A new DC-DC power converter is superior to previous designs and paves the way for more efficient, reliable and sustainable energy storage and conversion solutions. The Kobe University development can efficiently interface with a wide...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that in Q3 and Q4/2023 Wolfspeed Inc of Durham, NC, USA — which makes silicon carbide (SiC) materials and power semiconductor devices — placed multiple-tool...
Virtual Forest of Bengaluru, India (an electronics design company specializing in motor control and human interface technologies for consumer appliances, fluid movement and mobility) has adopted the GaNFast power integrated circuits (IC)...
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), mainly used as the power of computer, communication and consumer electronic products, require higher energy density, longer cycling life, faster-charging capability, and a broader operating temperature range...
The energy demands of today's ubiquitous small electronic devices—including sensors, data transmitters, medical implants and 'wearable' consumer products such as Fitbits—can no longer be met by chemical batteries alone. This gap can be...
The light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) can be fabricated in a sustainable and cost-effective way on both rigid and flexible surfaces making it suitable for a broad range of applications, like illumination, health care, and...
Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) has announced the successful evaluation of the submitted semiconductor pilot line proposals and has started negotiations with four consortia, targeting the signing of corresponding agreements later this...
Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has introduced new blue and true green surface-mount LEDs in the ultra-compact MiniLED package. Measuring 2.2mm x 1.3mm x 1.4mm, the Vishay Semiconductors VLMB2332T1U2-08 blue and...
Singulus Technologies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany (which makes production equipment for the optical disc and solar sectors) has introduced the TIMARIS STM modular high-vacuum sputtering system, which is said to offer significant progress...
Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC announced Thursday a nearly 9 percent increase in net profits in the first quarter of 2024, buoyed by global demand for its microchips used to power everything from mobile phones to AI technology.
A new study from NC State University combines three-dimensional embroidery techniques with machine learning to create a fabric-based sensor that can control electronic devices through touch. The paper is published in the journal Device.
A collaboration between TriEye Ltd of Tel Aviv, Israel and Vertilas GmbH of Garching bei München, Germany has led to the development of a joint technology demonstrator that integrates TriEye’s Raven short-wave infrared (SWIR) image...
A research group led by Prof. Ge Ziyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a key strategy for optimizing guest components to minimize non-radiative voltage losses...
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany is supplying its power semiconductor devices to inverter and energy storage system maker FOXESS of Shanghai, China (founded in 2019). Specifically, Infineon will provide CoolSiC MOSFETs 1200V,...
Independent deep-tech venture capital fund PhotonVentures says that its second fundraising round of over €15m has been completed, bringing the fund’s total to the targeted €75m, following the first €60m round led by PhotonDelta and...
ams OSRAM GmbH of Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany has joined forces with Malaysia-based automotive LED maker DOMINANT Opto Technologies in a strategic partnership aimed at integrating ams OSRAM’s Open System Protocol (OSP) into...
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) resonators have been widely used in wireless communication below 2 GHz. However, as wireless communication evolves into 5G and 6G, with the new frequency bands above 3 GHz and bandwidth exceeding 500 MHz,...
A team from the Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL)-iTEAM of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the company iPRONICS have designed and manufactured a revolutionary chip for the telecommunications sector, data centers and...
SweGaN AB of Linköping, Sweden has entered a strategic partnership with South Korea-based RFHIC Corp, which designs and manufactures GaN RF & microwave high-power semiconductor components and hybrid modules for applications in wireless...
Chicony Power Technology Co Ltd of New Taipei, Taiwan has announced the winners of its Annual Partner Awards, honoring Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany as its 2023 ‘GaN Strategic Partner of the Year’...
A team of South Korean scientists led by Professor KIM Dae-Hyeong of the Center for Nanoparticle Research within the Institute for Basic Science has pioneered a novel approach to stretchable displays. The team announced the first...
