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
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
ACCO Semiconductor Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a fabless provider of RF front-end components manufactured using standard high-volume bulk CMOS processes for smart-phone and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, has closed a $35m funding ...
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The Semiconductor's business unit of Raytheon UK in Glenrothes, Scotland (a subsidiary of Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA) and Newcastle University's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering have collaborated to produce silicon ...
Tags: Raytheon, Newcastle University, Sic-Based Analog Circuitry
Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched its first products, which are claimed to be the industry's first gallium nitride (GaN) power ICs. Navitas was founded in 2013, and in 2014 investment firm MalibuIQ licensed the ...
Tags: GaN, Power electronics
Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today introduced the BCR420U and BCR421U. These ...
Tags: Diodes, LED strips, decorative lighting
The photonic integrated circuit (PIC) market was $0.19bn in 2013 and is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.3% from 2015 to $1.3bn in 2022, according to the new market report 'Photonic IC Market - Global ...
Technische Universit Wien (TU Wien) in Austria has improved its bi-functional 6.8μm quantum cascade laser and detector (QCLD) technology [Benedikt Schwarz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p071104, 2015]. It is hoped that monolithic ...
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA has begun supplying Silent Falcon UAS Technologies (SFUAS) of Albuquerque, NM, USA with lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules for the ...
Fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a-chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA has launched what is claimed to be an industry-first 100G-CWDM system-on-chip fully integrated optoelectronic S-roC receiver IC ...
Tags: silicon photonics, receiver, transmitter
Murata Electronics North America Inc (a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan) and Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA have celebrated the closing of Murata’s acquisition of Peregrine. To ...
Murata Electronics North America Inc, a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan has acquired all outstanding shares of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA for $12.50 per share. Peregrine will continue to ...
Beyond all of the hype and tumult, market drivers and technological developments are converging to ensure a bright future for silicon photonics, according to the ‘Silicon Photonics 2014’ report from Yole Développement. ...
Tags: Silicon Photonics
IBM Research's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Northwestern University have developed a technique to grow hexagonal- and cubic-phase gallium nitride (h-/c-GaN) on standard (100) silicon (Si) [Can Bayram et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., ...