July 30, 2010 - Industry News
Teledyne completes acquisition of Intelek
Teledyne Technologies Inc of Thousand Oaks, CA, USA has completed its acquisition of Intelek plc of Swindon, UK. Intelek's ordinary shareholders ...
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July 29, 2010 - Industry News
Taiwan's LED production to surge 43% in 2010
With the growing popularity of LED-backlit LCD TVs fueling sales growth, the production value of Taiwan's LED industry is forecast to soar ...
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July 28, 2010 - Industry News
Stanford buys Plasma-Therm deposition systems for Nanofab Facility
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC says that Stanford University has recently placed an order for two deposition tools to be ...
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July 23, 2010 - Industry News
First direct bonding of SiC–Si and GaN–Si at room temperature
Tokyo-based machinery manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) claims that it has achieved the world’s first direct bonding of silicon ...
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July 21, 2010 - Industry News
Quantum wells with AlGaN barriers increases laser light output
Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have reported improved 516nm 'green' laser diode performance from using ...
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June 22, 2010 - Industry News
Solar nanowire research targets 65% efficiency
Researchers at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), Philips and Philips’ MiPlaza research service company hope to achieve 65% efficient ...
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June 17, 2010 - Technology News
Low threshold for m-plane nitride semiconductor lasing
Threshold currents for aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) cladding-free m-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) have been ...
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June 16, 2010 - Technology News
Deep UV LED efficiency reaches 3% w/ moth-eye sapphire substrates
Researchers based in Nagoya, Japan have reported deep ultraviolet LEDs with external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) of up to 3%. The output power ...
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June 7, 2010 - Technology News
True green laser light from c-plane nitride semiconductors
Osram Opto-Semiconductors of Regensburg, Germany has reported 'true green' (520-570nm) laser diodes (LDs) on traditional c-plane free-standing ...
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May 24, 2010 - Technology News
GCS announces THz diode foundry process for mm-wave transceivers
Pure-play III-V compound semiconductor wafer foundry Global Communication Semiconductors Inc (GCS) of Torrance, CA, USA says that its proprietary ...
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May 19, 2010 - Technology News
Prospects for full visible coverage from one nitride substrate
Building on their previous suggestion for ternary indium gallium nitride (InGaN) substrates for producing devices emitting a wide range of ...
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May 3, 2010 - Industry News
Defense to remain driver in $376m GaN microelectronics market
The US defense industry will continue to provide the key applications for GaN microelectronics, as the emerging technology sector moves into a ...
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April 9, 2010 - Industry News
LED industry entering fast growth stage in 2010
Driven by applications like LED-backlit TVs and solid-state lighting, expansion in LED manufacturing and new facility projects have ...
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April 2, 2010 - Technology News
Nichia achieves 2.78% external quantum efficiency for 281nm UV-LED
Japan's Nichia Corp has added its results to the recent wave of published deep ultraviolet (DUV) LED research. Using an aluminum nitride (AlN) on ...
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April 2, 2010 - Technology News
Capacity of InGaAs to increase drive current in nano MOSFETs
Many in the semiconductor industry and the supporting research community are seeking to apply compound semiconductor materials to improve metal ...
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March 26, 2010 - Industry News
TSMC breaks ground on LED fab
The world's largest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) of Hsinchu, Taiwan has held a groundbreaking ...
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March 24, 2010 - Industry News
Nanosolar appoints AMD and Rambus veteran Tate as CEO
Nanosolar Inc of San Jose, CA has named Geoff Tate as CEO, replacing co-founder Martin Roscheisen. From 1990 through 2005, Tate was previously ...
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March 24, 2010 - Industry News
Tegal sells thin-film etch and PVD assets to OEM Group
Tegal Corp of Petaluma, CA has sold its legacy thin-film etch and physical vapor deposition (PVD) product lines to OEM Group Inc of Gilbert ...
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March 15, 2010 - Industry News
Taiwan's Epistar entering mainland China LED manufacturing
LED epiwafer- and chip-maker Epistar Corp is teaming with fellow Taiwan-based firms Lite-On Technology Corp (which packages LEDs) and silicon ...
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March 2, 2010 - Technology News
Tyndall claims first junctionless transistor
Researchers at Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland led by professor Jean-Pierre Colinge have reported in Nature Nanotechnology how ...
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February 16, 2010 - Technology News
Deep ultraviolet power boost at shorter wavelengths
Researchers at Sensor Electronic Technology (SET) of Columbia, SC, USA have achieved a record 2mW of light output power in light-emitting ...
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February 9, 2010 - Technology News
Application-oriented quantum theory for infrared nitride lasers?
Recently, nitride semiconductor lasers have extended their wavelength reach into the green part of the visible spectrum (emitting at about ...
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January 28, 2010 - Technology News
Creating optical memories from whispers in InP disk lasers on SOI
Photonics researchers have used heterogeneous integration of indium phosphide (InP) onto silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers to create an all ...
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December 29, 2009 - Industry News
Epiwafer foundry VPEC aims to ramp capacity 40-60% in 2010
Taiwanese pure-play epiwafer foundry Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co Ltd (VPEC) is planning to ramp its capacity by 40-60% in 2010 in a bid to ...
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November 30, 2009 - Technology News
Fuji Electric smoothes way to silicon carbide power transistors
Japan’s Fuji Electric Device Technology has been researching the digging of U-shape trenches in silicon carbide (SiC) with a view to next- ...
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