Jing Zhang, a faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, has received a CAREER award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for work to develop new, highly efficient ultraviolet light sources. Zhang’s NSF award of ...
Tags: UV LEDs, UV Photonics
Fisher Container, a provider of custom flexible packaging for food and healthcare industries, has re-branded its subsidiaries Fisher Container, and Packaging Products (PPC) into the new entity PPC Flexible Packaging. The comprehensive ...
Fisher Container has rebranded its subsidiaries Fisher Container, LLC and Packaging Products Corporation (PPC) into a new firm, PPC Flexible Packaging. The company’s rebranding follows the acquisition of PPC in June 2017. Fisher ...
The global market for radio-frequency (RF) power semiconductor devices – spanning silicon (LDMOS), gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) – will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% during ...
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The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has demonstrated the ability to grow thin films of the transition-metal nitride Nb2N (niobium nitride). The thin crystalline material has a similar structure to gallium nitride (GaN), but its ...
Tags: Thin-Film Niobium Nitride, LED
SENTECH Instruments GmbH of Berlin, Germany says that the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (CNR-IMM) in Catania – which is part of the Physics and Matter Technologies Department (DSFTM) of the National Research Council ...
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Jing Zhang, an engineering faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, has received a $305,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire an inductively coupled plasma reactive-ion etching (ICP-RIE) system for ...
Tags: RIT, NSF, ICP-RIE system
Micro-assembly equipment maker Finetech of Berlin, Germany says that a Lambda bonding system has been installed in the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The sub-micron accuracy bonder is ...
Tags: LED, packaging equipment
Researchers in Canada claim the highest reported optical-to-electric power conversion of more than 65% (Figure 1) for a 150W/cm2 (~1500 suns) tuned narrow spectrum input from high-powered laser diodes [S. Fafard et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Electronic hardware and software design solutions provider Mentor Graphics Corp of Wilsonville, OR, USA says that Xiamen San'an Integrated Circuit Co Ltd (San'an IC) of Xiamen Torch High-tech Industrial Development Zone, China has selected ...
Tags: San'an, Mentor Graphics, GaAs
At SID's Display Week 2015 event in San Jose, CA, USA (31 May-5 June), Grenoble-based micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of France announced that it has demonstrated a path to fabricating high-density micro-LED arrays for the next ...
Tags: Leti III-V lab microLED, Electrical, Electronics, LED
Fort Worth, Tex.TTI, Inc., the leading authorized distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical and discrete components, today announced the company has signed a distribution agreement with API Technologies for its RF, Microwave ...
Tags: API, discrete components, Electronics
Researchers at Ghent University and nanoelectronics R&D center Imec of Leuven, Belgium have demonstrated interaction between light and sound in a nanoscale area using a silicon photonic nanowire (R. Van Laer et al, Nature Photonics (2015); ...
Some Taiwan-based IC design houses have said that their sales will remain brisk in the first quarter of 2015 despite seasonal effects, due to replenishment orders from the supply chain and the roll-outs of new end-market devices prior to ...
Tags: IC Design Houses, USB chip
At a ceremony on 23 October at Mercure Holland House Hotel in Cardiff (organized by UK-based business publisher Insider Media Ltd), plasma etch, deposition and thermal wafer processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, ...
Tags: SPTS, Green Manufacturer Prize