Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has received an order for an AIX G5+ C Planetary Reactor metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system from UK-based Plessey Semiconductors to boost its ...
BAE Systems has signed a cooperative agreement with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for Phase 1 of a technical effort to transition gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology developed by the US Air Force to its Advanced ...
Tags: Microwave Products, GaN Technology
The approximately $3bn RF power amplifier market is poised to expand at a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.2% over 2018-2028, as the widening expansion of 5G cellular networks will remain the main driver of RF power amplifier ...
Tags: Power electronics
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has announced a strategic partnership for its own monolithic micro-LED displays – manufactured on its proprietary gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) wafers – to be driven by the ...
Tags: Micro-LED Displays
Murata company pSemi Corp of San Diego, CA, USA (formerly Peregrine Semiconductor Corp) – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has introduced what it clams is ...
Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his team at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a low-cost production technology for thin-film blue flexible vertical ...
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has demonstrated how its monolithic microLED technology can be used to deliver the next-generation of head-up displays (HUDs), enabling new augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) ...
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has launched a series of high-performance IP3 fundamental mixers. The CMD253C3, CMD254C3 and CMD255C3 feature overlapping RF/LO frequencies spanning ...
Tags: integrated circuit, mixers
GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world’s largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced its vision and roadmap for a range of technology ...
Tags: semiconductor, wireless networks
Following development that was partially supported by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is to launch the MGFG5H3001, a Ka-band (26–40GHz) 8W ...
Tags: Power Transmitters, Mitsubishi
Wolfspeed of Raleigh, NC, USA — a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) power products and GaN-on-SiC high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) — has extended its ...
Tags: Wolfspeed, silicon carbide
For second-quarter 2017, POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical ...
Tags: POET Technologies, sensors
DENSO Corp of Kariya, Aichi prefecture, Japan has developed a 24GHz submillimeter-wave rear and side radar sensor to help enhance vehicle safety systems. Using a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) fabricated by specialty foundry ...
Tags: Radar Sensor
The global market for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) reached $426m in 2016, and is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.5% from $539m in 2017 to $1.8bn in 2022, according to BCC Research’s report ...
Tags: Integrated Circuit, PICs
Researchers in Russia claim “the first demonstration of an injection quantum well microdisk laser fabricated of III-V materials monolithically grown on silicon (001) substrate” [N. V. Kryzhanovskaya et al, Optics Express, vol. ...
Tags: silicon photonics, Lasers