Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has launched an asymmetric Doherty amplifier enabling ultra-high levels of power efficiency in the ...
Tags: Qorvo, GaN, RF, GaN-on-SiC
Spending on RF high-power semiconductors for the wireless infrastructure markets continues to flatten out in 2017, despite the fact that the overall market hit well over $1.4bn in 2016, according to ABI Research. While certain market and ...
Tags: GaN, High-Power Semiconductor
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched the UltraCMOS PE42525 and PE426525, which are claimed to ...
Spending on RF high-power semiconductors for the wireless infrastructure markets has flattened out this year, despite the fact that the overall market hit well over $1.5bn in 2015, according to ABI Research's report 'RF Power ...
Tags: High-Power Semiconductor, GaN
University of Glasgow and University of Cambridge in the UK have claimed the highest frequency performance to date for gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on low-resistivity (LR) silicon (Si) [A. Eblabla et al, ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has launched a 650W gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon carbide ...
Researchers in Singapore have reported high-frequency performance of gallium nitride (GaN) indium aluminium nitride (InAlN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon substrates, including the first noise measurements [S. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Researchers in Japan and USA have claimed the first experimental demonstration of higher breakdown voltage for slant field-plate (FP) gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) over convention field-plate designs ...
Tags: GaN, HEMTs, Electronics
Spending on RF power semiconductors for the wireless infrastructure markets leapt up again in 2013 to more than $1bn, according to the latest study ‘RF Power Semiconductors’ from ABI Research’s High-Power Active Devices ...
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed conventional aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with record-breaking figures-of-merit (FOMs) for frequency and breakdown performance [Kumud ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
A government and industry team led by engineers from the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX) has completed a program to assess, improve, refine and validate a domestic source of supply ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have used a palladium oxide (PdO) gate interlayer to improve nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) performance [Ray-Ming Lin et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol52, p111002, 2013]. In particular, ...
Tags: HEMT MOCVD GaN, Electrical, Electronics
Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has developed a passivation process for aluminium gallium nitride on gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon substrates that significantly ...
Tags: Nitride HEMTs, Electrical
The UK's University of Manchester has used band engineering on indium phosphide (InP) to create indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistors (pHEMTs) with reduced gate current leakage and high breakdown ...
Tags: Barriers
China-based researchers have reported that country's first diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs) with RF characteristics [Feng ZhiHong et al, Science China Technological Sciences, vol56, p957, 2013]. The team was ...
Tags: Diamond MESFET MESFET Diamond, Electrical, Electronics