Hong Kong-based Shunfeng International Clean Energy Ltd (SFCE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to acquire a 51% ownership stake in Lattice Power Corp of Nanchang, China, which claims to have been the first company to realise ...
Tags: silicon LEDs, LED lighting
Researchers at University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA have claimed record high breakdown voltage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) lateral Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on silicon [Mingda Zhu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
Tags: silicon diodes, GaN substrates
At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and provides gallium nitride-based power conversion ...
Tags: Transphorm, APEC, Electronics
At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has announced the expansion of its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon technology ...
Tags: Evatec Sputtering, PVD, Electronics
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching transistors based on its proprietary Island Technology for power conversion and control applications, has announced new top-side ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Power electronics, Electronics
Following the acquisition in December of the semiconductor & nanotechnology business of Oerlikon's Advanced Technologies Segment, Evatec Ltd of Flums, Switzerland (which makes thin-film deposition and etch processing equipment for ...
Tags: Evatec, PVD, Electronics
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 introduced the EPC9115, a ...
Tags: EPC, DC-DC converter, Electronics
To provide an easy-to-use way for power systems designers to evaluate the performance of gallium nitride transistors and get their products into volume production quickly, Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which ...
Tags: EPC, FETs, Electronics
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has appointed Ann Reo as senior VP of product development. Reo has more than 20 years of ...
Tags: Soraa, engine design, Electronics
SAGE SatCom of San Diego, CA, USA (part of telecoms solutions provider REMEC Broadband Wireless), which provides compact Ka-band block up-converter (BUC) and transceiver solutions, is now shipping its high-power 20 watt linear Ka-band BUC ...
Tags: GaN, M&C, Electronics
Researchers in Europe have developed a low-temperature plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE) process for direct growth of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) on silicon (Si) substrates [Pavel Aseev et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has launched a 650W gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon carbide ...
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets) has entered into a definitive ...
Tags: Microsemi, Vitesse, Electronics
Professor Martin Kuball of the University of Bristol's School of Physics in the UK is one of 19 people to receive the UK Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK's Department for ...
Tags: Wolfson, devices, Electronics
At the 30th IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2015) in Charlotte, NC, USA (15-19 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and provides gallium nitride-based power conversion ...
Tags: APEC 2015, GaN Power Devices