China-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers, considering that China government's temporary ban on polysilicon imports through export processing zones to block evasion of anti-dumping and anti-subsidization taxes is likely to ...
Researchers in Singapore have reported high-frequency performance of gallium nitride (GaN) indium aluminium nitride (InAlN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon substrates, including the first noise measurements [S. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
China- and Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers, in view of growing demand for PV systems in the China market, plan to increase quotes from US$0.88-0.89/wafer in August to US$0.90-0.92, and from US$0.90 to US$0.92-0.94, ...
Tags: Silicon Wafer, PV
China-based solar-grade monocrystalline silicon wafer maker Comtec Solar Systems has revealed it started trial production at its factory in Malaysia in June 2014 and will expand the factory's annual production capacity from 300MWp currently ...
Tags: Comtec Solar, PV
Researchers in Japan and USA have claimed the first experimental demonstration of higher breakdown voltage for slant field-plate (FP) gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) over convention field-plate designs ...
Tags: GaN, HEMTs, Electronics
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers generally saw orders increase in August, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The sequential increases resulted from the makers reducing quotes to US$0.33/W for polycrystalline models ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA - a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) - has launched the UltraCMOS PE42424 high-isolation ...
Tags: Peregrine, CMOS, Wi-Fi Switch
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO) of Tokyo, Japan has begun operations with an AIX 2800G4 HT Planetary Reactor system. The 11x4”-wafer configuration metal-organic ...
Tags: Mitsubishi, GaN-on-Si, power amplifiers
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has qualified Migdal Haemek ...
Tags: TowerJazz, RF Front-End Modules, Electrical
TOKYO — The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is asking for 5 billion yen ($47.6 million) in the fiscal 2015 budget to create an environment more encouraging to entrepreneurs. Japan aims to double the annual business startup ...
Tags: Steps, Japan, Electrical
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Transistor, Electrical
UK full-service energy-efficiency specialist SaveMoneyCutCarbon.com has announced a new partnership as Master Distributor for Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA and its GaN-on-GaN (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) technology, which provides ...
Tags: Soraa, Distributor, Electrical
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has appointed industry veteran Emad Afifi to the newly created role of senior ...
Tags: GigOptix, Senior Director, Electrical
Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 rebounded Tuesday, mainly on higher primary aluminum ingot prices despite no significant change in physical buying interest during the current summer lull, industry sources said. ...
Tags: Aluminum Alloy, Mineral
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, says that, on 3 September (at 11am-12pm ...