Wide-bandgap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) offer far higher performance than traditional silicon but cost significantly more. However, by 2020 GaN costs will drop enough for it to become competitive based on ...
Tags: Bulk GaN, traditional silicon, gallium nitride, reckons market
GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks)says it has experimentally demonstrated the ...
Tags: GigOptix, modulator co-packaged, San Jose, CA, POLYSYS EU Program
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd of Vilnius, Lithuania officially opened its new MBE and laser diode production facility on December 5. Established by brothers Augustinas Vizbaras, Kristijonas Vizbaras and Dominykas Vizbaras in 2011, the firm ...
Tags: Brolis, Lithuania, MBE, laser diode, production facility
Taiwan’s Union Optronics Corp (UOC) has purchased an AIX 2600G3 planetary reactor from Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany, to expand production of gallium arsenide (GaAs) based laser diodes. Purchased in Q2/2012 and due for delivery ...
Tags: laser diode, diodes, Metal Organic Chemical, laser production
South Africa-based Africa Stereos has chosen a new Screen PlateRite FX1524 platesetter, installed and commissioned by Kemtek Print Solutions. Africa Stereos MD Sean Drake said the new Screen PlateRite system gives them more leverage in ...
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd of Vilnius, Lithuania is to launch a new facility on 5 December 2012. Established by brothers Augustinas Vizbaras, Kristijonas Vizbaras and Dominykas Vizbaras in 2011, the firm specializes in mid-infrared type-I ...
Tags: MBE Epitaxial wafers, Laser diodes, Brolis Semiconductors
AIXTRON SE today announced the sale of an AIX 2600G3 Planetary Reactor to Union Optronics Corp. (UOC) to expand production of gallium arsenide based laser diodes. The system is capable of handling 49x2-inch wafers in each run. The purchase ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors launches direct emitting green laser diodes Osram Opto Semiconductors now offers its first direct green diode lasers. The two compact laser diodes have an optical output of 30 and 50 milliwatts and a particularly ...
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18 October 2012 Osram Opto launches direct-emitting green laser diodes Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg,Germany says that it is now offering its first direct-emitting green diode lasers.The two compact indium gallium ...
Increasing brightness capability has seen coloured LEDs move into applications that were previously the domain of filtered incandescent light. Perhaps the most obvious example is in car rear light clusters where red-emitting LEDs ...
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The Institute of Physics(IoP)is to celebrate 50 years of the laser diode at the University of Warwick later this month. "In October 1962,four papers were submitted for publication reporting the realisation of the first lasers operating in ...
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Innolume GmbH of Dortmund,Germany,which manufactures quantum-dot(QD)diode lasers covering the 1064–1320nm spectrum,has launched the next generation of its LD-12XX-series laser diode. While keeping output characteristics the ...
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Developer of"black silicon"laser texturing process for imaging and PV applications signs deal with In-Q-Tel. Laser-textured"black"silicon In-Q-Tel(IQT),the technology venture wing of the US Central Intelligence Agency(CIA),has ...
Tags: Black Silicon, Short-Wave, Sensor, Imaging Systems
Semiconductor and MEMS giant aims to integrate video-sharing devices within smart phones and laptops. Projector phone:Samsung's Galaxy Beam Swiss-headquartered STMicroelectronics,rated as the world's leading maker of ...
Tags: ST, bTendo, STMicroelectronics, smart phones, laptop
22 June 2012 Sumitomo and Sony claim first 100mW true-green 530nm laser diode Tokyo-based compound semiconductor materials provider Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd(SEI)and Sony Corp say that,by using a semi-polar gallium ...
Tags: laser diode, GaN substrate, semiconductor materials provider, SEI