• ELENA project develops Europe’s first LNOI substrates for photonic integrated circuits, completing supply chain
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program as a collaborative research and innovation initiative (grant agreement n°101016138), the recently concluded 42-month project ELENA (‘European electro-optic and nonlinear...
  • Self-healing electronic material uses graphene and polymer blend to mimic skin
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    Researchers at DTU have developed a new kind of electronic material that behaves almost exactly like human skin. The substance could be useful in soft robotics, medicine, and health care.
  • EPC Space launches 300V rad-hard GaN FET
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    EPC Space LLC of Haverhill, MA, USA (which provides high-reliability radiation-hardened enhancement-mode gallium nitride-on-silicon transistors and ICs for power management in space and other harsh environments) has launched the...
  • Silvaco and Fraunhofer ISIT collaborate on developing GaN device technology
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Silvaco Group Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA — which provides technology computer-aided design (TCAD), electronic design automation (EDA) software and semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) for process and device development — has...
  • MIT-led team develops low-cost, scalable process for integrating GaN transistors onto silicon CMOS chips
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Gallium nitride (GaN) will likely be key for the next generation of high-speed communication systems and the power electronics needed for state-of-the-art data centers, but its high cost and the specialization required to incorporate it...
  • PhotonDelta and Luminate NY collaborate on transatlantic growth network for photonics startups
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Photonic chips industry accelerator PhotonDelta of Eindhoven, the Netherlands (which connects and collaborates with an ecosystem of photonic chip technology organizations worldwide) and Luminate NY of Rochester, NY, USA (the world’s...
  • CSA Catapult to mobilize new UK Semiconductor Centre
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    The UK Government says that Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult will mobilize the new UK Semiconductor Centre (UKSC)...
  • Compute-in-memory chip shows promise for enhanced efficiency and privacy in federated learning systems
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    In recent decades, computer scientists have been developing increasingly advanced machine learning techniques that can learn to predict specific patterns or effectively complete tasks by analyzing large amounts of data. Yet some studies...
  • TNO to construct InP-based photonic chip pilot manufacturing line
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    At the end of this year, research institute TNO (the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research in Delft) will begin constructing a pilot manufacturing line for photonic chips at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. The new...
  • EPC releases compact, high-efficiency 180W GaN buck converter evaluation board for USB PD applications
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    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 released...
  • UMass Lowell assistant professor Anhar Bhuiyan receives Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    The University of Massachusetts Lowell says that Electrical Engineering assistant professor Anhar Bhuiyan is among 36 recipients of this year’s Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards, nationally competitive seed grants for...
  • ROHM’s SiC MOSFET adopted for mass production in Toyota’s new BEV for Chinese market
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    The power module equipped with Japan-based ROHM Co Ltd’s fourth-generation silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET bare chip has been adopted in the traction inverter of Toyota Motor Corp’s new bZ5 crossover-type battery electric vehicle (BEV) for...
  • TU/e establishes new research institute for semiconductors, quantum photonics, and high-tech systems
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) in The Netherlands is establishing a new research institute dedicated to semiconductors, quantum, photonics, and the development of high-tech systems and chips of the future...
  • New laser power converters can transmit power to further, remote destinations
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    From smart grids to the internet of things, the modern world is increasingly reliant on connectivity between electronic devices. Thanks to University of Ottawa researchers, these devices can now be simultaneously connected and powered...
  • 'Soft-touch' approach advances nondestructive testing for micro-LED wafers
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    Tianjin University scientists have developed a pioneering nondestructive testing technology for micro-LED wafers, offering a much-needed solution to a long-standing industry challenge through a novel "soft-touch" approach.
  • Renesas expects $1.7bn loss in first-half 2025 from Wolfspeed restructuring
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Renesas Electronics Corp of Tokyo, Japan says that, as a resuts of entering into a restructuring support agreement with Wolfspeed Inc of Durham, NC, USA and its principal creditors for the financial restructuring of Wolfspeed, it hence...
  • Wolfspeed’s restructuring deal with lenders to reduce debt by 70% and interest payments by 60%
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    As part of its efforts to strengthen its capital structure, Wolfspeed Inc of Durham, NC, USA — which makes silicon carbide (SiC) materials and power semiconductor devices — has entered into a restructuring support agreement (RSA) with...
  • Diamond Technologies acquires Akhan’s asset portfolio, including patents in diamond films.
