Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has launched the Lumina metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) platform, which incorporates the proprietary TurboDisc reactor...
Filtronic Ltd of Leeds, UK, which designs and manufactures RF, microwave and millimeter-wave (mmWave) products for the wireless telecoms, mission-critical communications and defence applications markets, has launched Morpheus II, its new...
Diamond Microwave Ltd (DML) of Shipley, UK says that it has a new shareholder in the form of TMD Technologies Ltd of Hayes, West London, which designs and manufactures transmitters, amplifiers, microwave power modules (MPMs),...
In booth #1514 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2020) in New Orleans (15-19 March), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA — which designs and manufactures JEDEC- and AEC-Q101-qualified 650V and 900V...
Compound Photonics US Corp (CP) of Vancouver, WA, USA, a provider of compact high-resolution microdisplay technologies for augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) applications, and UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd, which...
Keysight Technologies Inc of Santa Rosa, CA, USA, the National Information Optoelectronics Innovation Center (NOIEC) in Wuhan China Optics Valley and Singapore-based silicon photonic (SiPh) foundry services provider CompoundTek Pte Ltd...
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides mixed-signal products for the aerospace & defense and broadband communications markets – says it has completed the sale and leaseback transaction of its property in Concord, CA (announced...
For its fiscal first-quarter 2020 (to end-December 2019), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides mixed-signal products for the aerospace & defense and broadband communications markets – has reported revenue of $25.5m, up 5% on...
Anokiwave Inc of San Diego, CA, USA – which provides highly integrated silicon core chips and III-V front-end integrated circuits for millimeter-wave (mmW) markets and active antenna-based solutions – has expanded its San Diego...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has announced that it is supporting next-generation wireless technologies set forth by Wi-Fi Alliance and developing advanced...
SemiQ (previously Global Power Technologies Group) of Lake Forest, CA, USA – which manufacturing SiC components and SiC epiwafers for the development of low-cost, high-frequency, high-temperature and high-efficiency power semiconductor...
For fiscal second-quarter 2020 (ended 29 December 2019), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $239.9m, down 14% on $280.5m a year ago but only 1% on $242.8m last quarter, and at the top of the $234-240m guidance range...
Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) of Sugar Land, TX, USA – a designer and manufacturer of optical components, modules and equipment for fiber access networks in the Internet data-center, cable TV broadband, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and...
For its fiscal third-quarter 2020 (ended 28 December 2019), Qorvo has reported revenue of $869.1m, up 4.4% on $832.3m a year ago and 7.7% on $806.7m last quarter (and above the $840-860m guidance), driven by strength in 5G, Wi-Fi and...
LPE SpA of Milan, Italy, which designs and makes epitaxial reactors for power electronics applications, says that purchase orders for its PE106 silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxy reactor are maintaining strong momentum in the growing SiC...
At Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco, CA, USA (4-6 February), UK-based Plessey, which develops embedded micro-LED technology for augmented-reality and mixed-reality (AR/MR) display applications, has announced a partnership with Axus...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has added the 65-Watt SPL DP90_3 laser to its light detection & ranging (LiDAR) photonics portfolio...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide (InP)-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that designers that want to use its...
At Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco (4-6 February), Vixar Inc of Plymouth, MN, USA (a subsidiary of Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany) has launched its multi-junction vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) technology, with a...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched a new blue high-power laser to expand the range of options available to manufacturers of show lasers and stage spotlights...
For fiscal first-quarter 2020 (ended 27 December 2019), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $896.1m. This is down 7.8% on $972m a year ago....
At Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco, CA, USA (4-6 February), UK-based Plessey, which develops embedded micro-LED technology for augmented-reality and mixed-reality (AR/MR) display applications, has announced a partnership with...
Comtech Telecommunications Corp says that in fiscal second-quarter 2020 its subsidiary Comtech PST Corp of Melville, NY, USA, which is part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment, received a $3.1m contract for high-power amplifier...
At Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco, CA, USA, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France unveiled a silicon nitride (Si3N4) 200mm platform for developing ultralow-loss, high-power photonics in ultraviolet (UV)...
