In its recently updated roadmap document (first published in 2011, and last updated in 2013), the Joint European Platform for Photonic Integration of Components and Circuits (JePPIX) predicts a €1bn market size for PIC-enabled products ...
Tags: Magnolia Solar Flexible CIGS, foundry approach, Electronics
Phoseon Technology of Hillsboro, OR, USA has introduced a higher-power FireJet FJ100 UV LED curing light source to help address the challenges for space-limited environments where water cooling is prohibitive. The FJ100 air-cooled UV ...
Tags: UV LEDs, Phoseon, Electrical
After her last year’s breakthrough innovation, Wearable Solar, Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has come up with a revamped version titled Solar Shirt that combines not only the high-tech advantage of charging a smartphone ...
Tags: Wearable Solar, T-shirt features, Apparel
Nissan is planning to introduce its self-driving cars in Japan by next year, which will be able to navigate on its own on the highway. By 2020, the company aims to further advance the technology and make the car ready to navigate on busy ...
Tags: Nissan, Honda, Auto Parts
Royal Philips NV of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (the world's largest lighting producer) has agreed to sell an 80.1% stake in its combined LED components and Automotive lighting business to GO Scale Capital, a new growth-stage investment fund ...
Tags: Lumileds, Royal Philips, Electronics
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
In acquiring an 80.1% stake in Philips' combined LED components and Automotive lighting business (with Netherlands-based Philips retaining the remaining 19.9%), new owners GO Scale Capital (an investment fund sponsored by GSR Ventures and ...
Tags: Lumileds, LED components, Electronics
Supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the 'Photonic Process Chains' initiative, the project 'Integrated High-Volume Production along the LED Value-Added Chain for Large Wafers and Panels' (InteGreat) ...
Tags: Osram HB-LEDs, BMBF, Electronics
X-ray-based in-line metrology and defect detection tool maker Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd (JVS) of Migdal Haemek, Israel has received a strategic order for its QC3 high-resolution x-ray diffraction (HR-XRD) system for strain and ...
Funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Invest Northern Ireland (InvestNI) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) government agencies through the US-Ireland R&D Partnership program, over €1m has been awarded for the project ...
New Market Research Reports Title “Global Specialty Polymers Market Analysis Size and Segment Forecasts to 2020” Has Been Added to GrandViewResearch.com Report Database Specialty polymers market is expected to witness ...
Tags: New Market, intelligence studies, Medicine
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched a highly integrated 5GHz 802.11ac/n front-end module (FEM) for mobile platforms including smartphones and tablets. The ...
Tags: Skyworks FEM, QFN, Electronics
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: POET, III-V-based electronic, Electronics
Due to the major aggressive expansion plans of some Chinese LED companies, 220 gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactors will be installed in 2015, according to the latest data from the IHS LED ...
Tags: GaN MOCVD LEDs Epistar Sanan OptoElectronics, LED companies, Electronics
Royal Philips has announced that it has signed an agreement with a consortium led by GO Scale Capital through which it will acquire an 80.1% interest in Philips' combined LED components and automotive lighting business, with Philips ...
Tags: automotive lighting, Philips, LED