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Materials innovation company Diamond Technologies Inc (DTI) of Hudson, MA, USA (which is developing and commercializing diamond-based solutions for semiconductors, aerospace, defense, optics and industrial applications) has acquired the...
  • US Navy funds Aeluma to accelerate development and commercialization of high-speed photodetectors for optical interconnects
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Aeluma Inc of Goleta, CA, USA — which develops compound semiconductor materials on large-diameter substrates — has announced a contract with the US Navy that could accelerate development of high-speed photodetectors for government and...
  • OKI and NTT establish mass-production technology for high-power terahertz devices by heterogeneous material bonding
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Tokyo-based Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd, in collaboration with Japan-based NTT Innovative Devices Corp, has established mass-production technology for high-power terahertz devices using its proprietary crystal film bonding (CFB)...
  • Tagore launches compact, high-power RF receiver front-end module
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Chicago-based fabless firm Tagore Technology Inc — which was founded in 2011 and has design centers in Arlington Heights, IL, USA and Kolkata, India developing gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology for RF and power management...
  • 3D chip stacking method created to overcome traditional semiconductor limitations
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    A novel power supply technology for 3D-integrated chips has been developed by employing a three-dimensionally stacked computing architecture consisting of processing units placed directly above stacks of dynamic random access memory.
  • Ascent signs master services agreement to provide NOVI Space with rollable PV array blankets
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA – which designs and makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules that can be integrated into consumer products, off-grid...
  • Ascent raises CIGS PV production-scale efficiency record from 14% to 15.7%
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA says that its flexible thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) photovoltaic (PV) technology has reached record energy conversion efficiency of 15.7% (AM0) at production scale....
  • Coherent launches compact, air-cooled 500W diode laser system
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Materials, networking and laser technology firm Coherent Corp of Saxonburg, PA, USA has launched the COMPACT EVOLUTION AC, a next-generation compact, air-cooled 500W diode laser system for polymer welding...
  • Applied Materials and CEA-Leti expand joint lab to drive innovation in specialty chips
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Process equipment maker Applied Materials Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA and micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France have announced the next phase of their longstanding collaboration to accelerate innovation in...
  • University of Michigan synthesizes high-quality 2D molybdenum disulfide using Veeco’s Fiji ALD system
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Using the Fiji G2 plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) system of epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA, the University of Michigan has reported the ALD of molybdenum...
  • Riber partners with Denmark’s NQCP, initiating phase II of ROSIE
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system maker Riber S.A. of Bezons, France has signed a three-year collaborative partnership with the Denmark-based Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP), a research initiative launched by...
  • Marktech unveils next-gen high-efficiency 25µm red dot RCLEDs for ultraprecise aiming with low power draw
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Marktech Optoelectronics Inc of Latham, NY, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of optoelectronics components and assemblies, has released its new high-efficiency 25µm-diameter resonant-cavity light-emitting diodes...
  • UGREEN adds first 500W GaN charger to Nexode series
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Hong Kong-based UGREEN (which provides charging accessories) has unveiled the Nexode 500W 6-Port GaN Desktop Fast Charger, which is claimed to be the first 500W gallium nitride (GaN) charger engineered to simultaneously charge six...
  • Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon
    Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    Image sensors are built into every smartphone and every digital camera. They distinguish colors in a similar way to the human eye. In our retinas, individual cone cells recognize red, green and blue (RGB). In image sensors, individual...
  • Tiny gallium nitride transistors boost chip speed and efficiency in new 3D design
    Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    The advanced semiconductor material gallium nitride will likely be key for the next generation of high-speed communication systems and the power electronics needed for state-of-the-art data centers.
  • Fraunhofer IAF develops semi-automated manufacturing process for cost-efficient resonantly tunable quantum cascade laser modules
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Resonantly tunable quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are high-performance laser light sources for a wide range of spectroscopy applications in the mid-infrared (MIR) range. Their high brilliance enables minimal measurement times for more...
  • Superconducting circuit could one day replace semiconductor components in quantum computing systems
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    In 2023, about 4.4% (176 terawatt-hours) of total energy consumption in the United States was by data centers that are essential for processing large quantities of information. Of that 176 TWh, approximately 100 TWh (57%) was used by CPU...
