When people think about wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials for power electronics applications, they usually think of gallium nitride (GaN) or silicon carbide (SiC) – which is not surprising, since SiC and GaN are currently the ...
Tags: Power Electronics, semiconductor, LED
Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan says that it has developed gallium nitride (GaN) diodes that can not only operate at a high current of 7.6kA/cm2 - four times greater than that tolerated by conventional silicon carbide (SiC) diodes with a ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) together with analog foundry ...
Tags: Panasonic, CMOS, Semiconductor, wireless communication, automotive radar
Metrology and inspection equipment maker Lasertec Corp of Yokohama, Japan has launched SICA88, the latest model of its SiC wafer inspection and review systems. Featuring both surface and photoluminescence (PL) inspection capabilities, ...
Tags: Lasertec, SiC Wafers
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, is displaying its new GS66540C 650V 100A high-current GaN power ...
In booth 1 (level 0) at the 17th Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'15 - ECCE Europe) hosted by CERN in Geneva, Swizerland (8–10 September), GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium ...
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 now shipped more than 1 million gallium nitride on ...
New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that GE Global Research Center of Niskayuna, NY, USA will expand its New York global operations to the Mohawk Valley, serving as the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization ...
Tags: SiC Power Electronics, packaging
The global gallium nitride (GaN) industrial devices market is rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.1% from $481.8m in 2014 to $1315m in 2021, forecasts Transparency Market Research in its report 'GaN Industrial Devices ...
Tags: industrial devices, LED devices
HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA, which manufactures aluminium nitride (AlN) substrates and is developing long-life UV-C LEDs and high-voltage power devices, has signed a broad, strategic agreement with Okaya & Co Ltd of Nagoya, Japan, ...
Tags: UV-C LED, LED products
According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
Tags: SiC Market, power electronics
SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (which is owned by Israeli firm Orbotech) has sold its Thermal Products business to SPP Technologies Co Ltd (SPT), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Precision Products Co Ltd (SPP) that specializes in the ...
Tags: SPTS Thermal processing systems, SPP technologies, semiconductor
UK-based SPTS Technologies has sold its Thermal Products operations to Sumitomo Precision Products’ arm SPP Technologies, in a deal worth $28m. SPP is engaged in the production of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and ...
Tags: SPTS technologies, thermal products, MEMS, LED
Exagan of Grenoble, France, a gallium nitride (GaN) technology start-up that enables smaller and more efficient electrical converters, has raised €5.7m in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN switching device
Japan's Rohm Co Ltd has started mass production of what it claims is the first silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a trench structure (where the gate is formed on the sidewall of a groove in ...