Empower RF Systems Inc of Inglewood, CA and Holbrook, NY, USA (which produces RF and microwave power amplifiers for defense, commercial and industrial applications) says that its new model 2176 is a compact high-power gallium nitride on...
The UK’s University of Sheffield has officially launched the spin-off company EpiPix Ltd, which is developing and commercializing micro-LED technology for photonics applications such as micro-displays for portable smart devices,...
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications) is sampling high-power semiconductor optical...
BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Sydney, Australia – which develops remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) technology for the manufacture of high-performance semiconductor devices – says that its head of epitaxy, Dr Josh Brown, is...
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd and its ultraviolet (UV) LED product manufacturing subsidiary Seoul Viosys Co Ltd have showcased Micro Clean LED, a single-pixel RGB micro-LED technology that enables the design of...
Together with Berlin-based Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) in the German Pavilion (booth 4545) at Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco, CA, USA (4-6 February), UVphotonics NT GmbH – a spin-off...
In booth #1427 SPIE Photonics West 2020 and in booth #8131 at BiOS Expo (part of Photonics West) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (1-6 February), engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA,...
Altum RF of Eindhoven, The Netherlands (a start-up that designs high-performance millimeter-wave to digital solutions for next-generation markets and applications) has been certified (by TÜV Nederland, part of the international TÜV NORD...
AKHAN Semiconductor Inc of Gurnee, IL, USA – which was founded in 2013 and specializes in the fabrication and application of lab-grown, electronics-grade diamond as functional semiconductors – has been issued a patent by the United...
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Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has introduced what it claims is the highest-performance wideband power amplifier (PA)...
For fourth-quarter 2019, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France – which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells – has reported revenue of €12.7m, almost doubling from €6.8m last quarter...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that Glenda Dorchak, an experienced corporate operating executive and director, has been appointed to its board of directors...
Singapore-based silicon photonic (SiPh) foundry services provider CompoundTek Pte Ltd, has launched its maiden SiPh test facility, believed to be Southeast Asia’s first site offering production and engineering test services accessible to...
Flisom AG of Niederhasli, Switzerland – which was founded in 2005 as a spin-off of the Solid-State Physics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and has the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and...
Singulus Technologies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany (which makes production equipment for the optical disc and solar sectors) says that its customer Bengbu Design and Research Institute of Glass Industry Co Ltd, a subsidiary of...
A new research center targeting computing, communication, sensing and imaging technologies has been launched by the UK’s University of Sheffield. Officially opened by alumnus Lord Jim O’Neill (chair of Chatham House, Royal Institute of...
Nitride Semiconductor Co Ltd of Tokushima, Japan says that it has won a patent infringement lawsuit against RayVio Corp of Haywood, CA, USA, which is commercializing deep-ultraviolet (UV) LEDs and consumer disinfection solutions for...
The epitaxy growth equipment market for ‘More than Moore’ devices was worth nearly $940m in 2019, and is expected to exceed $6bn by 2025 (in an aggressive scenario), according to Yole Développement’s technology & market report ‘Epitaxy...
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd of Tokyo, Japan has agreed to license the patented gallium nitride (GaN)-related technology of fabless firm Qromis Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA (spun off from Micron Technology in 2015) as Shin-Etsu moves ahead...
Shuji Nakamura, a professor of materials and of electrical and computer engineering at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been selected to receive the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 2020 Award for the Industrial...
Electronics company TDK Corp of Tokyo, Japan says that subsidiary TDK Ventures Inc has added to its growing portfolio of companies by investing in SLD Laser of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (a spin-off from LED lighting firm Soraa...
United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS), which designs and produces RF and millimeter-wave components and ICs at its facilities in Orsay, France and Ulm, Germany, says that the Pathwave ADS process design kit (PDK) for its 0.25µm gallium...
Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA has introduced high-speed vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) on its vertically integrated 150mm gallium arsenide (GaAs) technology...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (a fabless developer of gallium nitride-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications) says that Siemens is integrating part of its Simatic Micro-Drive...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) in Freiburg, Germany has developed a metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (MOS-HEMT) — replacing the Schottky barrier of a conventional indium gallium...