The emerging market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors is forecast to grow a factor of 18 during the next 10 years, energized by demand from power supplies, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and industrial ...
Energized by demand from power supplies, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and industrial motor drives, the emerging market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors is forecast to grow a remarkable factor of 18 ...
In anticipation of growing demand for industrial and automotive applications, Japan’s Toshiba Corp has started volume production of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices at its Himeji Operations–Semiconductor plant in Hyogo ...
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Canon U.S.A., Inc. recently launched the FPA-3030i5+ i-line stepper, designed for the manufacturing of LEDs, MEMS and power semiconductors. The FPA-3030 platform is an upgrade to earlier Canon “FPA-3000 platform” steppers. The ...
Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA is to showcase its latest power management solutions at the Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2013) at Long Beach Convention ...
Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA has announced that co-founder Eric Lidow passed away on 18 January. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then part of Russia) over 100 years ago in 1912, ...
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Dynex Semiconductor has officially opened a new Lincoln-based £1.8m R&D centre as part of an £11.25m investment which will create up to 40 engineering jobs and safeguard its 315-strong workforce in the city. Dynex designs ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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Images courtesy of bikehugger.com Charging your device with pedal power is nothing new, but where are we now as far as advancements? The development was starting early in 2006 where a dynamo could be attached to a bicycle to power ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system), nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has installed an EVG501 wafer bonding R&D system at Texas ...
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KLA-Tencor says its new fourth-generation LED wafer inspection system achieves greater flexibility, increased throughput, and improved efficiency for inspecting defects and performing 2D metrology in LED applications, as well as MEMS and ...
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LED, a kind of semiconductor diode, can transfer electrical energy to optical energy, and emit yellow, green, blue and other visible light as well as infrared and ultraviolet invisible light. Compared with small incandescent bulbs and neon ...
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Electrical test instrument and system provider Keithley Instruments Inc of Cleveland, OH, USA has introduced seven instrumentation, software, and test fixture configurations for parametric curve tracing applications for characterizing high ...
Process control and yield management solutions provider KLA-Tencor Corp of Milpitas, CA, USA has launched its next-generation LED patterned wafer inspection tool. Designed specifically for defect inspection and 2D metrology for LED ...
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Although 2012 turned out to be an off year for RF power amplifiers and devices for wireless infrastructure,the market still held its own,says market analyst firm ABI Research in its report'RF Power Amplifiers'.This year should be viewed as ...
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