''Gallium nitride power transistors are poised to move out of the labs and into mains PSUs and motor drives,'' was one message from the PCIM power show in Nuremberg this month. ''Only if the price drops and designers can bear the ...
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Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK says that its Sigma fxP physical vapor deposition (PVD) system had been selected by a Chinese foundry dedicated to producing RF ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, has announced the sampling of its pure-CMOS, RFX8420 RF ...
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Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has launched what it claims is the ...
Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has launched a broadband high-IP3 ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has completed the sale of its vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser(VCSEL)-based product lines to optical and wireless ...
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RWTH Aachen University and Aixtron SE in Germany have developed a new technique to create aluminium oxide insulated gates for nitride semiconductor transistors[Herwig Hahn et al,Semicond.Sci.Technol.,vol27,p062001,2012].The method consists ...
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For first-quarter 2012,GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components for high-speed information streaming)has reported a tenth consecutive quarter of sequential growth in product ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm Black Sand Technologies Inc of Austin,TX,USA has been selected to provide its silicon power amplifier(PA)technology for integrated RF front-end products made by Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd.The products will be ...
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Industry Leaders Integrate LED Products and Controls for Maximum Energy Efficiency DURHAM,N.C.,May 07,2012(BUSINESS WIRE)--The growing demand for energy-efficient LED lighting solutions combined with increasingly stringent energy and ...
Freescale Semiconductor of Austin,TX,USA has announced a new reference design for small office/home office(SOHO)base-station applications that is partially powered by two gallium arsenide(GaAs)monolithic microwave integrated ...
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RFMD teams with Silicon Labs to deliver sub-GHz solution for smart energy applications RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro,NC,USA has teamed with Silicon Laboratories Inc of Austin,TX,USA,which provides analog-intensive,mixed-signal ICs,to ...
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RF and mixed-signal semiconductor maker Anadigics Inc of Warren,NJ,USA is shipping production volumes of its AWT6621 fourth-generation High-Efficiency-at-Low-Power(HELP4)power amplifiers(PAs)to NEC CASIO Mobile Communications for the new ...
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Topanga Technologies unveiled its APL Series plasma light sources with superior brightness ideal for architectural,street,industrial and area lighting applications.Topanga's APL product line will be exhibited at the LIGHTFAIR ...
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Antenova Ltd.,the integrated antenna and RF solutions company,have designed a bespoke 2.4GHz ZigBee antenna which has been selected by Telegesis for their latest range of ZigBee Smart Energy Modules.The Antenova antenna has been created ...
Tags: Antenova Ltd, RF solutions, ZigBee Smart Energy Modules, Smart Gas Meter