An interdisciplinary research team including mechanical science and engineering professor Mickey Clemon from the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is investigating cooling methods for heat...
In cooperation with Erlangen-based Fraunhofer IISB (Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology) and Neuss-based bimanu Cloud Solutions GmbH in Germany, Herzogenrath-based deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE is leading a...
Semiconductor processing is notoriously challenging. It is one of the most intricate feats of modern engineering due to the extreme precision required and the hundreds of steps involved, such as etching and layering, to make even a...
When gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA announced a strategic partnership for Taiwanese foundry Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (PSMC) to...
Mouser Electronics Inc (a Berkshire Hathaway company) has announced a global distribution agreement with Ampleon B.V. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, which manufactures radio frequency power devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) and LDMOS...
Murata company pSemi Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency (RF), analog and mixed-signal solutions – has announced leadership changes and organizational restructuring to support its evolving business strategy...
Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany says that its scalable gallium nitride (GaN) manufacturing on 300mm wafers is on track for first samples to be available to customers as of fourth-quarter 2025, positioning it to expand its...
A research team led by Prof. Wang Long from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a highly stretchable and conductive foam sensor with an ultra-wide...
A recent study reports (Al,Ga,Sc)N thin films with record-high scandium levels, with exciting potential for ultra-low-power memory devices, as reported by researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo). Using reactive...
The 38-year-old Durham, North Carolina, semiconductor supplier Wolfspeed filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, officially starting a reorganization the company says will allow it to shed billions in debt.
Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA has announced a strategic partnership with Taiwanese foundry Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (PSMC) to...
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 — says that...
NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and develops and manufactures high-power industrial blue lasers — has reported progress in its strategic transformation, including developments within its planned Defense &...
Wolfspeed Inc of Durham, NC, USA — which makes silicon carbide (SiC) materials and power semiconductor devices — has taken the next step to implement its previously announced restructuring support agreement (RSA) with key lenders,...
A research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), has developed a novel dry adhesive technology that allows everything from microscale electronic components to common household materials to be easily attached and...
Flexible integrated circuit (FlexIC) designer and manufacturer Pragmatic Semiconductor Ltd of Cambridge, UK has appointed John Quigley as executive VP (EVP) of engineering with responsibility for technology development, IC design and...
The South Wales-based compound semiconductor cluster CSconnected, in partnership with Cardiff Capital Region (CCR), has announced the first four successful applicants to its £1m Supply Chain Development Programme, aimed at strengthening...
Traditional military training often relies on standardized methods, which has limited the provision of optimized training tailored to individual combatants' characteristics or specific combat situations. To address this, a research team...
GlobalFoundries of Malta, NY, (GF, the only US-based pure-play foundry with a global manufacturing footprint including facilities in the USA, Europe and Singapore) plans to invest another $3bn in its expansion of semiconductor...
III–V Epi Ltd of Glasgow, Scotland, UK — which provides a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) service for custom compound semiconductor wafer design, manufacturing, test and characterization —...
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the USA have fabricated blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) down to an unprecedented 250nm in size, a critical step for next-generation technologies like...
The use of electronics in various forms is on the rise, from wearable devices like smartwatches to implantable devices like body-implanted sensors, skin-worn smart patches, and disposable monitoring devices. These devices, which are...
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 unveiled the...
Fabless company Wise-integration of Hyeres, France — which was spun off from CEA-Leti in 2020 and designs and develops digital control for gallium nitride (GaN) and GaN IC-based power supplies — has released to production its first fully...
When electronic devices overheat, they can slow down, malfunction, or stop working altogether. This heat is mainly caused by energy lost as electrons move through a material—similar to friction in a moving machine.
EFFECT Photonics b.v. – a spin off from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) in The Netherlands that provides next-generation coherent optical solutions for data-center and edge networks – has raised an additional $24m as part of...
InnoScience (Suzhou) Technology Holding Co Ltd — which manufactures gallium nitride on silicon (GaN) power chips on 8” silicon wafers — and Midea (the largest producer of home appliances and industrial robots) have reached a strategic...
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 — has...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...