  • Coherent launches 18W 880nm single-emitter laser diode
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Materials, networking and laser technology firm Coherent Corp of Saxonburg, PA, USA has launched the SES18-880A-190-10, a high-power 880nm single-emitter laser diode on sub mount, designed specifically for high-efficiency,...
  • Wales Tech Week 2025 adds Vishay Intertechnology as Gold Partner
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Discrete semiconductor and passive electronic component maker Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has partnered with Wales Tech Week 2025, which is taking place at the International Convention Centre (ICC) Wales in Newport on...
  • Turning trash into treasure: How microwaves are revolutionizing e-waste recycling
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    You may not have heard of tantalum, but chances are you're holding some right now. It's an essential component in our cell phones and laptops, and currently, there's no effective substitute. Even if you plan to recycle your devices after...
  • DOWA launches high-power SMD operating at 1040–1900nm SWIR wavelengths
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Dowa Electronic Materials Co Ltd of Tokyo, Japan (a subsidiary of Dowa Holdings Co Ltd) has launched a surface-mountable device (SMD) in the peak wavelength range of 1040–1900nm made with its high-efficiency SWIR (short-wavelength...
  • Imec and Ghent University present fully integrated, single-chip microwave photonics system for compact and versatile signal processing
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Nanoelectronics research center imec of Leuven, Belgium and two imec research groups at Ghent University (the Photonics Research Group and IDlab) have demonstrated a fully integrated single-chip microwave photonics system, combining...
  • BluGlass to supply Indian Department of Defence with GaN lasers
    Friday, June 6, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia — which develops and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) blue laser diodes based on its proprietary low-temperature, low-hydrogen remote-plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) technology — is now...
  • Renesas abandoning SiC production plans amid Chinese price war and Wolfspeed uncertainty
    Thursday, June 5, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    According to a report by Nikkei, Renesas Electronics Corp of Tokyo, Japan is abandoning its plans to produce silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors for electric vehicles (EVs), due to slowing growth in the EV market — coupled with a...
  • Micro-gravity manufacturing firm Space Forge to be CISM’s first incubation client
    Thursday, June 5, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Swansea University has signed a deal that makes Space Forge Ltd of Cardiff, South Wales, UK (which is pioneering space-based advanced materials manufacturing via fully returnable satellites) the first firm to be physically hosted in the...
  • Laser-induced graphene enables greener, flexible hybrid circuit manufacturing
    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    Boise State University researchers have unveiled a cutting-edge approach to manufacturing flexible hybrid circuits—reducing costs, waste, and environmental impact. Their work leverages the properties of laser-induced graphene and was...
  • WIN launches linearity optimized 0.12µm GaN power process
    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    WIN Semiconductors Corp of Taoyuan City, Taiwan — which provides pure-play gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) wafer foundry services for the wireless, infrastructure and networking markets — has launched its NP12-1B, a...
  • Electronic ink enables room-temperature printing of circuits capable of switching between rigid and soft modes
    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    Variable-stiffness electronics are at the forefront of adaptive technology, offering the ability for a single device to transition between rigid and soft modes depending on its use case. Gallium, a metal known for its high rigidity...
  • Indium Corp joins Virginia Tech’s Center for Power Electronics Systems consortium
    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Indium Corp of Clinton, NY, USA (a supplier of refined gallium, germanium, indium and other specialty technology metals) has joined Virginia Tech’s Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), an industry consortium that supports power...
  • Navitas and BrightLoop partners on next-gen hydrogen fuel-cell charging
    Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA has partnered with BrightLoop Converters of Paris, France (which develops and manufactures high-efficiency,...
  • SuperLight partners with ProCareLight to expand presence in Iberian market
    Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from Semiconductor Today News
    SuperLight Photonics of Enschede, the Netherlands — a spin-off from the University of Twente that is developing a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) wideband laser light source for measurement and detection applications — has announced a...
  • Enhanced efficiency in tin-based perovskite solar cells: Optimizing the electron transport layer
    Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    Perovskite solar cells are gaining attention as the next generation of solar technology due to their high efficiency, flexibility, and potential for printing. Although lead-based perovskite has been used in high-efficiency solar cells,...
  • Self-healing circuit boards offer new path to reducing global e-waste
    Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from Phys.org: Semiconductors News
    Between upgrades and breakdowns to cellphones, tablets, laptops, and appliances, so many electronics are getting tossed in the trash that they've taken on a name of their own: e-waste.
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