Researchers developing the next generation of computing technology aim to bring some light to the field—literally. Optical computing, which relies on particles of light called photons, is expected to provide alternatives to traditional...
Micro-LED display startup Q-Pixel Inc of Los Angeles, CA, USA has achieved what it claims is the highest-resolution active-matrix color display: 3K x 1.5K resolution in a screen of ~1.1cm x 0.6cm...
Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult has issued its annual report for the financial year 2022–23, highlighting progress in its two focus areas — Net Zero and Future Telecoms — and describing how it has helped industry to...
Materials, networking and laser technology firm Coherent Corp of Saxonburg, PA, USA has secured $15m in funding from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022 that provided the US...
A new methodology developed by scientists from Japan allows for the precise activation of integrated sensors by manipulating the droplets' locations, thus detecting capacitance changes to estimate their positions without the need for...
Controlling heat flow is key to enhancing performance in a wide variety of systems. In electronic devices, such as mobile phones or any type of processor, overheating decreases their performance and reduces their lifetime. All these...
A new £1.6m facility to help accelerate electrification across the UK has officially been opened at the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult in Newport, South Wales...
Epiwafer and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has announced an expansion of its partnership with Taiwan-based compound semiconductor wafer foundry Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) with a multi-year supply...
When scuba divers need to say "I'm okay" or "Shark!" to their dive partners, they use hand signals to communicate visually. But sometimes these movements are difficult to see.
For its fiscal third-quarter 2024 (to end-February), semiconductor production test and reliability qualification equipment supplier Aehr Test Systems of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $7.56m, more than halving from $17.2m a...
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a digital display screen where the LEDs themselves react to touch, light, fingerprints and the user's pulse, among other things. Their results, published in Nature Electronics,...
Governor Phil Scott has reiterated his support for Vermont’s Tech Hub V-GaN by devoting resources to gallium nitride (GaN)-related activities in the State...
Gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) power solutions firm Innoscience says that it firmly denounces the accusations made on 13 March by Infineon Technologies in a patent infringement lawsuit against three Innoscience entities...
Houqiang Fu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, has received a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA — which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) and integrated circuits for power management applications — has launched...
AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA — which makes gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium phosphide (InP) and germanium (Ge) substrates and raw materials — says that it expects to report revenue of $22.4–22.7m for first-quarter 2024, up from $19.4m a...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany has received the Gold Supplier Award from China-based chipmaker BOE HC SemiTek for their collaboration on micro-LED technology. The partnership spans more than...
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has begun shipping samples of a DFB-CAN distributed feedback laser diode with built-in wavelength monitor. The new light source — reckoned to be the industry’s first to use the inexpensive TO-56CAN...
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) of Freiburg, Germany has developed single-mode gallium antimonide (GaSb) VECSELs with what are reckoned to be best-in-class output powers of up to 2.4W, enabling quantum...
At the Optical Fiber Communication conference (OFC 2024) in San Diego, CA, USA (26–28 March), Adtran Inc of Huntsville, AL, USA (which provides open, disaggregated networking and communications solutions for voice, data, video and...
Teledyne e2v HiRel Electronics of Milpitas, CA, USA (part of the Teledyne Defense Electronics Group that provides solutions, sub-systems and components to the space, transportation, defense and industrial markets) has released the...
Gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) power solutions firm Innoscience (Zhuhai) Technology Co Ltd of Suzhou, China says that it welcomes two decisions of 20 March by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to institute a review of...
The Taiwan chip giant TSMC has agreed to build a third semiconductor factory in Arizona, raising its total investment in the United States to $65 billion, US officials said Monday.
Atomic layer etching (ALE) specialist AlixLabs AB of Stockholm, Sweden (which was spun off from Lund University in 2019) says that the European Union Intellectual Property Office has granted a certification of registration for its...
A team of materials scientists and engineers from Donghua University, in China, and the National University of Singapore, has developed a type of fiber that does not rely on chips or batteries to convert visual signals to digital...