Altum RF of Eindhoven, The Netherlands (which designs RF, microwave and millimeter-wave semiconductors) has announced a two-year contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) under the ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications...
Silicon carbide (SiC) once thrived amid substrate shortages. However, according to DIGITIMES Asia, 2024 saw a significant shift where Chinese manufacturers dramatically ramped up production, resulting in a collapse of prices for...
Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA is previewing several breakthroughs in booth 129 (Hall C3) at electronica 2024 at Trade Fair Center Messe München,...
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a new way to align 3D semiconductor chips by shining a laser through concentric metalenses patterned on the chips to produce a hologram. Their work, published in Nature...
In recent years, engineers have developed a wide range of increasingly sophisticated sensors for robotic, portable, wearable and even implantable monitoring. The data collected by these sensors can then be analyzed using state-of-the-art...
Pfeiffer Vacuum of Aßlar, Germany, a member of the Busch Group headquartered in Maulburg, Baden-Württemberg (in the tri-country region of Germany, France and Switzerland), has introduced its new name and refreshed logo, marking its...
Epiwafer and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has appointed Mark Cubitt to its board as an independent non-executive director and (in first-half 2025, following a period of transition with current chair Phil Smith) as...
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 —...
Led by Dr Andreas Fiedler at Germany’s Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (IKZ), the ‘All-GO-HEMT’ project aims to develop modulation-doped β-(AlxGa1-x)2O3/Ga2O3 heterostructures that exhibit high...
ams OSRAM GmbH of Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany has unveiled its new OSLON UV 3535. Serving the growing demand for mercury-free and efficient UV-C disinfection and treatment solutions, the UV-C LED offers 115mW output power...
The ideal material for interfacing electronics with living tissue is soft, stretchable, and just as water-loving as the tissue itself—in short, a hydrogel. Semiconductors, the key materials for bioelectronics such as pacemakers,...
Germany-based ZF Friedrichshafen AG (one of the world’s largest suppliers to the automotive industry) intends to withdraw from the projected $3bn silicon carbide (SiC) device fabrication plant and R&D center in Ensdorf, Saarland, Germany...
Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc (TI) has begun production of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power semiconductors at its factory in Aizu, Japan. Coupled with its existing GaN manufacturing in Dallas, Texas, TI will internally manufacture...
Market research firm TrendForce notes that, according to a report by China’s CCTV Finance, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has begun restructuring its business, as the semiconductor division has decided to withdraw from the mainstream...
If a phone or other electronic device were made of soft materials, how would that change its use? Would it be more durable? If hospital health monitoring equipment were made of less rigid components, would it make it easier for patients...
As technology advances, the limitations of conventional electronic computers are becoming increasingly apparent, especially when tackling complex computational challenges. NP-complete problems, which grow exponentially with size,...
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things have progressed rapidly, driving advancements in areas like speech recognition, image classification in autonomous vehicles, and large language models like ChatGPT....
Toray Industries Inc of Tokyo, Japan has developed materials and technologies for mounting indium phosphide (InP) and other optical semiconductors used in silicon photonics on silicon substrates...
US chipmaker Wolfspeed and the auto supplier ZF have put plans for a semiconductor factory in Germany on ice, local officials said Wednesday, striking another blow to Berlin's chipmaking ambitions.
Two new kinds of on-skin electronics created by Cornell University researchers allow users to build and customize them directly on the body—with potential applications in biometric sensing, medical monitoring, interactive prosthetic...
Many industrial applications are transitioning to higher power levels with minimized power losses, which can be achieved through increased DC link voltage. Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany has hence addressed this challenge by...
Celestial AI of Santa Clara, CA, USA, the creator of the Photonic Fabric, has acquired silicon photonics intellectual property from Rockley Photonics Ltd (including worldwide issued and pending patents)...
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...
Accurately diagnosing the state of electric vehicle (EV) batteries is essential for their efficient management and safe use. KAIST researchers have developed a new technology that can diagnose and monitor the state of batteries with high...
ams OSRAM GmbH of Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany has introduced its new IR:6 infrared (IR) LED chip technology, which increases brightness by up to 35% and efficiency by up to 42% compared with the existing chip technology used...
Comptek Solutions Oy of Turku, Finland (which specializes in III-V compound semiconductor quantum surface engineering) has completed the installation of its pilot line, after a two-year project funded by the European Innovation Council...
