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Silvaco and Purdue to Co-Develop Scalable Atomistic TCAD for Next-Generation Devices and Materials
Aug 27, 2018Silvaco Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA (which provides electronic design automation and IP software tools for process and device development), Purdue University and Purdue Research Foundation have formed a partnership to extend Moore’s ...
Tags: TCAD tools
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LED Technology Breakthroughs in 2016
Dec 31, 2016As 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 ...
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NCSU's SiC-Based Inverter Achieves 12.1kW/L, Close to DOE's Target of 13.4kW/L by 2020
Sep 20, 2016Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have used off-the-shelf silicon carbide (SiC)-based components to develop an inverter with ...
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Seoul Semiconductor Sues Retailer Kmart for Patent Infringement
Sep 20, 2016South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd (SSC), together with its affiliate company Seoul Viosys Co Ltd, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of California against global retail ...
Tags: SSC, Seoul Viosys, Kmart
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NSF Grants $2m to Project to Fabricate Chip-Scale Integrated Sic Quantum Photonic Processors
Aug 12, 2016Under a four-year, $2m grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Qiang Lin, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the University of Rochester's Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, will lead a ...
Tags: SiC Quantum computing
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UCSB Professor and Integrated Photonics Expert John Bowers Receives 2017 IEEE Photonics Award
Aug 8, 2016John Bowers, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been selected to receive the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics ...
Tags: Integrated Photonics, PICs
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UIUC Uses MOCVD Growth of Cubic GaN on Silicon to Boost Efficiency and Brightness of Green LEDs
Aug 3, 2016Researchers 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
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University of Utah's Stringfellow Receives International Organization for Crystal Growth's Frank Prize
Aug 1, 2016In a ceremony in Nagoya, Japan on 8 August, Gerald Stringfellow, who is a Distinguished Professor in the University of Utah's departments of materials science & engineering and electrical & computer engineering (and dean of the College of ...
Tags: LEDs, LED crystals
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Purdue Develops SOI CMOS Power Amplifier for 5G Cell Phones and Next-Generation Radar
May 20, 2016A new highly efficient power amplifier (PA) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS could help to make possible next-generation cell phones, low-cost collision-avoidance radar for cars and lightweight microsatellites for communications, ...
Tags: Power Amplifier, Cell Phones
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Building Components for GaN Power Switches
Dec 18, 2015A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
Tags: GaN p-n junction diodes, GaN Power Switches, solid-state lighting
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Researchers Find New Nanastructure Design to Improve LEDs and Solar Cell Efficiency
Dec 15, 2015Light and electricity dance a complicated tango in devices like LEDs, solar cells and sensors. A new anti-reflection coating developed by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, in collaboration with researchers at the ...
Tags: anti-reflection coating, electronic device, semiconductor
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Digital Lumens Aims to Accelerate Expansion of Lighting and Energy Management Solutions
Mar 30, 2015Digital Lumens announced strategic expansions to its team, with Kaynam Hedayat joining as Vice President of Product Management, and Jason Hanna as Director of Software Products. These new executives will help Digital Lumens expand its ...
Tags: market share, Computer Engineering, Lights
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Daniel Feezell Received a $500,000 US NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award
Jan 23, 2015Daniel Feezell, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a $500,000 US National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, ...
Tags: gallium nitride, Electrical
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Curtin Researchers Have Helped Create Technology to Make an Autonomous Car
Nov 4, 2014Curtin researchers have helped create technology that will make an autonomous car affordable to the average-income person within a decade. The ‘eyes and ears’ technology comprises a dozen different sensors installed in an ...
Tags: Autonomous Car
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Aaron Franklin joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sep 12, 2014Aaron Franklin has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry. Leaving IBM's research enterprise for a ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
