GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada,which is a fabless provider of gallium nitride(GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications,and UK-based Converter Technology Ltd,which provides design ...
Power electronics device market to reach $20bn this year The total market for semiconductor devices (discretes, modules and ICs) dedicated to the power electronics industry will reach $20bn in 2012, according to the report 'Status of the ...
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The Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor device market is expected to reach $12.6m by the end of 2012, and the phenomenal growth rate of 60-80% year-on-year is expected to continue in subsequent years, according to the report ‘Gallium ...
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Power+Energy Inc(P+E)of Ivyland,PA,USA has provided a 9000MS Series hydrogen purifier to SemiSouth Laboratories Inc of Starkville,MS,USA,which designs and manufactures silicon carbide(SiC)devices for ...
Tags: SemiSouth, Power+Energy, Hydrogen purifiers, SiC epi, semiconductor, MOCVD
High-reliability must be combined with low power design for space systems which is why choice of an IP processor core can be critical,writes Chris RobertsChips used in space,cars and medical devices face some of the harshest operating ...
Tags: Low Power Processor, Spacecraft, electronic systems, IP processor
The Institute of Microelectronics(IME),a research institute of Singapore's Agency for Science,Technology and Research(A*STAR),has announced a collaboration with global power systems company Rolls-Royce for R&D on advanced power electronics ...
Tags: GaN-Based, Electronics, Power
Singapore and Hong Kong researchers have developed a gold-free CMOS-compatible process for nitride semiconductor metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors(MOS-HEMTs)[Xinke Liu et ...
Tags: Nitride MOS-HEMTs MOCVD, MOS-HEMTs, AlGaN
4 June 2012 Cascade launches first fully automatic high-power device measurement probe system Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton,OR,USA,which provides equipment for the precision contact,electrical measurement and test of ICs,optical ...
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A little bit of semiconductor magic made a lot of difference to RF power amplifiers,and looks like it will do the same for mains PSUs. That magic is the'two-dimensional electron gas'that forms between layers in certain semiconductor ...
Tags: GaN, semiconductor, RF power amplifiers, GaAs, SiC, PSU, JFET
Researchers in China based at State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies,Sun Yat-Sen University,have demonstrated a selective area growth(SAG)method for recessing gates in aluminium gallium nitride(AlGaN)semiconductor ...
''Gallium nitride power transistors are poised to move out of the labs and into mains PSUs and motor drives,'' was one message from the PCIM power show in Nuremberg this month. ''Only if the price drops and designers can bear the ...
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RWTH Aachen University and Aixtron SE in Germany have developed a new technique to create aluminium oxide insulated gates for nitride semiconductor transistors[Herwig Hahn et al,Semicond.Sci.Technol.,vol27,p062001,2012].The method consists ...
Tags: Plasma oxidation, RWTH Aachen University, Aixtron SE, GaN
NGK Insulators, Ltd. claims has to have developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that double luminous efficiency of a LED light source compared to conventional materials. NGK says that its GaN wafers created with its original liquid phase ...
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NGK Insulators, Ltd. claims has to have developed gallium nitride (GaN) wafers that double luminous efficiency of a LED light source compared to conventional materials. NGK says that its GaN wafers created with its original liquid phase ...
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Researchers at Ukraine's Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics have been studying current crowding and electrical efficiency degradation in vertical indium gallium nitride(InGaN)light-emitting diodes(LEDs)made from material grown on ...
Tags: Vertical InGaN/SiC LEDs, SiC substrates, massive heat sink