Researchers in the USA have developed vertical Schottky and pn gallium nitride (GaN) diodes on silicon with performance comparable to devices grown on much more expensive substrates [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has for the first time, it is claimed, combined a novel synthesis process with commercial electron-beam lithography techniques to produce arrays of semiconductor junctions ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, Heterojunctions
As demand for crystalline silicon solar cells produced in countries other than Taiwan and China has rebounded mainly due to higher than expected US final anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs on imports from China and Taiwan, prices ...
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Green Charge Networks, provider of commercial energy storage in the US, has announced its partnership with ChargePoint, the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network. Combining energy storage with EV charging eliminates ...
Eindhoven University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, or TU/e) and FOM Foundation have presented a prototype of a solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity (Anthony Standing et al., 'Efficient water reduction ...
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
At its 14th Global Supplier Award ceremony in Stuttgart, Germany, Robert Bosch GmbH has presented Dr Reinhard Ploss, CEO of Munich-based Infineon Technologies AG, with an award in the 'Innovations' category in recognition of the firm's ...
In the emerging photovoltaic technology sector, the energy conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells have has improved incredibly quickly, from just 2% in 2006 to over 20.1% in 2015, according to IDTechEx Research's report 'The Rise ...
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Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France and EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) have launched a program in ...
Cartridges and vials maker Vetter has launched Vetter-Ject, a closure system for prefilled syringes for use in highly-sensitive compounds such as biologics. The closure is expected to cater to the pharmaceutical and biotech companies that ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has launched the EPC2107 (100V) and ...
Tags: electronic components, semiconductor, EGaN Power, wireless power transfer
The share of total global solar photovoltaic (PV) production capacity taken by conventional crystalline silicon (x-Si) solar technologies is forecasted to decline further, from 84.7% in 2014 to 78.4% by 2019, as they approach their ...
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and University of California Santa Barbara in the USA have developed a wafer bonding technology for III-V materials and silicon (Si) using transparent conductive oxide (TCO) interlayers of ...
Tags: electronic components, semiconductor, TCO IZO Tandem solar cells
Using its its proprietary modified Kyropoulos (KY) method, Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia, which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC applications (as well as screen printing ...
At the ITF USA 2015 (Imec Technology Forum) in San Francisco on 13 July, nano-electronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has reported a record 11.3% aperture-area efficiency and 11.9% active-area efficiency for its perovskite ...
Tags: IMEC, Thin-film PV, PV Module