Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA claims the first demonstration of 1kV-class aluminium nitride (AlN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Houqiang Fu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 5 July 2017]. AlN has a wide bandgap of 6.2eV. ...
Tags: semiconductor, MOCVD
As 2016 comes to an end, there were many exciting and surprising technology breakthroughs, based on statistics complied by LEDinside there were at least 10 major technology advancements this year. American researchers make droop free LEDs ...
A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a gate length (the defining dimension of a transistor) just 1nm long, ...
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 10-nanometer (nm) class* , 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 (double-data-rate-4) DRAM chips and ...
Tags: Samsung, 10nm-class DRAM, DDR4
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has developed a monolithic white light-emitting diode (LED) with blue light produced by electrical pumping, and green/'red' by optical pumping from the blue source [S. J. Kowsz et al, ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) say that they have developed a new method for making brighter and more efficient green LEDs (R. Liu and C. Bayram, 'Maximizing cubic phase gallium nitride surface coverage ...
Tags: Green LEDs, MOCVD
Osaka University in Japan has developed a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) process for the growth of gallium nitride (GaN) in a sodium (Na) flux with a small amount of carbon (C) that, with the addition of lithium (Li) and gallium, can also be ...
Researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) are proposing using III-nitride and silicon carbide (SiC) hybrid technologies for high-voltage power devices [Jin Wei et al, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol63, ...
Researchers based in Taiwan and USA have increased the modulation bandwidth of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jin-Wei Shi, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 26 May 2016]. The enhanced bandwidth was ...
Xidian University in China has used pulsed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to increase indium gallium nitride (InGaN) room-temperature channel mobility to 1681cm2/V-s, which is claimed to be a record [Yachao Zhang et al, ...
Researchers in Hong Kong and China have claimed the first demonstration of gallium nitirde (GaN) fully vertical p-type-intrinsic-n-type (p-i-n) junction diodes on silicon (Si) [Xinbo Zou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
Tags: GaN devices, Silicon Substrate
Researchers based in China, Singapore and Turkey have used an extremely thin layer of silicon dioxide (SiO2) insulator as a charge inverter in indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), improving light output power and ...
AlGaN/GaN and InAlN/GaN structures combine high electron mobility and high critical electric field strength and are excellent platforms for the production of next-generation RF and power electronics devices such as high-electron-mobility ...
Tags: LayTec, Metrology MOCVD, AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
Over the last decade, advances in the technology of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, have helped to improve the performance of devices ranging from television and computer screens to flashlights. As the uses for LEDs expand, scientists ...
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Japan's Panasonic Corp has reported the suppression of current collapse up to 800V for a normally-off gallium nitride (GaN) transistor by embedding a hybrid drain in a gate-injection transistor (HD-GIT) structure [Kenichiro Tanaka et al, ...
Tags: Panasonic, GaN transistor, AlGaN