Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK says that it has enhanced wafer inspection capabilities at its Cardiff facility by acquiring a new automated wafer inspection tool supplied by Nanotronics Imaging LLC of ...
Tags: IQE, Nanotronics, Inspection, Microscopy
Following opening of the competition last Autumn and closing for applications in December,the'Technology Inspired Innovation'competition for collaborative research&development funding in the UK has now resulted in 43 projects being chosen ...
Tags: UK funds, compound semiconductor, Photonics and Electrical Systems
5 June 2012 IQE acquires RFMD's MBE unit and secures seven-year wafer supply agreement Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has signed what is described as a multi-faceted agreement to acquire the entire ...
Tags: IQE, RFMD MBE, GaAs, wireless semiconductor industry
4 June 2012 Handset RF device market to grow from$3.8bn to$5bn in 2016 As handset RF front ends(containing gallium arsenide)are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the 4G era,they cost$9-11 for 4G devices,which is twice that for 3G and ...
Venture-backed developer of high-efficiency,multi-junction cells signs agreement with concentrated PV specialist SolFocus. SolFocus,the US-based company at the forefront of concentrated photovoltaics(CPV)systems that generate ...
Tags: Solar, SolFocus, "SUNPATH"Program
Solar Junction of San Jose,CA,USA,a manufacturer of III-V multi-junction solar cells based on proprietary adjustable-spectrum lattice-matched(A-SLAM)materials for concentrated photovoltaics(CPV),has announced an agreement with CPV system ...
Tags: 5MW CPV cell order, solar cell, SolFocus, investment, Solar Junction
This industry beating result was achieved under the DARPA Compact Mid-Ultraviolet Technology(CMUVT)program and in collaboration with Army Research Laboratories(ARL). This latest development from the world's leading supplier of UV LEDs ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has appointed Eliot Parkinson as general manager of its III-V facility in Cardiff. Parkinson takes over from Adrian Meldrum, who has been acting as interim general ...
Tags: facility, director, manufacturing
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
Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc (SETi) of Columbia, South Carolina USA, announced record efficiencies of UV LEDs operating in the germicidal UV-C range of 11% external quantum efficiency (EQE) with a corresponding wall-plug efficiency ...
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After two years of explosive revenue growth, the LED market appears to be slowing down in 2012. The Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service (GaAs) viewpoint, “Compound Semiconductor Industry Review ...
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After two years of explosive revenue growth, the LED market appears to be slowing down in 2012. The Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service (GaAs) viewpoint, “Compound Semiconductor Industry Review ...
Tags: Industry Trends, led market