrop Grumman, High-Power MMICs
UMC will use IBM's support and knowledge to improve its internally developed 14nm FinFET Semiconductor company United Microelectronics (UMC) has joined IBM Technology Development Alliances to develop 10nm CMOS process technology. As ...
Tags: IBM, CMOS Process
Northrop Grumman Corp of Redondo Beach, CA, USA has developed a new gallium nitride (GaN) flange-packaged power amplifier targeting military and commercial Ka-band communication applications. The APN180FP represents the first commercial ...
Tags: Northrop Grumman, GaN HEMTs
CEA-Leti will present recent advances and a preview of future developments in micro- and nanotechnologies, followed by workshops on key technical fields, during Leti Innovation Days, June 25-28, on the MINATEC campus. The gathering ...
Tags: Leti Innovation, Nanotechnologies
Semiconductor giant Intel is the mystery buyer that has emerged for ST-Ericsson's global navigation satellite system (GNSS) business. Intel had been fingered as a possible buyer of the unit, put up for sale when joint owners Ericsson and ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Computer Products
Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner on Thursday set out plans for the E.U. to produce more micro- and nano-chips than the U.S. in the next seven years. "I want to double our chip production to around 20 percent of global production. I ...
Tags: EU, US, Race, Computer Products
In an industry project with concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany is developing a new generation of multi-junction solar cells ...
Tags: solar cells, Electrical, Electronics
Osram is to develop glare-free adaptive headlights, where modulating multiple LED die within a headlight allows the shape of its beam to be varied in response to data from forward-facing cameras in the vehicle. Low-beams that adapt with ...
Tags: Osram, LED Headlight