On the EnerConnect project, researchers at Fraunhofer IZM are testing bidirectional blocking gallium nitride (GaN) transistors to design a system that could be used with the next generation of active converters and rectifiers. The...
Themed ‘Innovation and Collaboration: Powering Sustainable Exponential Growth’, SEMICON Europa 2024 is gathering industry experts at Messe München in Munich, Germany (12–15 November) for insights into the latest innovations and trends in...
Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system maker Riber S.A. of Bezons, France says that it has sold an MBE 49 GaN production system (for delivery in 2025) to a European customer that aims to enhance its capacity for producing gallium nitride...
At the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2024) in Phoenix, Arizona (20–24 October), gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA is introducing...
The Northeast Microelectronics Coalition (NEMC) Hub has announced $1,038,133 in grants to 13 companies through its Powering Regional Opportunities for Prototyping Microelectronics (PROPEL) manufacturing program, which was launched in...
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are neuromorphic transistors made of carbon-based materials that combine both electronic and ionic charge carriers. These transistors could be particularly effective solutions for amplifying...
At the Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile’s SIA Vision 2024 international congress in Paris, France (16–17 October), ams OSRAM GmbH of Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany has launched EVIYOS HD 25 gen2 as the latest generation...
Lynred of Grenoble, France — which designs and manufactures infrared (IR) sensors for aerospace, defense and commercial applications — has completed its biggest space contract so far, worth tens of millions of euros. After beginning in...
The US Department of Commerce have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms for Infinera Corp of San Jose, CA, USA — a vertically integrated manufacturer of open optical networking systems and optical semiconductors — to...
Specialty semiconductor and performance materials producer 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada says that solar cells produced by its subsidiary AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH of Heilbronn, Germany are enabling the Europa Clipper, NASA’s...
Wolfspeed Inc of Durham, NC, USA — which makes silicon carbide (SiC) materials and power semiconductor devices — says that Thomas Seifert and Woody Young have been nominated to its board of directors. Their nominations will be considered...
For its fiscal first-quarter 2025 (to 30 August 2024), semiconductor production test and reliability qualification equipment supplier Aehr Test Systems of Fremont, CA, USA has reported revenue of $13.1m, down 21% on $16.6m last quarter...
Specialty semiconductor and performance materials producer 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada says that its subsidiary AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH of Heilbronn, Germany has completed its previously announced 2024 production capacity...
SuperLight Photonics of Enschede, the Netherlands — a spin-off from the University of Twente that is developing a wideband laser light source for measurement and detection applications — has announced the strategic investment of...
Active electronics—components that can control electrical signals—usually contain semiconductor devices that receive, store, and process information. These components, which must be made in a clean room, require advanced fabrication...
The US Department of Commerce and Wolfspeed Inc of Durham, NC, USA — which makes silicon carbide (SiC) materials and power semiconductor devices — have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) for up to $750m in...
To make electric mobility accessible to a broader market by combining affordability with high performance and efficiency, Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany is introducing the HybridPACK Drive G2 Fusion, establishing a new power...
A research team has developed a bismuth telluride (Bi-Te) based thermoelectric material with artificially formed atomic-scale defects and proposed a solution to improve its properties in order to harness wasted thermal energy. This is a...
Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA has announced GaNSlim, a new generation of highly integrated GaN power ICs that will further simplify and speed the...
Over the past few years, major companies around the world have been investing in 8-inch silicon carbide (SiC) production lines, and these investments are now gradually becoming operational, notes market research firm TrendForce in a...
South Korea-based Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd and its affiliate Seoul Viosys says that the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued a judgment ordering a sales ban, recall and destruction of products infringing Seoul’s ‘No Wire’ (WICOP)...
The cancellation of Apple’s project at the beginning of 2024 has shaken confidence in micro-LED technology, leaving the industry at a critical juncture. As delays continue and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology advances, the...
Netherlands-based independent deep-tech venture capital fund PhotonVentures has received investment from national financing and development institution Invest-NL and a group of new private investors, with Invest-NL contributing €5m. This...
TriEye Ltd of Tel Aviv, Israel — which claims to have pioneered the first CMOS-based shortwave infrared (SWIR) image-sensing solutions — and HLJ Technology of Hsinchu, Taiwan — which was founded in 2001 and provides vertical-cavity...