Leading U.S. LED manufacturer Cree announced earlier this month, it will be rebranding its power and RF business as Wolfspeed. In an exclusive interview with LEDinside analyst and assistant manager Joanne Wu, Cree co-founder and CTO John ...
Tags: Cree, Wolfspeed, RF and power business, Market Branding
Metrology and inspection equipment maker Lasertec Corp of Yokohama, Japan has launched SICA88, the latest model of its SiC wafer inspection and review systems. Featuring both surface and photoluminescence (PL) inspection capabilities, ...
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The US Air Force has awarded Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which makes silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices as well as LEDs, a $4.1m follow-on contract, enabling qualification of a high-performance power ...
Tags: GaN wafers, SiC
New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that GE Global Research Center of Niskayuna, NY, USA will expand its New York global operations to the Mohawk Valley, serving as the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization ...
Tags: SiC Power Electronics, packaging
For full-year fiscal 2015 (ended 28 June), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $1.63bn, down just 1% on fiscal 2014's record $1.65bn. Specifically, revenue for Lighting Products (mainly LED lighting systems and bulbs) grew ...
Tags: LED Product, LED chips
According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
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II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA says that the Advanced Materials Division of its Performance Products Segment in Pine Brook, NJ, which supplies single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) substrates and CVD-grown polycrystalline diamond materials, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, II-VI, SiC substrates, SiC Wafer
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Electric Corp has completed installation of, and begun testing, railcar traction converter/inverter systems with all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules on N700 Shinkansen bullet trains for Central Japan Railway Company ...
Tags: Mitsubishi Electric, SIC power modules, Tokyo-Mitsubishi Electric Corp
With funding of about €3.9m from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 12 partners in the German automotive sector, its supply industry and the sciences (led by Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany) are ...
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp says that its traction inverters incorporating all-silicon carbide (SiC) power modules, installed in a 1000 Series urban commuter train operated by Japan's Odakyu Electric Railway Co Ltd, have been ...
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Japan's Rohm Co Ltd has started mass production of what it claims is the first silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a trench structure (where the gate is formed on the sidewall of a groove in ...
Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) has introduced the G2020 Series, its latest three-phase uninterruptible power system (UPS), in which silicon carbide (SiC) power modules in a three-level design enable 98%-efficient power protection ...
Tags: Toshiba SiC power modules, Electrical, Electronics, UPS
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK is participating in a £9.5m government initiative to modernize the UK energy infrastructure to cope with the unprecedented change in energy consumption, generation and distribution. UK ...
Energized by growing demand for power supplies, hybrid and electric vehicles, photovoltaic (PV) inverters and other established applications, the emerging global market for silicon carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductors will grow ...
Tags: GaN SiC Power electronics, power supplies, Electronics
Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan and Osaka-based Sansha Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd have developed a compact silicon carbide (SiC) power module, together with highly efficient operation of power switching systems. The module is said to have ...
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