Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Global Research Center in the USA "experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, bi-directional 4H-silicon carbide planar gate, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) fabricated on ...
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Aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) buffer layers with high aluminium content are necessary for optimal UV-C LED performance. But their band-edge lies below 300nm, so established 405nm in-situ reflectance is insensitive to the surface ...
Ghent University/IMEC in Belgium and X-Celeprint in Ireland/USA claim "the first III-V optoelectronic components transfer printed on and coupled to a silicon photonic integrated circuit" [Andreas De Groote et al, Optics Express, vol24, ...
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added two new gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC BroadRange distributed amplifiers to its portfolio, for applications for including military/commercial ...
Tags: Custom MMIC, GaAs, monolithic microwave
In-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that, following the request of customers and utilizing the modular concept of its new Gen3 in-situ platform, it has customized and expanded the related in-situ metrology ...
Increased global demand for hybrid electric all wheel drive has helped GKN Driveline's electric axle achieve landmark production figure of 300,000 units. The units of the industry's most successful eAxle range have now come off the ...
The prestigious brand Tous Perfumes, international referent in jewelry and perfumery, has selected Pujolasos wood & pack for the production of its new and exclusive fragrance, specifically the luxurious ash wooden caps that shows the new ...
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Researchers in Hong Kong and USA have been working on producing optically pumped micro-disk lasers on exact (001) silicon [Yating Wan et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol108, p221101, 2016]. The team from Hong Kong University of Science and ...
Compared with the value for May 2015, the Volkswagen Group grew deliveries to customers by 1.6 percent in May 2016 – throughout the world, a total of 871,500 vehicles were handed over to customers. In the period to May, 4.2 million ...
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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 ...
AppDynamics Inc of San Francisco, CA, USA says that Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications) has chosen its ...
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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, ...
Sophia University in Japan has developed a technique for growing laser diodes on an indium phosphide (InP) layer bonded to silicon (Si) [Keiichi Matsumoto et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol9, p062701, 2016]. The researchers claim that this is ...
Tags: Laser Diodes, Si Substrates
A May 25 Bloomberg report said that Chinese officials plan to ask their American counterparts during the upcoming eighth round of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue about the chance of a Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate ...