Researchers in the USA have developed radio frequency switches based on nitride semiconductor voltage-controlled capacitors (varactors) [F. Jahan et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 9 January 2013]. The team, consisting of engineers from ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that OVH will deploy the Infinera DTN-X ...
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Toyota has announced the recall of more than one million cars in the US as part of a global recall of almost 1.3 million vehicles, in what is the Japanese manufacturer’s third million-car-plus recall since October. The recall of ...
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Japan-based automaker Toyota has recalled about one million vehicles in two different recalls over the defective air bags and improper wipers in the US. The recall has been made for 752,000 units of Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles ...
Rubicon Technology has shipped totally 400,000 large diameter sapphire wafers to LED and SoS/RFIC manufacturers. Sapphire is a key building block for LEDs used in HDTVs, laptops, smart phones and tablets. Another significant market for ...
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LED lighting system costs can be reduced with good control circuit design and component selection, writes Fabrizio Petris from Omron Ellectronic Components Europe More and more buildings are installing low-power lighting in the ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced the first successful demonstration ...
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Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA has announced that co-founder Eric Lidow passed away on 18 January. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then part of Russia) over 100 years ago in 1912, ...
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips. The ...
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Many companies who manufacture electronics require contingency plans for their products. If a memory device is discontinued, we switch to a competing device. If our circuit board supplier goes bankrupt, we have an alternate vendor on speed ...
In the year of 2012, in face of the increasingly complicated and severe international situation and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Central Party Committee and the State Council took scientific development ...
The US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA will spend $194m in the next five years under the STARnet initiative to fund six university microelectronics research projects. C-FAR at University of Michigan: Research future ...
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has launched a new generation of industrial-temperature silicon carbide (SiC) standard power modules, ...
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, says that its CMOS RF (radiofFrequency) front-end ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that RFMD fellow Kevin W. Kobayashi has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers by the IEEE board of directors. The IEEE grade of fellow was conferred ...
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