In booth 505 at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 in Orlando,FL(17-19 October),broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren,NJ,USA is launching the ACA2428 gallium nitride(GaN)line amplifier MMIC. ...
Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp(IR)of El Segundo,CA,USA has appointed Gary Tanner as executive VP&chief operations officer,effective 2 January 2013. Tanner will be responsible for the continued implementation ...
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Large-scale adoption of retrofit LED lamps are forecasted to lead to $100 billion in global energy savings over the next five years, according to a recent report from IMS Research entitled, "Opportunities for Power Components in LED ...
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Researchers in China have developed a low-cost, high-throughput photonic crystal (PhC) process for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Tongbo Wei et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p211111, 2012]. The process used ...
Tags: Nanospheres GaN LEDs MOCVD, LEDs
Epistar,the Taiwan-based company that is ranked as one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs,has become the latest major producer to hint at a transfer to a potentially much cheaper silicon platform. Currently the ...
In booth#2324 at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 in Orlando,FL(17-19 October),RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro,NC,USA is showcasing its portfolio of wired broadband components. The components leverage the firm's ...
Semiconductor of Phoenix,AZ,USA,which supplies silicon-based power and signal management,logic,discrete and custom devices for energy-efficient electronics,has joined the multi-partner,industrial R&D program at nanoelectronics research ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has received its first purchase order for a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) CRIUS MOCVD system from Dynax Semiconductor Inc of China. Aixtron says it will be the first system in ...
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BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that it has received commitments totalling A$2.35m (US$2.45m) for a placement of new fully paid ordinary shares to institutional investors. When the placement is settled later this week, ...
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The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month.Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager at Verbatim,describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes(LEDs)have become an ...
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Transphorm raises$35m in Series-E financing LED by Japan's INCJ Transphorm Inc of Goleta,near Santa Barbara,CA,USA(which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules)has announced a$35m Series E financing round led by ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, is sponsoring the lighting industry's first PlugFest in conjunction with the Illuminating ...
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Researchers from Japan and the USA have reported the first fabrication on hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) aluminium nitride (AlN) substrates of aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit at the ...
Tags: DUV, LEDs, AlGaN, AlN substrates, HVPE, light-emitting diodes
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that its new RFHA104x series of high-power gallium nitride (GaN) broadband power transistors (BPTs) are optimized for military communications, commercial wireless infrastructure, and ...
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For third-quarter 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported net sales of $28.6m, down 23.1% on $37.3m a year ago but up 14.1% on $25.1m last quarter. ...
Tags: wireless ainfrastructure, CATV infrastructure, wireline communications