Researchers in Taiwan claim to be the first to use bumping technology to create piezoelectric-induced performance enhancement in flip-chip packaged aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Szu-Ping Tsai ...
Diamond Microwave Devices Ltd of Leeds, UK, which was spun out in 2006 from the diamond electronics team of Element Six and specializes in gallium nitride (GaN)-based microwave solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs), is extending its range of ...
Tags: GaN-on-diamond, Diamond Microwave
In booth #1515 at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2014), API Technologies Corp of Orlando, FL, USA, a designer and manufacturer of systems, subsystems, modules and components for RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA has unveiled a new line of UltraCMOS monolithic phase & amplitude controllers (MPAC) for Doherty amplifiers used in wireless base-station transmission. The company presented its devices at ...
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China's Nanjing University has produced silicon carbide (SiC) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with the lowest claimed dark count rate (DCR) at high temperatures of 150°C, compared with any other semiconductor material [Dong Zhou et al, ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has added three new products to its portfolio of discrete mixers. The ...
Tags: MACOM, Plastic Packages
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems) has announced its entry into the monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) market. Building on ...
Tags: Microsemi MMIC, MMIC Market
A suspected Iran-based hacking group known for defacing websites has shown increased ambition over the past few months, targeting U.S. defence contractors and Iranian dissidents, according to a new report from security company FireEye. ...
Tags: Computer Products, IT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has demonstrated gallium nitride (GaN) vertical Schottky and p-n diodes on silicon Si substrates “for the first time” [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
Tags: GaN, MOCVD, Gallium Nitride Diodes
Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has claimed the highest optical 3dB modulation bandwidth of ~463MHz at 50mA for a 500nm-wavelength blue-green indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
Tags: blue-green LEDs, taiwan, LED, LED light, Electrical, Electronics
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA has acquired electrothermal analysis technology from Gradient Design Automation Inc of Palo Alto, CA, which provides HeatWave electrothermal analysis software (used to identify hazards and ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Electrothermal Analysis Technology
GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has claimed a leadership position in point-to-point (PtP) wireless backhaul with ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, components
The 2014 IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Conference & Exposition is coming to the Windy City, bringing a half-century of industry innovation to our biggest and most exciting conference yet. In fact, we were just named one of ...
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Compact Fluorescent Lamps to apply for Energy Star certified reference standards are as follows: ANSI C78.5--1997 Specifications for Performance of Self-Ballasted Compacted Fluorescent Lamps ANSI C78.375--1997 Guide for Electrical ...
Avago Technologies Ltd (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) says that its latest series of MicroPOD and MiniPOD optical modules support 100 Gigabit Ethernet ...
Tags: Optical Modules, Micropod