Graphene on silicon carbide (SiC) has been shown to give an accurate resistance standard and to outperform the presently used gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices in many aspects. Now, researchers at the Centre for Metrology and Accreditation of ...
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Silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor supplier GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc of Dulles, VA, USA has announced the immediate availability of 8000V SiC PiN rectifiers; 8000V SiC Schottky rectifiers, 3300V SiC Schottky rectifiers and 6500V SiC ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to 27 September), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $477m, up 9.4% on $436.1m last quarter and 13.3% on $421.1m ...
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Twitter's stock took to its wings in its public debut, closing up more than 70 percent. The day flew by with nary a hitch and gave birth to a new batch of Silicon Valley millionaires - even a few billionaires. Now comes the hard part. ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA, which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications, has agreed to acquire Mindspeed Technologies Inc of Newport Beach, CA, USA ...
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ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has raised its energy conversion efficiency record for thin-film ...
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The company also announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire material. GT will own and operate ASF® furnaces and related equipment to produce the material at an Apple facility in ...
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Apple have revealed the amount of user information that governments have requested from the California giant, as it?sought to set itself apart from Silicon Valley competitors whose businesses are built on amassing personal data. Apple ...
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Aluminium is enormously flexible, extremely usable and striking construction material due to anexclusive and invincibleblend of properties.Aluminium is the most commonly used metal in the world, next to iron. It is because aluminium has ...
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Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries has reported that its third-quarter 2013 consolidated revenues grew 24.26% sequentially to NT$6.346 billion (US$213 million), while gross operating profit hiked 104.61% to ...
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The Ninth China Steel Annual Conference was held on October 22th -25th at the Beijing Convention Center. Baosteel Group chairman Mr. Xu Le Jiang was invited to deliver a keynote speech of " green business model create green steel - ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless provider of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, is exhibiting and presenting a technical paper at the iPower 2013 ...
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By using a unique silicon fin replacement process, Imec of Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated what it claims are the first III-V compound semiconductor FinFET devices integrated epitaxially on 300mm silicon wafers. The nanoelectronics ...
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In either a cautious or a more aggressive scenario, LED applications will be the key drivers for the bulk gallium nitride (GaN) market, reckons market research firm Yole Développement in its report 'Free-Standing & Bulk GaN ...
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What happens if US loses California food production? Cotton growers huddle to glean variety info for 2014 Is the wine shortage a false alarm? One of the fascinating and little-promoted aspects of agriculture is the amount of natural ...
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